Eden's Day

By James E. Hopkins

Take an uplifting soulflight throughout the illimitable space of life, living, and spirit in James E. Hopkins' first collection of heart-stirring, thought provoking poems. In Soul Songs, Spirit Ways, and Itlani Dreams, three distinct but related pathways, share the joys and sorrows of life, meditations of the heart in the universal ways of spirit and connection to the Divine, and amazing visits in realms of imagination and inner vision to the mysterious world of the beautiful desert planet Itln. Unfurl the wings of the inner you and come along for the ride to realms of heart and soul you've often dreamed of. Eden's Day will take you there and back again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 9, 2008
• ISBN: 9781467823227

James E. Hopkins

James E. Hopkins is a healer, metaphysician, dancer, poet, storyteller, fiction writer, and linguist (he created and speaks Itlani fluently, a language he created for his upcoming "sword and planet" fantasy novel). He holds a B.A. in French from Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY and a Masters in Philosophy from the American Institute for Holistic Theology, Birmingham, AL.   Jim loves reading and writing in French, ltlani, English and Esperanto. He enjoys history, philosophy, spirituality, metaphysics, maps, flags, scripts and languages (both natural and constructed), sci-fi, and fantasy (especially Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien). His favorite poets are Emily Dickenson and Walt Whitman. And oh yes, he loves cats.

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EDEN’S DAY

by

James E. Hopkins

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© 2008 James E. Hopkins. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 1/2/2008

ISBN: 978-1-4343-3262-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4678-2322-7 (ebk)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007906659

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Cover art by Karen Berklund

Contents

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE: SOUL SONGS

EDEN’S DAY

CLIMBING THE HIGH CEDARS

COMMUNION

COCKROACHES COVERED

IN LINDT

DOWN BY THE COLD STREAM

FALSE LEATHER HAPPINESS

SPACES

MATER DOLOROSA

NO NEED

TOWARD THE LIMIT

NOWHERE SEEN

STAY

TIMBERLINE

MIST

AN ISLAND IS A NAME I KNOW

NEITHER GOODS NOR FAME

DRY

FALL

NEVER

THE WIND WAS HIGH

NEGLECTED

I SEE YOU

ICE-ROSE

DAMSELFLIES

DRONE ON, YOU HATEFUL BORE

9/11 TAUGHT ME

SNOWFLAKE CRISPING

RAISE HIGH THE CUP

IF I SHOULD FALL

RIVERS

BELOW ITS BEST

BEFORE THE DOOR

BASKING

PHONOLOGY

TIME TRAVEL

THE WAY BEFORE ME

LONGING

UNDER WEEPING BEECH TREE

TRUTH CHANGES

TWO DOORS DOWN

YOU TELL ME

OF THE DETONATION OF WORDS AND THEIR COTTONATION

DISTANT CALL

STINGRAYS SING THEIR SONG

IN THE FOREST OF THE DEAF

COLD MORNING BAREFOOT LOVE

RISING TIDE

JOURNEY LONG

TIGER AND THE SERPENT

THAW SHE GOES!

I’D LIKE TO LEAVE NOW

DAWN CAME

PLOD ON

MARBH LE TAE

RAIN FELL GENTLY

WESTERING SUN

SWEET WATER

THIS VAST EXPANSE

LIKE A JOEY

MAGICAL FEELING

OSPREY

MONOGLOTTERY

THIS I SEE

BY CHOICE

FLYING FREE

WIDE OPEN

TEAPOT

POTTER’S CLAY

BOOK TWO: SPIRIT WAYS

MY HEART’S PARADISE

BLACK PIT

BASKETS FULL LEFT OVER

TO POPE JOHN PAUL II THE GREAT

CHRISTMAS NIGHT

FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW

I REMEMBER CHRISTMAS

FRENCH MONASTERY SOUP

MONASTERY CAT

BROKEN BELL

O ANCIENT BEAUTY, HOW I NEED…

O THOU BAHÁ

WARRIOR’S STAFF

GOLD

NAKED

PULSE

LIGHT

TEACHER

I HAVE RETURNED

POOL

RHYTHM

BOOK THREE: ITLANI DREAMS

TERRAN STAR

TA UBUPRÓN TA KOYA

DINI TIKARIAN

KHARAIT TALORSABÚT

SATÉL TALMENSHUNEK

TA ONARIT RAHÁ

GAZHÓN ANANA

HOME AGAIN

To Suzan, Zak and Jaleh Therese

A Blessing Without Measure

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are so many people who have touched me and inspired me along the way. It is hard to know where to begin.

Thank you Candy Kramer for being a forever friend and teaching me how to keep the magic in my life. Thank you Anthony Harris, my true soul brother, for inspiring me and giving me the courage to bring all the Itlani material to the light of day. Thank you Magic Circle Dance Theatre (Barbara Gluck, Cecilia Rutkovsky, Dolores Miller) for liberating the dancer in me, for being there always and inspiring my poems and stories. Thank you Harry and Harriet Ortgies for showing me what a life dedicated to the service of Humankind can really look like. Thank you Matt Pasca and Terri Muuss for demonstrating that art, life and spirit are all one iridescent fabric of love. Marc Hensen, thank you for teaching me that perseverance and a truly universal spirit go a long way, all the way to being truly human. Thank you Karen Berklund for sharing your art and support and the beautiful person that you are. Grace and Larry Cardano, your life and living centered on God and prayer fill me with awe and inspiration, thank you. Thank you to the Centering Prayer Group