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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.

    The Cul de Sac of Growth

    Innocence blesses our early waxing years—
    The freedom possessed though not known
    Is a release from prejudice, hate and fear,
    Until seeds of worldly knowledge are sown.
    
    The senses pleasures become our growth,
    As pushing and striving for distant gain
    We cast aside the heavenly oath
    To replace universal love with mortal pain.
     (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 XIV

    With the expected birth
    Into the solar family
    Of another child
    Siblings will again shift
    To drift further away
    From the place of their birth
    And into the comfort
    Of newly found orbits
     (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

    Paths, 1978 - Second Edition NOW Available.
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    In the Shaman’s Breath

                     I
    O Shaman Shaman
    With cold penetrating breath
    Having been pushed to the edge
    Will you reveal a chilling death?
     (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.

    The Promise

    As a constant reminder		
    I taped a yellow
    And a blue crocus
    To the inside of my head
    
    Continue to Night of the Living
    (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.

    May I Say We

    There is but little to say—
         The cup from which I drink
         And is me
      	Is emptying. . .
         The last drops evaporate
         While the remaining residue
         Awaits cleansing.
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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.
     (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.

    Amanita Cloud

    For centuries the Sacred Mushroom Ritual
    Has been a vehicle for reaching Eternity.
    We need not risk physical ingestion,
    And the possible effects of its deadly poison,
    If we symbolically see this visual keyhole
    As showing us the way to that other world
    Far beyond our day to day comprehension.
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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.

    To John Keats

    Creative thought—
    That which is progress
    Is found in the form of escape, or
    Whether it be daydreams or
    Balancing on the fence
    Between sleep and wake; for it is
    Sleep and Poetry.
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