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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.

    “Help is coming”

    Help is coming—
    It is in your mind
    If you stop your games
    And find the time.
    
    And if you look
    You still can see
    Your non-existence
    Must cease to be.
    
    (more…)

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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.
    
    (more…)

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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

    The One - New, First Edition available January 2013.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    A Map

    I AM the Eighth Energetic
    Located at the nexus point
    Within the Cross of Creation
    Now ready for You to Open
    
    Find it   Know it and Realize
    The One You are Destined to Be
    
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “I Am That I Am”

    I Am That I Am
    Preceded the Fall of Man
    And will always Be
    
    The fulcrum of existence
    To project identity
    
    (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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  • 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, iv

    Whenever the soul’s descent ceases
       The building process can begin
       To revive the inner strength lost
       When mortal darkness grew within.
    With hope commences the release 
       From our soul’s rebirthing desire
          And the appeal for earthly gain,
          Which was purchased at any cost
          And whose pleasures reaped only pain.
       Sown seeds of hope help to inspire
    Our growing faith for the peace
       On earth that every soul requires
       When climbing paths ever higher.
    
     (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 III

    Being third child removed
    From his solar parents
    Mars soon experienced
    A growing family
    With the birth of a child
    That some would call Deimos
    
    He patiently watched
    The surface of his planet
    As it slowly began to form
    The crucial environments
    For the development
    Of a wide variety
    Of plants and animals
     (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 Child’s Bark

    Lurking as a shark
    Is the dog’s empty bark.
    It has pierced your soul
    For tis love she demands
    Not gravy in the bowl.
    
    She is not so unlike us
    In many ways,
    For like a child
    In her innocence she plays.
     (more…)

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