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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.

    Early August

    The morning garden chatter spoke
    Of the ripening chokecherries:
    In a week the firm green berries
    Have become a plump burgundy.
    
    Soon after the fledglings have flown
    The annual gathering begins
    With errant flights of drunkenness;
    Ending in somber discussions
    Of migratory timeliness.
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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, v

                     
    In glimpses of light at tunnels end
       We gain the strength to persevere
       Our night’s desolate darkness
       And ebb the flooding tide of fear.
    The depths of despair we transcend
       With newly acquired eyes for sight
          And become immersed in the beam
          Of all expanding awareness
          To wake us from the nightmarish dream.
       Oneness grows, melting wrong or right,
    Differences can no longer rend
       Any choice between black and white
       In the glow of everlasting light.
    
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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.

    Empty Garden

    Yesterday, the thought, if imaginable,
    Would have been quickly dismissed.
    Yet today, I know and can feel
    A complete Emptiness in my head;
    And at this moment, begin to wonder
    Whether I should attempt to fill it
    With something new and meaningful.
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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 V

                    V
    Ones and zeros.  Zeros and ones.
    In proper combinations,
    Our loved ones become the graphics
    On ever faster computer screens.
    All problems can be solved with more
    Available information;
    Efficiency becomes the key 
    To a positive bottom line.
    Compute more data.  Garbage in,
    More garbage out, up, down, around.
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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.

    Prayer for the Living

    Rushing, pushing and striving to obtain
    Enlightenment and riches in an hour or a day,
    Leaves us no time whatsoever to wait
    For this Tree to grow tall and oak straight.
    
    Our newly felled sapling becomes
    Another very poor excuse
    For some building material
    Or long dead martyr’s sacred post.
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Nasturtiums slow dance”

    Nasturtiums slow dance
    In the soft summer breezes
    To Nature’s rhythms
    
    Pulsing through the Milky Way
    And stones on the garden path
    
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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, viii

    Awakening to the morning sun
       We accompany the birds and sing
       Our thankfulness for light of day
       And render this our offering. . .
    Humble gifts of selfless action
       Toward a world in harmony.
          While seeking love and brotherhood
          Along the dimly lighted way
          We cast aside evil for good
       Finding actual Reality.
    The quest is made with devotion
       For the future Humanity
       To evolve its true Identity.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers”

    Other scavengers pluck her tail feathers,
    Limiting the Eagle’s mobility and power.
    One by one the feathers are taken
    Making flight practically impossible.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “A death has been knocking at the door”

    A death has been knocking at the door,
    But I refuse to listen and only ignore;
    For Destiny is worth keeping
    These two feet terra firmly seeking
    To extend the never ending Dream
    Beyond personal reality.
    
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