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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.

    Immaculate Conception III

    Undivided    Unconditioned
    Incorruptible Light pulses
    Through a possible Future Age
    Into the timelessness of Now
    To nourish the Child and its host
    As they both rapidly mature
    Through transformational stages
    To ultimately coexist
    In the Oneness of Cosmic Man
    
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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, x

    A wedding of diverse forces
       Within the newly evolved Man
       Creates an everlasting fire
       Where the flickering flame began.
    Our journey’s return to the source
       Is often difficultly slow;
          Becoming heaven’s instrument
          We soon lose our earthly desire,
          While donning the sacred garment
       Of His ever eternal flow.
    Once on the straight and narrow course
       The Man Divine must surely grow
       From celestial embryo.
    
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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.

    Innocence Revisited

    The crumbling of our protective walls
    Leaves us standing innocently naked,
    Opened to Love, vulnerable,
    And immersed solely in the moment;
    No yesterdays and no tomorrows,
    Only the Indefinable, Eternal Now.
    
    Feeling the flower grow,
    We suddenly approach God,
    Becoming One.
    
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  • This Poem can be found in

    METAMORPHOSIS, 1989 - Second Edition NOW Available.

    “We must never forsake our dreams”

    We must never forsake our Dreams
    For they will find Reality
    The moment we begin living
    In Harmony with Destiny.
    
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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.

    Atlantis Revisited

    All these deluded attempts
    To dwell, either in past
    Or future illusory times
    Of lives importantly lived
    Only fill diviners’ coffers.
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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.

    May I Say We

    There is but little to say—
         The cup from which I drink
         And is me
      	Is emptying. . .
         The last drops evaporate
         While the remaining residue
         Awaits cleansing.
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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.

    Birthing II

    With each new contraction chaos
    Further shakes a society
    Overpopulated with fear
    And addicted to the image
    Of a glorious history
    Seen as manifest destiny
    
    Unwilling to wake from this dream
    Some attempt to halt the coming
    Of something beyond their control
    And ability to understand
    
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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.

    “Help is coming”

    Help is coming—
    It is in your mind
    If you stop your games
    And find the time.
    
    And if you look
    You still can see
    Your non-existence
    Must cease to be.
    
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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.

    Listening Point

    Pend d’Oreille, remember the time
    Before time when in the womb 
    Of your mother Lake Missoula
    You heard her tell of the upheaval
    That violently birthed these mountains;
    When horizontal layers of rock
    Instantly pitched to angles
    That today disorient my eye;
    Appearing to fall directly
    Into their own reflection.
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