Pause For Poetry:
Michael Hawkes /24
Wishes
March 13, 2021
A poem by Michael Hawkes
I wish I were as certain
In my being as a cat
When deciding not to be involved
Simply, just like that!
I wish I could be contented
Like a grass-fed Jersey cow,
With my head down
Munching mushrooms,
Oblivious somehow.
I’d like to be as faithful
As a well- trained collie dog,
Trusting that my loyalty
Will bring me close to God;
Or as rich in glow and glitter
As a full-grown butterfly
Fluttering ecstatically
Unaware the end is nigh;
Or any of His creatures
That isn’t “sapiens”,
That doesn’t suffer shamelessly
Or need to make amends.
27/02/21 – Hawkes
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Michael Hawkes was a survivor of all the world’s wars. He learned (and loved to rhyme) by torturing the hymns he had to sing at school. A retired West Coast fisherman living in Montreal since 2013, he is an unschooled Grandpa Moses writing an average of five poems every week.
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