2020
Richard Doiron
Published 53 years. Author of 18 books.
Work read at UN. Published alongside the Dalai Lama twice by invitation. 2012 World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Estimated 1000 poems published to date. Participant in national and international literary festivals, including the Northrop Frye Festival. Graduate in journalism and Certified Life-skills Coach. Richard was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 from Pentasi B World Friendship Poetry, which has over 7000 members online, poets of international status.
June 19, 2017 nominated for a Salute America "There's a winner in you!" Lifetime Achievement Award. Nominated by James Pasqual Bettio, former senator in the California Senior Legislature, nomination on behalf of The ARTeryUSA.org
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Tripping Over Epiphanies
Let us long to be in fields that are rife with flowers, where as each petal is as a bead on a rosary, and each sector is as a litany of prayers.
Let us long to walk where nature itself is surely awe-struck, a breeze gently blowing, the senses stirred into the deeper awakening.
Let us long to touch upon the Essence in the way
that birds and bees do, with butterflies ablaze
leading us all into silent supplication.
Let us long to be humbled once more,
whereas every single footstep proposes a cautionary measure, lest we should trip over epiphanies.
-Richard Doiron