Sunrise Tortoise - Poetry of Lawrence E. Keith

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

Paths IA, xi

During the early budding years
   The Holy Spirit will descend
   To live in the sacred temple,
   Becoming advisor and friend.
When Heaven’s voice pierces the ear,
   Our Inner Peace gathers the might
      To pass all of temptation’s tests;
      For in the speaking of His Will
      We help establish the conquest
   Of evil’s all engulfing fright.
With the Kingdom of Heaven near
   His ever radiant Light
   Produces wings for the coming flight.

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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 spigot will open gushing”
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The spigot will open gushing
When the handle
In your mind
Is found.
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FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

“The pendulum swings”

The pendulum swings
Life to death to life to death
Over and over

Until one becomes the stillness
At the center of the wheel

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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.
“Do you fully understand”
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Do you fully understand—
Your mind? ?   ?   ?    ?
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Through Pisces to Aquarius IX

                IX
Modern day Luddite warriors,
Fight not for the jobs you have lost.
Tune out, unplug, and awaken
From the techutopian dream
To join battle late in the day
For the Soul of Humanity.
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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.

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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.
“We have been alone too long—“
From the book 10 to 17 February Afternoons
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We have been alone too long---

Frustrations caused by our inability
     To communicate
          with each other
          And Nature
     Have pushed us
          Over the edge
          Of living
          And feeling life.
The importance of every
     Seed,
     Leaf,
     Branch,
     Limb,
     And Trunk,
     Of every tree,
     Seem often overlooked;
          For they are as
          Individually different
          As each and every
          One of us.
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Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.
Ethereal Love
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Wherever I go,
It remains so. . .
    At my side
    You walk,
    In my mind
    We talk.
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Dream Fragment 19, 1995 - Second Edition NOW Available
Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

Groundhog Day

Who can distinguish night from day
In the twilight of history?
Does this dull light signal nights end,
Or only the last light of day?

Some believe the sun will soon rise
To reverse the flow of darkness,
While others hear the dying screams
Of their Destiny Manifest.
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