Devotional Poetry

My Soul Speaks (19 Poems)

1
Wings

I want wings
to lift me beyond the bonds of earth,
and let me float upon thermal currents.

2
The Soul Speaks

I was created,
         believing in humanity's immortality!
This is a creature with unique abilities,
a larva upon the material plane
at death it becomes a lepidoptera freed from its pupa case.

I stepped out of eternity,
         born into physical reality!
I became a creature blind to its own spirituality:
A larva newly hatched from the egg,
See the pupa as the end - not a developmental stage.

I am bound to a physical body,
         by steel=like cords that could cripple me!
Free will gives me the choice of two destines:
does the larva feeding its own desire,
Condemn the butterfly to Hell's eternal fire?

My vision is that of duality,
         poised between two realities!
Body and spirit together compose a single entity:
for the larva flight is an impossible dream,
to the butterfly being earthbound an illusion seems.

3
Questions About Energy

At death
will someone jump start
my battery?

Does my battery
run on spiritual energy?

4
The Soul's Song

Deathless I sing!
Voiceless I cry!
Wordless I speak!
My wings unclipped I soar into the boundless sky,
and seek beyond death's door the worlds of my desire.
I dive unfettered by tank or mask into the eternal deep.

My song,
is unsung by lips,
unheard by ears,
and played by the spheres.

5
My Soul Speaks

I am water
breaking against
embankments of the spirit.

I am a flame
consuming the passions of matter.

I am a mirror
reflecting the Glory of God.

6
Questions About Faith

What is it you want from me?
Do you want me to say
that only one religions is the truth,
that only one religion leads
to heaven,
and all the rest to hell?

God exists!
He is beyond all religions,
and contained in all religions.

7
Questions About My Identity

Who dwells in this body
created by the conjunction
of egg and sperm?

Am I only
a composition of nature?

What animates these atoms
in love with themselves?

Does a spirit
give my body life?

Creation of God
or composition of nature?
Why can't the answer be both?

8
Reality Calls

The train's whistler
generates
a longing in my breast
to step
beyond the narrow bounds
of Ego's reality.

The dove's coo
awakens
within my soul
the desire
to rise above dogma's walls
and fly
beyond man-made reality.

9
Soul-Life

Formless
I am bound to form
By an umbilical cord of gold

10
Thirsty

Thirsty
Verdant plants droop
For lack of water in
The desert on hot summer day
Thirsty

Thirsty
The soul in the
Desert of self droops for
The lack of the water of life
Thirsty

11
One Wing

I wing my flight to heaven
a broken winged bird
flying on one wing.

12
When Hope Is Gone

When hope is gone and dreams depart,
A nothingness consumes the mind;
A nothingness fill with fear, hate, and sadness.

When hope is reborn and dreams return,
The nothingness shall perish;
Then upon the wings of faith and joy we pursue our destiny.

13
Happiness

Equate happiness
with the little things of life;
the inner person.

14
Responsibility

You can't go through life
blaming other people
for your failures.

At some time
you must take
responsibility
for your own actions
and inactions.

15
Vain Imaginings

Superstitions
Vain imaginings can kill
Can give power to our own irrational fears

16
Overcoming Insistent Self

To question or not to question
that is the challenge!

Whether it is nobler,
in the end,
to accept,
unquestioned,
the ego's desire to be BETTER
than others.

Or to take arms against
a sea of fear
and discover your true self.

17
Question for My Abuser

Those night you came into my room,
using fear to satisfy;
using ridicule to control;
what was it you did to my soul?

18
The Experience

It's the total experience that matters,
encompassing mind,
         body,
         and soul.

It stirs our emotions,
         with memories spoon
creating by physical and spiritual reactions.

19
The Evil Whisperer

Do not listen
to the Whisperer whispering,
whispering in your mind.

The Evil Whisperer
whispering to your hear and soul.

Do not let
the Whisperer's whisperings
turn you against God's Word.

Poet's Note: ▼

These poems were written over several years. They were inspired by meditation and contemplation on the immorality of the soul.