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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 IV

                        IV
    We both knew it had been some years
    Since we spent much time together.
    There were many stories to tell
    And so few hours to get all said;
    Yet I wanted to share my joy
    Of living near mountains and lakes:
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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.

    Foresight

    Your dreams
    Will come true
    When you—
    Dream them.
    
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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
    
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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, v

                     
    In glimpses of light at tunnels end
       We gain the strength to persevere
       Our night’s desolate darkness
       And ebb the flooding tide of fear.
    The depths of despair we transcend
       With newly acquired eyes for sight
          And become immersed in the beam
          Of all expanding awareness
          To wake us from the nightmarish dream.
       Oneness grows, melting wrong or right,
    Differences can no longer rend
       Any choice between black and white
       In the glow of everlasting light.
    
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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.

    Epiphany on the Palouse – B. The Plea

    Therefore, I petition the bored;
    Referring to section seven,
    First Amendment to the Second
    Law of Diminishing Audience
    To become a standing member
    Or one sitting within sight of
    The          Society        for		
    The          Prevention     of
                 Disabled
                 Poets.
    
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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.

    Epiphany on the Palouse – E. Education

    While doing research for my new book,
    THE METEORIC RISE
    OF THE THIRD RIGHT SANS GRAVITY,
    Subtitled, “The Magma Farta
    Of the Third Millennium,”
    I had to acknowledge that Rush
    Must be right:  Millions and millions
    Of lemmings can’t all be wrong headed
    Wrong headed.
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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, vi

    Revolution can be
    The destructive process
    Which will begin ending
    Darkness’ fearful night
    And show life’s direction
    Toward cherished paths of Light.
    
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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 33

    He disengaged hands
    Feet from cross and nails
    Easing pain down to the floor
    Stumbling stretching walking
    Through chapel doors down steps
    Merging with the swirling snow
    And scurrying Christmas crowd
    Shopping up down Main Street
    
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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.

    Birthday

    The gift on your doorstep
    Today
    Was imagined and created
    Yesterday
    With every thought
    Word and deed
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