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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Sandwich Existence

    After wearily ascending the lighted stair,
    An unconscious slamming of the opened gate
    Awakens the dogs to nervously bark
    At their master’s alien presence;
    Babbling patronizingly,
    While already warm and secure
    Mentally, behind the closed door.
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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 Rebirth of Time

    Time dissolves
    When Knowing
    PresentFuturePast
    And Breathing
    Inside the moment
    
    Now	 Becoming
    Here     There
    Simultaneously
    Everywhere
    
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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 One

    The dust and ashes
    Of fear and freud
    Have been laid to rest
    With fame and fortune
    
    From a common grave
    The ashes of time
    And dust of Being
    Will assemble to Birth
    The ONE
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Faces of the City

    Blankly walking the shadowed streets
    Where this world and that too often meet,
    A feeling of Truth’s impassioned rage
    Suddenly jolts and jars the bars
    Surrounding the serenely caged.
    
    Cracked pavement lines the faces
    Groping for any reality
    Which produces ways to end
    These sleepless nights and wakeful days.
    
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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.

    Immaculate Conception V

    As motion finally finds rest
    The Golden Spheres of Liquid Light
    Begin weaving a chrysalis
    To encase the Child and its host
    In a protective envelope
    Creating an environment
    For the expanding Consciousness
    To attain OctoAwareness
    Being in perfect Harmony
    With the Universal Heartbeat
    Of the emerging Cosmic Age
    
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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
    
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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.

    For Brenda

           Poetry
    Is the fragrance
    	Of each moment
           Inhaled
    	During each life
           Exhaled
    	Toward a future
           Envisioned
    	Now
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Amanita Cloud

    For centuries the Sacred Mushroom Ritual
    Has been a vehicle for reaching Eternity.
    We need not risk physical ingestion,
    And the possible effects of its deadly poison,
    If we symbolically see this visual keyhole
    As showing us the way to that other world
    Far beyond our day to day comprehension.
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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 II, iv

    Banners of prejudice
    Maliciously declare
    The misdirected depths
    To which we have fallen;
    Soon foregoing hope
    Of peaceful unity.
    
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