"Soular Souldier" - 'poems on the road to love' - is a soulful collection of 114 Chay Tana poems from 1970 to 2007. Here's one soulful sample which also appears on the back cover of the paperback, plus a middle verse from the voluptuous title poem: 'In the Garden'Did you see the garden fairWhere lovers weave songs in the air, The golden symbol's resting placeThe lonely souldier's dream?We passed through thereAnd for a brief and happy momentWe found we were that beauty.Did you see the garden thereWhere we first lovedWhen someone cared?Some people called it the commonBut to me it was...

"Chica del Alba" - 'poetry on the coast of love' - is a bracing collection of 114 Chay Tana poems from 1969 to 2014. Here's one salty and one summery sample which also appears on the back cover of the paperback: 'Song of the Salt Air Gone Dead Love'SeagullsSmoothly wheeling overheadCall me to the air andSea.A salty breezePushes me steadilyTo where the weedAnd crabs stayAnd hereI fall heavily on my kneesShaking my fistsAt the whispering rollOf powder feather wavesBreakingI break tooAnd the seaThe skyThe rushing cloudsAre all too muchAnd I cry ...... And the wind, salty and distant Cries your...

"Improvisation In Blue" - 'the lotusdust poems' - is a mixed collection of 104 romantic, spiritual and surreal Chay Tana poems from 1969 to 2013. Here's one harmonious haiku, plus the first verse from the much longer final poem of the collection, both of which also appear on the back cover of the paperback: 'Haiku For Deya'Deya I love youSacred your dream dreaming mineAnd mine dreaming yours.from 'Just the Day Every Way Should Begin'Days are like fields of grassWarmAnd laying completely stillSoaking in the bursting splattersOf the sun's morning explosion.I love youAnd every morning I will...

"Land of Auroras" is a selection of 101 of my favourite poems from my previously published collections, "The Moment Is Perfect," "Soular Souldier," "Chica del Alba" and "Improvisation In Blue"; plus I've added a new one - 'In the Land of Auroras' - to reflect this book's title. I initially planned to only use haikus, parahaikus and other shorter verse - a parahaiku being my own term for a 17 syllable 'haiku' not in the standard Western format of 5-7-5 - but I changed my mind as my actual favourites are my longer poems such as the thematic 'Soular Souldier', 'Chica del Alba' and 'Improvisation...

Please note that the entire Quest of the Solar Flower trilogy and the single volume version are now in "revised second edition" form with close to 200 minor text changes made throughout since Edition One. Thus please read on, for this epic tale breaks entirely new ground in science fiction, particularly that it contains authentic gnostic content, including real inner world experiences of the author which are given to the central hero, Joe Paz. Not only is the tale painted on a canvas of one real and three fictional universes, but it also enters the very real and personally...

The Battle for Ahora, Volume Two of the 'Quest of the Solar Flower trilogy' (new 2nd Edition), continues the epic gnostic science fiction mega-myth, set 156 years after the Old Earth's Armageddon.

In this middle stage of the Quest, Joe Paz returns to Gaia in the starscout Feh 418 and discovers that his closest ranger allies had long been aware of the Solar Flower legend, the true origin of the Tranquilonians, and that only he and Aubony had been kept in the dark. Returning to planet Ahaia in Universe Three accompanied by Iola Tao in the rhythm-ship Aurora,...

"The Moment Is Perfect" is a small collection of romantic and spiritual poems which have been previously published in various formats, including print: an anthology, pamphlets, newsletters and blogs. The author trusts that once you begin reading you'll find that indeed each moment is perfect in the centre of your loving heart. An excerpt: 'Peace Piece'I brushed your windy hair awayI kissed your sandy cheekI saw your sunny face todayAnd all it said was Peace.(c) 2014 Chay Tana

The Time of New Love, Volume Three of the 'Quest of the Solar Flower' trilogy, concludes the epic gnostic science fiction mega-myth, set 156 years after the Old Earth's Armageddon.

In this final stage of the Quest, the Sheng-lai once again become an eight tribe Hai; the eight nations of the Solar Flower continent find union; and Joe Paz and comrades take on a fleet of Bamboolian space pirates in the newly designed super star-yacht Tao-Ceti.

Later, the key questers travel through the Central-Tao-Voidgate at the very heart of the four universes to view...

Please note that the entire Quest of the Solar Flower trilogy and the single volume version are now in "revised second edition" form with close to 200 minor text changes made throughout since Edition One. Thus please read on, for this epic tale breaks entirely new ground in science fiction, particularly that it contains authentic gnostic content, including real inner world experiences of the author which are given to the central hero, Joe Paz. Not only is the tale painted on a canvas of one real and three fictional universes, but it also enters the very real and personally...