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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “Do we sink, swim”

    Do we sink, swim
    Or endlessly tread water?
    This seesaw life of constant choice
    Must yield to the Balance within
    If Existence is to continue.
    
    (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
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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 5

    Smartly dressed in red and black
    The ants climb the green stalks
    Slowly circling and circling
    To coax a tightly wrapped bud
    Open for the hidden pink
    Gift of a peony sun
    Rising over the green mountain
    Of my flowering mind
    
    Continue to Dream Fragment 28
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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.

    First Snow

    Unable to find restful sleep
    I quickly open the closed blinds
    And await the season’s first snow
    With youthful anticipation.
    
    This morning one reluctant leaf
    Barely clings to the cherry tree
    As it gently sways to north winds
    Blowing Snow in and Autumn out.
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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.

    The One

    The dust and ashes
    Of fear and freud
    Have been laid to rest
    With fame and fortune
    
    From a common grave
    The ashes of time
    And dust of Being
    Will assemble to Birth
    The ONE
    
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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.

    Paths IA, iii

    Become one with God in silence
       And the Light will forever shine
       To illumine each darkened day
       With knowledge of our gifts divine.
    When immersed in His eternal presence
      The Life Immortal grows within,
          Opening formerly locked doors
          So as to view heaven’s stairway
          To existence forevermore.
       Love of God is the origin
    Which sparks the needed diligence
       To find centered in His doctrine
       The divine flame which is our twin.
    
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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.

    Paths IA, viii

    The deep rooted totality
       Found inside each one’s heart center
       Can now spring forth without effort
       Toward new horizons, and enter
    Lost levels of infinity,
       Previously beyond our dreams.
          With angelical assistance
          As our needed sacred passport,
          All gifts of loving abundance
       Are extended from heaven’s scheme
    To manifest a tapestry
       Woven with threads of thoughts supreme
       Flowing from eternity’s stream.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “From Monticello”

    From Monticello
    Is heard Jefferson singing
    His song of Freedom
    
    Calling for revolution
    By expanding Consciousness
    
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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.

    Paths II, ii

    The differences appear
    To dismember oneness,
    And soon all worth is Me,
    The love of our neighbor
    Degenerates to greed
    And hateful jealousy.
    
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