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  • 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.

    Ethereal Love

    Wherever I go,
    It remains so. . .
        At my side
        You walk,
        In my mind
        We talk.
     (more…)

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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.

    The Promise

    As a constant reminder		
    I taped a yellow
    And a blue crocus
    To the inside of my head
    
    Continue to Night of the Living
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Children of the Sun VIII

    Suddenly emboldened
    By the right to deny
    Their internal essence
    They build institutions
    To enhance existence
    And begin to bask
    In the addictive glow
    Of a material comfort
    Sustained for the greater
    By the labor of the lesser
     (more…)

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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.

    Empty Garden

    Yesterday, the thought, if imaginable,
    Would have been quickly dismissed.
    Yet today, I know and can feel
    A complete Emptiness in my head;
    And at this moment, begin to wonder
    Whether I should attempt to fill it
    With something new and meaningful.
     (more…)

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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.

    Night of the Living

    Waking late from the living death,
    I ran naked through moonlit fields.
    A barefoot bath in morning dew
    Reminded me:  I am Alive,
    And not bound by the common dream.
    
    Do not hide behind distant cloud
    Or slip past the dark horizon,
    But return, Mother moon of night,
    To hear my lonely song rising
    From the shadowed valley of sleep.
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Alphabet Parade

    Amber arguments ask answers
    Before blue bereaving berets
    Can change certain colored candles
    Dripping down diners delivering
    Exotic erotic earthly eggrolls
    For foreign film fanatics
    Growing gangrenous garden grapes
    Heavenly helping homemakers
    Identify icy islands (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “The tree in the seed”

    The tree in the seed
    Knows its full maturity
    As our Cosmic Self
    
    Knows its Immortality
    In the zero of silence
    
    (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, I, ii

                      
    We progress beyond thoughts of one
       Inwardly growing hand in hand.
       The sprouting seeds from ego’s hub
       Bring forth trees in desolate sand
    To light the path beyond the sun.
       Together we greet the new day
          Outwardly radiant, and purge
          From self the demon Beelzebub.
          Thwarting greed and desires that surge
       We cleanse the soul, halting decay.
    With death of selfish pride begun
       We don plumes in brilliant array
       Walking and old, yet newfound way.
    
     (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.

    Adieu Once Again

    The veil of history is lifting.
         The mind’s eye opens. . .
              Seeing, feeling, re-experiencing
              The lives we have shared
              And the innumerable times
                   Our paths have crossed;
         The past events race by,
              As we, the minor characters
              In the eternally flowing
                   Play of life—
                   Intermingle.
     (more…)

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