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Featured Poems

  • 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.

    Greetings, My Friend

         Today
    This hand
    Reached out
    
    You withdrew
    Unwilling
    To stretch your hand
    Across the chasm
    Of time and change
    
         Widening
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “The black walnut tree”

    The black walnut tree
    Stands in majestic silence
    Awaiting winter
    
    Knowing that the falling leaves
    Protect its fallen seed fruit
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Insects and birds sing”

    Insects and birds sing
    An autumnal opera
    On Afton Mountain
    
    Passionate in the moment
    With no thought for tomorrow
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Relationships change”

    Relationships change
    Between student and teacher
    When autumn transforms
    
    Green to gold departing leaves
    Feeding the earth      Becoming
    
    (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 II

    Many aeons ago
    As the Sun birthed Venus
    The molten planet Earth
    Began to rapidly cool
    As it found residence
    In the humid orbit
    Older brother Mars
    Previously called home
     (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.

    “Today a feeling has possessed me”

    Today a feeling has possessed me
    Of Life and a Love
    For Man and Nature.
    
    A calm understanding grows
    In a body
    Which a disturbed restlessness
    Once called home.
     (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.

    Dream Fragment 8

    Nightly swaying darkly
    Through catacombs of sleep
    Subterranean lives
    Repeat mumbled questions
    To echoing mirrors
    Answered by meteors
    Showering broken glass
    On the highway of hope
    
    Continue to The Promise
    (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 X

    Listening and learning
    From her older siblings
    She then sought the council
    Of her solar parent
     (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.

    The Stage of Life

    THE STAGE OF LIFE
    
    Emerging
    Through a crack in the mask
    Is Life’s full potential
    Striving to break through
    Beyond a persona
    Wandering in shadows
    To ultimately become
    The One that I AM
    When finally knowing
    I AM One
    With the ONE
    
    
    (more…)

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