I Am
Poet ---Seeing my world through words
Photographer ---Sharing what I see through my art
Friend ---Learning to accept what is offered
Aunt ---Providing a steady, safe place to grow
Gallery Owner ---Selling arts and crafts of Mexico
Traveler ---Expanding my world through other cultures
Hypnotherapist ---Helping others to heal
Sister ---Holding hands, together stronger
Creative ---Finding ways to share joy and beauty
Cook ---Welcoming guests to relax and gather
Mother ---Loving those who come to me
Impatient ---Waiting is hard but I’m working on it
Capable ---Working solutions to problems as they arise
Love ---Staying mindful through yoga and laughter
Happy ---Living the life I have created
Me ---Caring and strong yet vulnerable
I Am Contest by Andrea Dietrich
copyright 2020 Jeanne McGee
Categories:
hypnotherapist, character, feelings,
Form: List
Have you ever been hypnotized?
I was always the one they led up to the stage from the audience.
I could be so easily hypnotized it was nuts.
Infatuated by it, I took some classes
Teaching me how to hypnotize others.
Dr. Hickman was teaching them.
She gave me a book.
Hypnotherapy by Dr. Irene Hickman.
I was not ready for this.
I thought it was a bunch of hooey.
I did not appreciate the book or her autograph.
Ten years later fate threw me into a hypnotherapy course.
I am now a licensed hypnotherapist. Wishing I had not
been so hasty.
I had thrown away the book.
Feel badly now, as Dr. Irene Hickman
Was one of three people instrumental in
Introducing hypnotherapy to the United States.
I was shocked when I took the course,
And learned that the woman who desperately
Wanted to intern me years earlier was one of
The pioneers.
She was a calm, quiet, older, eighty-year old who spoke softly….
Categories:
hypnotherapist, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Big giant thanks to Dr. Cordoba,
Who attended career day in Robe-A,
Went to school in the east,
Hypnotherapist beast.
We are licensed, Me and Dr. Cordo
Categories:
hypnotherapist, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Limerick
pyramid outlines glazed against desert skyline
castles and teepees in recesses of her mind
daydreams and nightmares she couldn’t shake
through the modern world she tries to break
feeling out of whack
she struggles to look back
knowing her present does not seem contemporary
each incarnation is but temporary
only a famous hypnotherapist
finds a way her mind to untwist
“Many Lives, Many Masters”*
through time’s tunnel she falls faster
discovering what had once been blocked
now with the keys, past lives unlocked
her love for Native American art
born of memories carried not in her heart
but in her eternal soul
modern life just part of a whole
now she knows why she’s not contemporary
but feel no desire to be ordinary
*”Many Lives, Many Masters” was a best seller by Dr. Brian Weiss,
who used hypnosis to uncover the past lives of a patient suffering
from confusion and bad dreams.
Entry for Joe’s “Contemporary” contest
Categories:
hypnotherapist, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme