Best Belongingness Poems
“I love you, dearest daughter.”
Sweet melody of my mother’s care
Along her nurturing, comforting concern
Still reverberates in my heart… always inspiring.
“I love you, darling girl.”
Assuring lyric my Dad voices out
Harmonizing with his lingering presence
Echoes memories of family fidelity, devoid of dissonance.
“I love you, blessed sister.”
Uplifting affirmation of acceptance
Blends with belongingness’ crescendo
While siblings’ cheer prevails as glad reunion-refrain.
“I love you, my Mommy.”
Blissful sound of pleasant staccato
My special son mumbles with triumph-glee
Midst his sign language rhythm of pure affection.
“I love you*, my child.”
Such is eternal music to my ears
Indeed, a gracious song from God, my Father
Soothing my soul, admonishing my faith, empowering my spirit.
*Jeremiah 31:3 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
February 14, 2019
2nd place, "Music to my Ears" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One; judged on 2/16/2019.
Before… I beheld her quivering, shirking---
suffocation gripped her with my envelopment;
breaking free from the gentleness I exuded
she would scamper wailing…
as if scorched by my belongingness’ warmth.
After painstaking therapeutic sessions
offering my compassion-propelled embrace
I witnessed her, gradually yielding to me
succumbing to my love-blest invitation…
devoid of resistance.
Graciously overcoming
grievous traumatic hug-pressure
she confessed that she’s healed
from domestic violence, by the mercy of God*…
Who rescued her against lustful and incestuous hugs.
Now… with serenity's bliss
she’s cheerfully reaching out to others
letting them feel kindness-driven hugs
sealed by care, concern, and comfort...
precious blessings of earnest bonding.
*Psalm 52:8 ... I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
June 6, 2020
8th place, "Hugs" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Craig Cornish; judged on 6/14/2020.
Nestled within loving home’s nurture
inside family, shielding against hatred attacks
having parents as human fortress, greatly steadfast
around siblings exuding sweet belongingness-warmth…
Verily blessed am I to experience wondrous heaven on earth.
Called to be a part of the body of Christ
worshiping the Lord with brethren in spirit and in truth
praising, adoring the Saviour for His compassion so great
midst ministerial stewardship for reaching-out along caring bliss…
Indeed privileged am I to have a part in fulfilling heaven-propelled endeavors.
Illumined with the Holy Spirit
bought with the blood of my Redeemer
sustained against ephemeral cravings of the flesh
geared to behold magnificence of the Deity by trust’s vision...
My heart longs to dwell in heaven where the Triune Providence reigns forever.
Steadfast in advancing God's kingdom
declaring the Gospel according to the Bible
that the Father, love-driven, sent His only begotten Son
Who did sacrifice Himself willingly for mankind’s redemption…
Here am I prayerfully leading others via the ordained Way to heaven.
Thanking the Almighty for gift of eternal life
through faith in the Messiah --- the way, the truth
now ransomed, re-created, imparted with divine nature
to please Him, walking in His righteousness along holy paths…
Privileged am I to be among His peculiar people, sanctified heaven* residents.
Excited for the celestial abode with streets of gold
delighted to inhabit great mansion built by the Sovereign
persuaded upon Scriptures’ truth that in His realm peace dominates
of no sickness, no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither pain**…
I exalt GOD, Who in His mercy, grace, and kindness, ushers me to heaven!
*Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
**Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
May 31, 2020
3rd place, "Heaven" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Regina Riddle; judged on 6/2/2020.
20 February 2010
Love In Square
By: Noel N. Villarosa
Love, in time grows to pure ------------------------------------------------------ LOVE
Is it just friendly, sympathy, or affection that I feel it ------------------------- IS
In urge of belongingness, kindness, and moments that I feel with ---------- IN
This is the greatest gift to live and die with ------------------------------------ THIS
Square competition in the name of love, you need to -------------------------SQUARE
There are times when you sit alone
You sit to reflect your life
Reflect what you have achieved
Reflect what matters to you the most
Reflect on your valuable time
Reflect on the people you hang around
Reflect on your life
Reflect on our past, present and future
Reflect gives a sense of belongingness
A identity that sometimes we keep hunting throughout our life yet couldn't find
Reflect is a mirror which shows you what you never wanted to see....
O ' My Master, Bat my hat with your pat
My hat is my ego, my arrogance
Which I rare take off when enter near Thee
You being master pat it so not be inflated.
