I wait for your return
I watch you in your play
You put on your sad face
your happy face
your serious face
You act out your psychodramas
I wait for your return
Beginning middle and end
future present and past
I long to hold you
For you to lay down with me again
Now I look at your wrinkled leather
In a glimpse you lay down in a quiet sleep
and dissolve into me again
Jim S. Hawks
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What happens when you forgive? You give, it’s a form of giving to yourself. When you forgive someone you feel better and you release those negative feelings. The hardest thing there is to do is forgiving yourself, however it’s the most rewarding. I wonder
why this is? Could it be that self love is something we deny ourselves?
For-give
Forgive them
Forgive yourself
Forgive the past
If you ask
HE WILL FORGIVE YOU INSTANTLY
Right now
This moment
You are new
No past
No future
Now you can create
Imagine something better
What do you want
Be clear
Be honest
Be yourself
Imagine that it is so
Believe
It will transform you
The poem ‘Blue’ was inspired by a thought of communicating to my daughter who lives far
away and most often is impossible to reach or contact. She has had a rough life having children out of wedlock and taking drugs. ‘Be with me’ meaning be safe with God as your protecter.
Blue is the sky
Blue are your eyes
Blue is your heart
A wind blows cool and cold
through the cave of your soul
It is a smooth and fleeting wind
It does not want you to know
It takes you away from who you really are
Come warm yourself by the fire
Be with me
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“The Gardener” sums it up in terms of what and where we are. We just need to slow down to get the answers; we are too bombarded with stimuli that doesn’t serve us. We need to get in touch with the source, whatever that may mean to you. Make the change start the process of internal dialog, make some inroads with who you are and what you want and where you are going. You will be enriched and better for it. This an ancient solution and simple in it’s approach but difficult in it’s practice. First committ to start. Blessings enjoy the journey. Go to my website for clues in the form
of metaphors. www.jimhawks.com
Blessings Jim
He planted us here on earth
In this world all is provided
We are like seeds waiting to germinate
When we know who we are
When we see through all that is false
That there is a divine magnetism that pulls us to our truth
Through the entangled vines of choosing
We break through our earthly bonds
And we bloom
We open
We reach out
Toward the sky
The vast universe opens
To reveal the glory of life
At this moment you know HIM
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This poem is all about what has already been given to us. We can look deep inside and
decide what those gifts are. Being grateful for all that is “Given” especially the awareness of the ability to know one’s self. When we are able to see in this way
we can use many of our experiences with more strength and detachment.
I have given you a gift
But you have not opened it
Although you think about it at times
You like to have possessions
You add it to the others you bought
But a gift is given
There is no payment
Your gift is waiting to be opened
Someday when you see that taking
and having give no pleasure
You will open your gift
Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty, or One Hundred Years
You will say I must open my gift
When you open my gift to you
You will see it feel it smell it touch it and hear it and taste it
It will be as new
Just like the day I gave it to you
The day of your birth
Jim Samuel Hawks
This poem is all about consciousness. This consciousness is always watching, it is seeing what we are doing. If we are able to tap into this consciousness we can start to direct our lifes with more purpose. We can change behaviors and thus outcomes.
When we are able to do this we can create a better, more enriching experience in this lifetime. May you “watch the river” from a different point of view one with awareness of the self.