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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

    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…)

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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.

    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.
     (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.

    Through Pisces to Aquarius II

                   II
    Hiroshima!  Nagasaki!
    The bomb explodes inside the mind,
    Imprinting the horror within
    Each living and unborn psyche.
     (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 I, iii

                    
    Notice the solely unique in each,
       For the preciousness of every one
       Is special and rare, a beauty
       To behold in the noonday sun;
    As pebbles along the shore reach
       Out, hoping to hear another call. . .
          An individual striving for name,
          To be part of the whole, yet free,
          Quite different though of the same.
       The unity shared before the fall
    Is ours to feel, learn and teach. . .
       Seeing One in many, large in small,
       We grow to find the ALL in ALL.
    
     (more…)

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  • 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.

    Remember Not to Forget

    The mountains have been moved.
    There are cracks in the walls
    Of personal and societal brick.
    As the flower Terra grows,
    Forming a perfect bud,
    We see in its emergence
    Living visions of a future
    Mankind has always known.
     (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.

    From an Oak Tree

    For long hours	Dreaming
    Resting      Back to trunk
    Enraptured
    By sturdy limbs
    Carrying seeds
    For future generations
     (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.

    Far Away

    Far away the children play
    In a world shrouded in innocence.
    Let them play—
    And learn to deal with life.
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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.

    Man

    Most males are cold
    Unfeeling
        Individuals. . .?
    
    Possibly this explains
    An ability to relate to women
    And the feelings of love
    We have for them.
     (more…)

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