THE NIGHT I WAS BORN The night I was born life started licking its chops Every dog has got to have a bone to chew on Life no one says no to you including me ...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Oct 26, 2012 1:51 pm
When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Nov 1, 2012 6:17 am
OUT OF WHACK Once when I was riding my bike in the new housing development just as I was passing through an intersection with two imaginary cross streets a dog...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Nov 2, 2012 4:29 pm
No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths that have belonged to...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Nov 5, 2012 12:04 am
ENTER When we enter the woods it's like Adam & Eve returning to Paradise It's not what they call you but what you answer to I answer to you my love When you're...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Nov 6, 2012 3:50 pm
The Gardener of Eden I am the old dreamer who never sleeps I am timekeeper of the timeless dance I preserve the long rhythms of the earth and fertilize the...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Nov 19, 2012 6:30 am
ANOTHER WAVE A wave rises up to its full height of drops then charges the beach but seems to trip over the shore line & falls flat on its face making a...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Nov 29, 2012 10:51 pm
NAMELESS THING Remember the first time you discovered your own personal history corresponding with the universal history of humankind in every sense? ...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Dec 9, 2012 2:26 pm
The following links are for my poetry and haiku posted to the Yahoo group VoicesOfThePhilosophersStone. When you're in the mood for contemplation, please...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Dec 15, 2012 5:50 am
TOO MUCH Not satisfied with damage done looks like last year's tsunami isn't done with us quite yet Flotillas of debris are making their way across the deep &...
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coronaborealis444
coronaboreal...
Dec 18, 2012 5:24 pm
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Dec 19, 2012 6:24 am
... Yes as poets we don't write to people as much as for them. Steve...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Dec 19, 2012 6:24 am
ANSWER TO A FOOL Pardon our makeshift memorials our clusters of burning candles our awkward flowers & balloons Forgive our clumsy piles of cuddly stuffed...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Jan 1, 2013 5:27 pm
NOW WHAT? The year you see circling the drain is the last one on its way out Can you blame a year for what happened while it was passing? All the year did was ...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Jan 3, 2013 5:56 pm
For Presence Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. Receive...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Jan 4, 2013 5:28 pm
A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Jan 7, 2013 3:55 am
PLAY ON WORDS Sunlight plays on the water as a song plays on the radio You can play ball with the bosses or play it by ear as you play for time Play it cool or...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Jan 9, 2013 11:01 pm
Here are three haiku about the rape victim from India. The government did not want her name released, but her family did in hopes that her death would be of...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Jan 10, 2013 4:07 pm
Where you are going and the place you stay come to the same thing. What you long for and what you've left behind are as useless as your name. Just one time,...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Jan 10, 2013 8:11 pm
LAST THING I REMEMBER Last thing I remember it was the first thing this morning Just one look did I take your way & suddenly nothing else mattered Like the sun...
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wdestiny44@...
coronaboreal...
Jan 15, 2013 4:31 pm
It turns out that the poem "Success" was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was written by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1904. She entered it into a poetry...
Richard Blanco delivering the 2013 inaugural poem "One Today" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQeBgfzVgg Enjoy this beautiful and timely poem. Love, Sharon 444...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Jan 24, 2013 1:11 am
THINGS TO DO WITH WORDS The word is out Things that seem to be at odds are often working together To read a face start learning to recognize the like in the...
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coronaboreal...
Jan 25, 2013 6:19 pm
Buddha's Dogs I'm at a day-long meditation retreat, eight hours of watching my mind with my mind, and I already fell asleep twice and nearly fell out of my...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Jan 26, 2013 3:16 am
NOTHING IS UNCONNECTED Without the gray wolf's presence their prey the elk's reproduction rates got out of hand With all the extra mouths to feed the grass no...
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coronaboreal...
Jan 30, 2013 9:26 pm
Legacy we live in a world of tortured screams, the deaf in charge of hearing, the blind in charge of seeing, the numb in charge of feeling ruthless insanity is...
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coronaborealis444
coronaboreal...
Jan 31, 2013 8:09 pm
Hi Steve: Playing catch up in reading your poems. They are welcomed heart tugs. Isn't it time for another book to be put together? Best, Sharon 444...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 5, 2013 12:56 am
ANSELM The first time I met Anselm he had called me in to his office for a meeting I had submitted a small manuscript & figured this meant I would be accepted ...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 5, 2013 6:08 am
TOMBEAU When a poet dies something must be done with the physical body but the true tomb or tombeau of a poet is constructed by other poets The words of the...
