Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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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”
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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.
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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.
“Tomorrow – a new day”
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Tomorrow—a new day
To be dealt with as we will.

A new life’s door is before us,
Yet we open yesterdoor
Without thought
In the habit of our ways.
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Nineteen Ninety One, May Day II

                  II
In agitated exhaustion, we come
Seeking Ocean’s restless rejuvenation.
During the wailing Pacific gales
Undertows and high, ripping tides
Reclaim real estate by the acre
In an attempt to provide safe haven
For some of this continent under siege.
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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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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.

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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.

“White caps appear between the grey”

White caps appear between the grey
Of the free and angry sea,
As I stand with hands pocket deep
Tasting the salt spray on my lips.

Wind blown tresses cover my face.
Whisking them away
I feel the flame of your presence;
Turning I meet your ambient eyes
And again I’m warm with you near.

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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Unsung May

Inside the morning rain
The summer heat of May
Departs on the wind
Whipped white capped lake.  Hail

Dancing to thunder, falls
Through the sky cracking
Lightning striking afternoon
To scatter fragile petals
Over white grass.  Green stems
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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
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”
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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.
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