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Featured Poems

  • 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.

    Borning Prayer

    Mother-Father
    Blessed Universal Presence
    Residing in the Eternal Now
    Let your Presence be Known
    Within this physical vehicle
    Purifying and aligning
    The seven energy centers
    In each and every one of its bodies
    Lighting the Vertical Pathway
    Firing the Cross of Creation (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 XIII

    The solar family met
    To hear the announcement
    Of the long rumored birth
    Of another child planet
    In a not too distant
    Future galactic time
     (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 II

    Many aeons ago
    As the Sun birthed Venus
    The molten planet Earth
    Began to rapidly cool
    As it found residence
    In the humid orbit
    Older brother Mars
    Previously called home
     (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.

    Every Day

    Live every day,
    May it be your last.
    Love every winging bird,
    Every blade of grass.
    
    The rain from the heavens,
    The warmth of the sun;
    Breathe and touch all life
    With Love and Affection
    Till your day is done.
    
    (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.

    Birthing II

    With each new contraction chaos
    Further shakes a society
    Overpopulated with fear
    And addicted to the image
    Of a glorious history
    Seen as manifest destiny
    
    Unwilling to wake from this dream
    Some attempt to halt the coming
    Of something beyond their control
    And ability to understand
    
     (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.

    “I want to taste your love”

    I want to taste your love
    As together we become one
    In the warmth and security
    Of each other’s arms and bodies.
    
    While two days will be eternal to us
    We shall experience all in total.
    
    All will end, but only in time’s scope,
    For it will remain forever in our hearts
    And minds as we pass beyond time.
    
    (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 VII

    Spinning and wobbling
    Through long days and nights
    Mother Earth shudders
    As her passengers
    Travel the rutted roads
    Of emerging thought
     (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.

    Venus

    After many centuries in abeyance
    The winds of Venus are blowing
    To again wreak havoc in our lives.
    
    Red, yellow and blue planetary visions
    Kaleidoscopically change in minutes,
    Sending cracks through our emotional core
    And chilling the superficial warmth
    Of all shallow rooted relationships.
     (more…)

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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.

    Dream Fragment 8

    Nightly swaying darkly
    Through catacombs of sleep
    Subterranean lives
    Repeat mumbled questions
    To echoing mirrors
    Answered by meteors
    Showering broken glass
    On the highway of hope
    
    Continue to The Promise
    (more…)

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