Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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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

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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
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Through Pisces to Aquarius II
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               II
Hiroshima!  Nagasaki!
The bomb explodes inside the mind,
Imprinting the horror within
Each living and unborn psyche.
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Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
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Paths II, v
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Hateful utterances
Express our bigotry;
As caught in the whirlwind
Thoughts of mass minds decay
We lose the direction
Of formerly trod ways.

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Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.
Paths II, i
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Falling from divine grace
We forfeit our higher goal
To the self centered wheel
Which still cyclically spins
In utter ignorance
Of paths to awareness.

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Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.
Paths II, vi
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Revolution can be
The destructive process
Which will begin ending
Darkness’ fearful night
And show life’s direction
Toward cherished paths of Light.

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Children of the Sun VIII

Suddenly emboldened
By the right to deny
Their internal essence
They build institutions
To enhance existence
And begin to bask
In the addictive glow
Of a material comfort
Sustained for the greater
By the labor of the lesser
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“Fireflies at twilight”

Fireflies at twilight
Illumine the Blue Ridge Christ
As it catches leaves

Blown from the disrobing trees
On winds of changing season

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“The tree in the seed”
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The tree in the seed
Knows its full maturity
As our Cosmic Self

Knows its Immortality
In the zero of silence
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10 to 17 February Afternoons, 1977 - Second Edition NOW Available.
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“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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