Sunny Rays Press is excited and proud to announce the Winter 2009 publication of Poet Kenny Rose Butts' third collection of poems.

The Trip Out will be published and distributed by Sunny Rays Press in January of 2009. This volume will again feature stunning cover art by acclaimed artist Lane Cosner.

The Trip Out
A Collection of Poems by Kenny Rose Butts

"In this third collection of poems, poet Kenny Rose Butts explores – with profound honesty, insightfulness and love – the universal journey from life without realization to a life of awareness and true consciousness."

The Trip Out

How many grains does it take
to gain the seashore

Within us
we hear the call
we carry our shell
listening to an inner … ear
that hears a call
that we all share

The movement that moves us
is directed by
grains of sand
composed to take us from the land
to see where we all meet

The shorline seen, from sandy beach
can be reached if those offshore
make a move to see

Be we of sea legs or feet
the assurance that we'll meet
from coast to coast
from land or sea
breaks when

The depth of our journey
is seen by those who perceive
The tracks in the sand
are washed away
with the tide that takes no sides

We ride waves of our vision and decisions
to stick our head . . . out
to see
not to shout it’s me
But to begin the trip out
from within

- from The Trip Out
by Kenny Rose Butts

Live it Right

You have this life, live it right
to the end
it takes its shape
by your hands

Through your breath
you hail from the vase
that holds the face
of lips
that spoke, then drink
the potion

Set in motion, you see
by your deeds
the seeds, that grew
into what … now holds
that bloom
with emptiness or the fullness
of
a life lived
with an end, to begin with

- from The Trip Out
by Kenny Rose Butts