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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.

    Man

    Most males are cold
    Unfeeling
        Individuals. . .?
    
    Possibly this explains
    An ability to relate to women
    And the feelings of love
    We have for them.
     (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 IA, x

    A wedding of diverse forces
       Within the newly evolved Man
       Creates an everlasting fire
       Where the flickering flame began.
    Our journey’s return to the source
       Is often difficultly slow;
          Becoming heaven’s instrument
          We soon lose our earthly desire,
          While donning the sacred garment
       Of His ever eternal flow.
    Once on the straight and narrow course
       The Man Divine must surely grow
       From 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.

    Sonnet to a Flyer

    As we slowly leave the earth to ascend
    Through clouds of our vision, toward infinity,
    The heavens become our companion and friend.
    Vast horizons unfold for eyes to see;
    And while all of nature seems within reach,
    Man’s miniature world begins to be dwarfed
    By Creation’s splendor beyond all speech.
    Behind us the sun sinks in shades of red;
    Twilight brings the last quarter moon in view,
    Darkness descends, stars winking into sight,
    The Milky Way lightens the sky anew,
    Flying east through the timelessness of night.
    Light grows ahead, a new day being born;
    With the sun we rise to heaven this morn.
    
    Continue to The Cul De Sac of Growth
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Begin the painful deprogramming”

    Begin the painful deprogramming
    To find the Balance
    Necessary to recognize Truth
    
    (more…)

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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.

    “Tomorrow – a new day”

    Tomorrow—a new day
    To be dealt with as we will.
    
    A new life’s door is before us,
    Yet we open yesterdoor
    Without thought
    In the habit of our ways.
    
    (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.

    Through Pisces to Aquarius I

                      I
    We began by innocently
    Throwing stones and brandishing clubs.
    Arrows, spears and slings for the hunt
    Soon become swords and catapults;
    Armor, moats and castles surround
    A fearfully huddled people
    That quickly develop methods
    To raise levels of violence.
    Revenge.  Many lives for a life
    Accelerates the race toward death.
     (more…)

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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.

    “The Heavens appear”

    The Heavens appear
    As the cloud cover dissipates.
    
    Full Moon
    Rising in the valley
    Of mountain peaks.
    Light—
    Reflecting on calm river.
    
    Fog forms veils
    On the valley floor—
    Eerily midnight approaches;
    April Full Moon.
    
    (more…)

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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.

    “I want to taste your love”

    I want to taste your love
    As together we become one
    In the warmth and security
    Of each other’s arms and bodies.
    
    While two days will be eternal to us
    We shall experience all in total.
    
    All will end, but only in time’s scope,
    For it will remain forever in our hearts
    And minds as we pass beyond time.
    
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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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