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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, i

    Falling from divine grace
    We forfeit our higher goal
    To the self centered wheel
    Which still cyclically spins
    In utter ignorance
    Of paths to awareness.
    
     (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.

    Driftwood Daydream

    Fifty-seven winters
    I have perched on this coast,
    To watch the tide rise up
    Only to fall again.
    I gawk at you bipeds
    Gawking at me in awe,
    When my outstretched wings touch
    The distant horizon.
     (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “Cherish each moment”

    Cherish each moment
    In the presence of petals
    Unfolding rose red
    
    Love patiently residing
    At the Center of Being
    
    (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.

    Ethereal Love

    Wherever I go,
    It remains so. . .
        At my side
        You walk,
        In my mind
        We talk.
     (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.

    “It is now winter”

    It is now winter;
    The end—
    The beginning—
    And an avalanche of thought
    For everyone.
    
    (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.

    The Child’s Bark

    Lurking as a shark
    Is the dog’s empty bark.
    It has pierced your soul
    For tis love she demands
    Not gravy in the bowl.
    
    She is not so unlike us
    In many ways,
    For like a child
    In her innocence she plays.
     (more…)

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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.

    Hippo Rock

    Another wave washes 
    The Hippo clean
    Of perching shore birds
    
    Overhead the seasonal wave
    Of migrating ducks and geese
    Struggle to reorganize
    Their disintegrating formations
    In the erratic April breezes
     (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.

    “Leaving our footprints”

    Leaving our footprints
    In the sands of time
    We walk till sunset
    Your hand in mine.
    
    (more…)

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  • This Poem can be found in

    FIVE - New, First Edition NOW Available

    “The tree in the seed”

    The tree in the seed
    Knows its full maturity
    As our Cosmic Self
    
    Knows its Immortality
    In the zero of silence
    
    (more…)

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