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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Welcome the Divine Physicians”

    Welcome the Divine Physicians,
    Freely offering their healing powers
    By pouring Gold Rejuvenating Liquid
    Into and on this physical vehicle.
    
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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.

    Wedding Vows

    Let us not talk about Love,
           Except for all Living Things.
    Let us not speak of Marriage,
           Except to the Ideals of Peace
           And Freedom for All.
    Let us not desire commitment,
           Except to One Earth.
     (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.
    
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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.

    “We become strangers to each other”

    We become strangers to each other
    And also to our selves.
    Our paths have strayed
    Although we are together.
    Friendly bonds grow
    To become what they will.
    A painful re-acquaintance is undertaken,
    For we stand at the crossroads—
    Of love?
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “We must never forsake our dreams”

    We must never forsake our Dreams
    For they will find Reality
    The moment we begin living
    In Harmony with Destiny.
    
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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.

    Rising Tide

    Reaching further, cutting deeper,
    The seventh wave violates
    This once peaceful shore,
    And as the chaotic tide rises
    Our secure center trembles and quakes
    In the cold grey dawn of decline.
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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
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Lay your pseudo self”

    Lay your pseudo self       
    On the pyre of worldly ambition,
    Releasing it into the illusory world
    Of its own creation,
    And become consumed 
    In the Phoenix Flame
    Of your True Being;
    Allowing its Reality to Become.
    
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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.

    Epiphany on the Palouse – C. The Oath

    I promise to solemnly wear
    The Joe Friday Only the Facts
    Badge number seven fourteen,
    With mirror, as a reminder
    Of when Mussolini Jones read
    From the Temple balcony:
    Discovering that Poet & Audience
    Were not only One,
    But the same One.  Death to Poetry!
    Became Birth of the Second Law,
    And the NonPoetry Movement.
     (more…)

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