Poems for Mental and Spiritual Healing

By Rufus Johnson

I started to write because of reoccurring memories. I work all day I could not shut my mind down. All my memories from childhood keep coming back while I wanted to rest. My inner voice is talking to me which made me decide to write words down. I decided to put them in writing for the others to relate to. That serves as an inspiration for me to write poems and come up with the title "Mental and Spiritual Healing."

I call it Mental and Spiritual Healing because mental serves as my reoccurring memories and spiritual came much later because the poems took a life of it's own. I just hope to reach one person with my words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524673079

Rufus Johnson

I was born in Prince George County, VA on July 28, 1954. I grew up in Richmond VA. I went to Highland Springs High School and graduated 1974. I joined the Navy in 1975 and left in 1977, that’s two years later. I worked in Drywall Construction Trade for 30 years. I attended technical schools of electronics in Cleveland Institute of Electronics - A home study course where I got a two year diploma and attended Lincoln Technical Center - an automotive repair for one year with diploma. I worked for a total of 40 years, retired on social security and making money doing pick up jobs.

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/22/2019

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Contents

1.     Acceptance

2.     America

3.     Angels around Us

4.     Anger and Time

5.     Between Us

6.     Birds

7.     Crash to the Flow

8.     Change

9.     Choices

10.   Compassion

11.   Defeat

12.   Dominate

13.   Dreams

14.   Empty Love

15.   Enough

16.   Escape from Negativity

17.   Exempt

18.   Fallen Star

19.   Forever

20.   Forget

21.   Freedom

22.   Give

23.   Good

24.   Hatred

25.   Heartbeat

26.   Help Needed

27.   Here

28.   Hope

29.   I Can

30.   In the Sands

31.   Incomplete Path

32.   Jesus Christ

33.   Knocks

34.   Let Me Go

35.   Life Mountains

36.   Life Spirit

37.   Love Conquers

38.   Lying Mirror

39.   Make Up

40.   Numbers

41.   Order

42.   Our Souls

43.   Out

44.   Path

45.   Peace Be Still

46.   Pray for Healing

47.   Protection

48.   Put Down

49.   Relax

50.   Remembrance

51.   Restless Soul

52.   Seasons

53.   Seed

54.   So Much to Be Thankful for

55.   Someone

56.   Stay

57.   Stop

58.   Strange

59.   Street Life

60.   Success

61.   Surrender to Love

62.   Thank You

63.   This World

64.   Thunder and lightning

65.   Time

66.   Too Far

67.   Treasure Today

68.   Treatment

69.   Tricks

70.   Uncertainty

71.   Understand

72.   Unspoken Words

73.   Unthinkable

74.   Wasting

75.   What Will Be

76.   Whatever

77.   Who Cares

78.   Why Worry

79.   Without Light

80.   You Say

Acceptance

4-27-2012

Conform to God’s will.

His divine will.

Shout with joy for His presence.

Try to walk right.

Only one life to live.

That will be accepted.

Meditate on His goodness

By being righteous

And fearing His power.

Some do not

Stay away from the bad.

The bad will not be accepted.

Our hearts grow closer.

His words get stronger.

We see Him more clearly.

We accept all His grace.

Deliver to us in abundance.

Only real power man has

Is God’s power.

Seeking His counsel for guidance.

Our experiences in life

Leads to God.

Our only stable

Reality is with God.

Mold ourselves to His will.

God the Great, I Am.

Looking from above, He sees all.

Observing our hearts

One by one

Through our souls.

Acceptance only counted by our deeds.

America

9-28-2005

We love you, America.

You are great, maybe the greatest.

Beautiful like no other.

With graces skies

From sea to shining sea.

We are trying

To see true America

When all else fails.

We are still here.

And they do drop in.

Granted perfect, you are not.

We all witness.

Need