Featured Poems
Immaculate Conception IV
The Light generated within Travels up the shining pathway Meeting the descending Light Waves Exploding near the Heart Center Firing the Cross of Creation Sending light through arms out fingers To enhance the transformation Of all life forms on planet Earth (more…)
This Poem can be found in
10 to 17 February Afternoons, 1977 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.One Way or the Other
In the city, Alone Becomes mechanical, For one must Turn off all The corruption And pollution. (more…)
This Poem can be found in
Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.Paths IA, iii
Become one with God in silence And the Light will forever shine To illumine each darkened day With knowledge of our gifts divine. When immersed in His eternal presence The Life Immortal grows within, Opening formerly locked doors So as to view heaven’s stairway To existence forevermore. Love of God is the origin Which sparks the needed diligence To find centered in His doctrine The divine flame which is our twin. (more…)-
This Poem can be found in
10 to 17 February Afternoons, 1977 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.The Child’s Bark
Lurking as a shark Is the dog’s empty bark. It has pierced your soul For tis love she demands Not gravy in the bowl. She is not so unlike us In many ways, For like a child In her innocence she plays. (more…)
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Immaculate Conception I
The Idea of Cosmic Man Carried within each soul at birth Constantly reminds Consciousness Of its duty to generate Sufficient luminosity To invite the Holy Spirit For partnering in conceiving The Celestial Embryo (more…)
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This Poem can be found in
Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.Paths III
Entering His Heavenly Mansion On Ascension’s lifted wings of Light We learn of our newly appointed duty In the ever eternal fight, And manifest the Kingdom’s beauty By sowing Man’s Divine Perfection With Universal Mind, Will and Love, So all may reap the Resurrection To our Life’s Immortal plane above. Continue to Sonnet to a Flyer
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This Poem can be found in
METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
“Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers”
Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers, Limiting the Eagle’s mobility and power. One by one the feathers are taken Making flight practically impossible.
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This Poem can be found in
Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.In Praise of Living
I have awaited the moment When you honestly thought of Living And not dying before your time. That this idea bloomed in winter With no trace of snow on the ground, Or small patches of blue sky seen Through the purgatorial grey, Is the bold action possible Only when days become windows. (more…)
New Year’s Eve – SwanSong
SwanSong Out of the grey sky lake The six joined by two Appear near the islands Flying Not ducks not geese Eight Winging in a line Tip to wingtip at eye level Contact with one Recognition Then connection with the gliding White feathering Swans approaching The shoreline and my doorstep (more…)