Sunrise Tortoise

Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Welcome
    • About the Author
    • About the Poems
    • Reader Thoughts
  • News
  • Books
    • 10 to 17 February Afternoons
    • Paths
    • Metamorphosis
    • Dream Fragment 19
    • FIVE
    • The One
    • The Collected Poetry 1969-2012
    • A Year in Hope
  • Complete Poem List
  • Contact
  • Special Order
  • Links
    • Articles
    • Organizations
    • Friends
  • Pricing List

Featured Poems

  • 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.

    “Another day”

    Another day    
    Today
    As bright and fresh
    As any day ever.
    
    Today
    Is upon
    Us all.
    
    (more…)
  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “I Am That I Am”

    I Am That I Am
    Preceded the Fall of Man
    And will always Be
    
    The fulcrum of existence
    To project identity
    
    (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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.
    
     (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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, xii

    There came this man from Galilee
       Showing life’s direction with Love; 
       Some say he could walk on water,
       God’s emissary from above,
    While in His name some charge a fee
       To purge others from mortal sin.
          He has been taken into battle,
          Worshipped from palace to gutter,
          And although the debates still rattle,
       His flame burns outside and within.
    He points to Immortality
       With the Christ Consciousness to win. . .
       Our choice is fall, or to begin.
    
     (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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, ix

    Various books of scripture lay
       For our opened eyes to see,
       A testament from all cultures
       Of the world that is to be.
    In spectrum’s spiritual array
       Peoples of all colors and creeds
          In silent reverence converse,
          Warning of temptation’s vultures
          That pilot desire’s mortal hearse.
       In scripture Providence’s seed
    Is sown to grow and show the way
       For man to quench his thirstful need
       To live life, unshackled and freed.
    
     (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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.
     (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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.

    Immaculate Conception I

    The Idea of Cosmic Man
    Carried within each soul at birth
    Constantly reminds Consciousness
    Of its duty to generate
    Sufficient luminosity
    To invite the Holy Spirit
    For partnering in conceiving
    The Celestial Embryo
    
     (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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.

    “The gift was not given”

    The gift was not given
    For obligatory purposes
    On either side.
    Twas given denoting
    A temporary abundance
    On the part of the giver—
    Who knows,
    Later the tables may be turned.
    
    (more…)

    Hear the poem →

  • 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.

    “Is it valid to”

    Is it valid to 
    Orderly push
    Ones mind—
    Milking it
    Expanding it
    Thinking. . . .
    Being?
    
    (more…)

    Hear the poem →

Sunrise Tortoise

Website design by Keokee in Sandpoint, Idaho