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...
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coronaboreal...
Feb 8, 2013 4:10 pm
Aimless Love This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day with a mouse the cat had dropped under the dining...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 13, 2013 11:14 pm
LOVE POEM 14 They told us love can't last but repeated use has yet to wear ragged the fabric of our love Don't they know when you're in love you're in God ...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 23, 2013 12:24 am
AT THE BUS SHELTER Loaded with groceries we sit down in the bus shelter A man with a long beard is sitting with a space between us when a large young man comes...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 24, 2013 5:25 am
ANIMAL MAGNETISM I used to be buffaloed but now I'm bugged I used to be goosed but now I'm badgered I used to ape but now I duck I used to pussyfoot but now I...
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coronaboreal...
Feb 25, 2013 6:15 pm
Solar On a gray day, when the sun has been abducted, and itÂ’s chill end-of-the-world weather, I must be the sun. I must be the one to encourage the young ...
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Steve Toth
sstoth0
Feb 25, 2013 10:44 pm
FEELING ALIVE When the temperature falls you can see your breath billowing like you're steam driven Then again as it warms up your breath will no longer be...
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coronaboreal...
Feb 26, 2013 10:35 pm
A Spiritual Journey And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very...