Life after life has accumulated and stored
None but your enemy-the Ego which poses
Hindrance to reach to you and get assimilated
My master, groaning my heart for your Love
Come like a Dove in my lap
Hatch my eggs of honesty and humility
So I may fly high to scale the inaccessible
Day and night i am burdened with the pain of
False attachment this world gives us false hopes of belongingness
But what happens with the turn of events
All our well wishers who stood with us once
Now have shown the exit door ajar
What does it happen God made the relationship to caress you
but we have got entangled in that web
Which was never true never had any substance
but we poor fellow got enmeshed in to it
Now my saviour come and help me overcome my sorrow genes
To atone my sins and be with you
Since you are infinite and me finite
Let us enjoy and get unite
Govind Prasad Goyal
Assistant Professor
IMS Law College, Noida (UTTAR PRADESH) India 201303
Home is my Eden where You, my God, nourish me with Your bounty
Embracing me around warm belongingness of family love delight
Assured with security presence, barring disloyalty attacks
Fenced by Your providential guarding leadership!
Home is my primary faith-builder, bringing me close to You, my Creator…
As Dad and Mom exposed me to Your great omnipotence
Midst truths of miracles and realities of mysteries
Especially of personal relationship with Christ.
Home is my serene haven that has taught me genuine contentment
With my parents thanking You, Oh, Lord for Your daily blessings
Combatting dissatisfaction of materialism-angst
Subduing greed, covetousness and envy.
Home is my joyous commendation-source from Your wrought triumph, my God
Exemplified by my family’s gladness, praising You over every milestone
Be it birthday, graduation, anniversary, or any worthy festival…
Prevailing is “Congrats for doing your best by God’s grace…”
Home keeps me linger more for mind and body’s much-needed rejuvenation
When outside tasks’ incessant demands echo loudly with painful pressure
Succumbing to relaxation’s pleasure, I stay in Your comfort, Holy Spirit
Refreshed by loved ones’ touch and embrace, verily therapeutic.
Home is my fortress-might against injustice and violence of whatever nature
Vanguard of biblical virtues-values, constantly championing righteousness
Where You, my dear Saviour reign as Master with compassion and truth…
In You is heaven on earth; with You soon is eternal paradise.*
*Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
August 9, 2019
2nd place, "My Home" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Lu Loo; judged on 8/20/2019.
In this special world:
Authenticity assails apprehensions and apathy
Beauty is braced by belongingness’ blessings
Compassion calls for clamor over caring control
Dedication with devotion defends any disability
Empowering while exhorting expressive exposure
Fostering family-fellowship, forgiving flaws
God-governed, graciously guarding and guiding
Hoisting, helping hearts to be happy and healthy
Influenced, ignited toward impactful inspiration
Jubilantly joyous; not jeered with unjust jest…
In this world of special children:
Kindness kindles kind kinship in their kingdom
Love leads, liberating lives midst laughter
Mercy matters most in mingling with their minds
Nice nurturing and nourishing are nevertheless nice
Optimism ought to overflow as openness is optimized
Prayer props progress while patience prospers performance
Quest for quietude quells questions and queries of quirks
Recognizing their responses renders reaction-readiness
Special is their status; such stature synthesizes social stigma
Triumphantly, they tackle their tasks toward thanksgiving…
In this world of my special child:
Understanding upholds his unfathomable untowardness
Virtues he valiantly values vanquish his vulnerability
Watching him win as workmanship of God* wakes me from whining
`Xpectant am I for his ‘xcellent ‘xpertise as `xceptional
Yes, I yield to Yahweh my son's “yeppi” and “yay” yells of victory-yearns
Zealous to zoom with him toward zenith of grateful zesty zing.
*Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
August 30, 2024
3rd place, "In a World where I do not Exist" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Silent One; judged on 9/7/2024
Blest with loving family’s vibrant care
I delighted in belongingness glow
Flowing through kindness to give and to share
Enjoyed by stuffed toys I could not let go.
I delighted in belongingness glow
As a child nurtured, counted as precious
Enjoyed by stuffed toys I could not let go
Midst prevailing warmth, so sweetly gracious.
As a child nurtured, counted as precious
My heart was nourished by home’s goodness feast
Midst prevailing warmth, so sweetly gracious
Extended to pets, never treated least.
My heart was nourished by home’s goodness feast
Around respect bond of comfort’s embrace
Extended to pets, never treated least
I thank God* for parents’ securing brace.
Around respect bond of comfort’s embrace
Flowing through kindness to give and to share
I thank God for parents’ securing brace
Blest with loving family’s vibrant care.
*Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord...
June 27, 2020
2nd place, "Feelings of Nostalgia" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper; judged on 7/18/2020.
It’s not a tale
The truth would bring to bear:
The old lion has gone mad again!
We lived in ancient houses made with mud
Days amounted to years long ago
The forests had survived it
The whites came, taught us to hew down trees
We fell most of these trees,
Moved to the city
The lion was the hunter’s best friend
He protected us, escorted us when we went on tours
There we tamed his teeth
And calmed his mind.
We lived in peace
Lo! Somehow now he bares his teeth
Tears humans into pieces
The old lion has gone mad again!
