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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.

    Untitled April

    Moon and cherry tree
    Together in bloom,
    Full.  Moon and blossoms
    Waning in light winds,
    Fall.  Pieces of white
    Drop, softly caressing
    Sacred ground.  Beneath
     (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 VII

    Spinning and wobbling
    Through long days and nights
    Mother Earth shudders
    As her passengers
    Travel the rutted roads
    Of emerging thought
     (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.

    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.
    
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “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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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available
    Collected - New, a collection of all of the poems in one book - Available January 2013.

    Greetings, My Friend

         Today
    This hand
    Reached out
    
    You withdrew
    Unwilling
    To stretch your hand
    Across the chasm
    Of time and change
    
         Widening
     (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 I

    Currently residing
    Between her two siblings
    Venus and Mars
    The blue jeweled planet
    On whose surface we ride
    Revolves around its parent
    Through the galactic night
    
     (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.

    “After you begin”

        After you begin
    Appreciating life
    In its entirety,
    People seem so busy
    In their trivialities—
        Usually involving money.
    
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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.

    Of Two

    Windy is the night.
    The storms of passion
    Turned out the lights
    And the love and the dreams
    Of Two.
    
    Grey clouds cover all
    In their world
    As the rains fall,
    Streaming down the cheeks
    Of Two.
    
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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 I, vi

    Is the heaven we seek beyond,
       Or a divine flame within us?
       To reach out, grasping distant star
       Is opening the heart to trust
    In a divinely loving bond.
       The seeds of immortality
          In each individual soul
          Lie dormant, to sprout at any hour,
          As we dwarf or nurture their very goal.
       If the quest be made lovingly,
    Our eternal life will greet the dawn;
       Awakening the asleep to see
       Heaven’s all encompassing glory.
    
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