Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Paths I, xi

Once beyond the cyclic madness
   We view the pinnacle ahead,
   Giving thanks for not being listed
   Today among the living dead,
Or those falling in their gladness
   To the games of the charlatan.
      Embody the ever eternal flame
      Uncoiling the torn and twisted
      Ways, for which there is only blame.
   Interpret the Divine Musician
Playing chords that brighten sadness
   And be the Good Samaritan
   In which grows the Natural Man.

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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Through Pisces to Aquarius VIII

       VIII
The door closed to his apartment,
After we shook hands as before;
Yet despite all the small talk shared,
I knew that I had said little
To help him understand my world.
One day I’ll return to visit
This dark city that knows no night,
And attempt to communicate
Thoughts beyond the glass reflections
That surround this skyscraping world.

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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Unsung May

Inside the morning rain
The summer heat of May
Departs on the wind
Whipped white capped lake.  Hail

Dancing to thunder, falls
Through the sky cracking
Lightning striking afternoon
To scatter fragile petals
Over white grass.  Green stems
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

The River of Forgetfulness

Leave all earthly belongings here,
On this still familiar shore,
And nakedly step into the water.
The River of Forgetfulness
Will permanently wash away
All your acquired prejudice;
Releasing worn out opinion
And popular cancerous thought.
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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.
“After you begin”
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    After you begin
Appreciating life
In its entirety,
People seem so busy
In their trivialities—
    Usually involving money.
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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.
Today – Tomorrow
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   Today

Can I totally relate
    My inner feelings
    And experiences
To You?

I think not,
But I must try. . . .                                    
  
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METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

The Thread of Life

Tumbling into the previously impenetrable past,
We grope for the tables and chairs and faces
That for years have cluttered our darkened stage.
The continuous repeating of remembered lines
Finally begins to clear the distorting haze,
And with the glaring footlights rise
All remaining shadows quickly dissolve
Into the emerging childhood scenes.
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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Paths I, iv

             
Love of one can be a vacuum,
   An entangled web zealously spun
   That locks into the narrow sphere
   The unity that is illusion.
When the union grows we resume
   Our direction and walk not crawl
      Up the path to find light of day;
      The million sounds that reach our ear
      Tell of new molds to semi-fired clay.
   In the wind seeds randomly fall
Manifesting flowers in bloom. . .
   Our feelings shared in one and all
   Is the growth toward Love Universal.

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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Paths I, vii

The cherished balance eludes us
   As the scales tip from right to left;
   Again we are disoriented,
   Vacillation leaving us bereft.
This chosen path of exodus
   From a life of material gain
      Is often hazardously steep;
      Methodically it must be tread
      To avoid the bottomless deep.
   With balance finally regained
We gaze at the Light around us,
   And succumbing to total strain
   Sleepily greet the warm falling rain.

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