We feel insecure, the young ones
The pain must endure
Lost has been the lives of loved ones
Our souls we must guard too
We sleep at nights with many fears
The old lion we all know has gone mad again!
Who would recount our history?
Tell us to despise all the bad mysteries?
Who would urge us to forge ahead and fight on?
And guide us to heaven?
Our sense of attachment, our feeling of belongingness
To mother Africa is lost?
For the reason that ---
The old lion we tamed years ago
Has now gone mad?
Where are our aged herbalists, the gong-gong beaters?
Our linguists, the men of war?
Who would treat, cure--- soothe the old lion?
Who has gone mad again!
I had by no means celebrated Christmas in the past with such love
Until thy lord presented thee to me on Christmas Eve
In strings of joy it descends towards me as I Clive
Long before was I told of this day in my live
Be no haste for sure, you I shall love
In your sure way I will crave
My Christmas
Tree
Thou art epitomizes the accurate definition of happiness
A nectar of abundant bliss for the monarch in me yet to surface
A monarch yet to be awoken by the fragrance from thy enchanting smile
My Christmas gift, my first Christmas celebration
Thou hath brought upon me the true significance to live itself
And established me upright in the right course of my actual motive to celebrate
My twilight star from amongst the galaxy of my long and ever waited prayer beads
The light from my twilight Christmas star illuminates my spiritual being to glory
And driven away my ever melancholiest period of loneliness
My Christmas gift, my first Christmas celebration
Merry Christmas to thee, thou heavenly believer, she whispered
Those words pierced through my core values of love and belongingness
Casting a spell of fiasco at the miasma that dangled menacingly above my Christmas Ev
For in my entire existence had I ever listen to such words through my tympanic membrane
Those words left me dumfounded as I hunt for the root to my firm grounds
For my entire live they did continued to hunt my memory
Merry Christmas to thee, thou heavenly believer.
Why can't it be US?
Why does it have to be US?
We only wanted one's happiness
We just wanted love & belongingness.
Time & place, put us in regress
Worlds apart is our test,
Of life and love, so willing to offer
Because we are different, it is US who suffer.
I want to confess all the love I can give
Myself, my all, more than you can receive
You want to confess a life you can't share
Your life and self, you think is in despair.
Now, we are both in vain and agony
We are doomed in this love & fantasy
How to part ways without US being hurt & lost
The price of love & happiness we pay with so much cost.
Is it time to let go and bid farewell?
Wishing at the end, that we'll both be well
Is it time for us to say our hurtful goodbyes?
Last kiss, last hug, end it only with but a sigh.
I don't want to listen to the drops of rain
Each drop is our weeping, that will cause me pain,
I don't want to let go, I will stay even for a while
Because it's just too hard to say the last goodbye....
Sought by the Lord to nestle in His grace
My soul now finds belongingness serene
Secured around warmth of divine embrace
Orphaned no more against abandoned scene.
Midst God’s compassion assuring my heart
I rejoice to receive pardon divine
Settling me from sins by mercy’s rampart
As confession prevails over pride-whine.
Grateful to the Father’s adoption seal
Making me blessed heir through trust earnest
My blissful spirit worships in truth zeal
While serving with faith of triumphant zest.
My life I offer in running life’s race
Sought by the Lord to nestle in His grace.
Formed from varied wombs, love vessels so-called
we painstakingly faced the reality of growing up together
though nurtured … with compassion in one big home---
... propelled by care-givers toward triumphant journey.
While learning about family matters
our minds were confronted on parents’ whereabouts
then struggled to relate midst partnership endeavours---
... till prayerfully overcoming belongingness-insecurity.
In our status as once abandoned and orphaned children
surrendered, not by our choice, to a residential institution
never did we know our foot steps’ advancement---
... but are now assured of soul-assurance vis-à-vis eternal destiny.
Grateful to have been adopted and fostered
our hearts praise the Lord for His sovereign provisions
leading us, through faith, to salvation-islands along rescue streams---
... today, we're enabled to reach-out by His HIS grace* voluntarily.
*Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
October 11, 2021
4th place, "Islands in the Stream" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Craig Cornish; judged on 10/14/2021.
Was out for the whole day,
Went shopping and eating,
Wondered if there was,
A shop for feelings,
And emotions were served in the restaurant!
We all would buy the best of them,
Happiness, Surprise, Love, Pleasure, Peace, Humility and many more,
Would take emotions of the superior and fine quality!
Like those of Belongingness, Kindness, Compassion and Contentment!
Pondered a little more,
I realized whatever we choose,
'Feelings and emotions' are closely associated with what we pay for,
So there need not be exclusive stores for them!
Then a second thought came in my mind,
Would we then look for a wholesome meal at the cheap price?
Would we bargain then?
Would we then wait for discounts?
I asked myself,
And reflected,
We look for the ‘best deals’,
Everywhere and Everytime!