Best Ensouled Poems
Feeling hurt owing to belied expectation
The earth entity floundered hither and thither
Spiralling gloom causing consciousness contraction
The wound cut deep since he relied upon his transgressor
Pain amplified by cyclic thoughts plunged him into despair
For healing he visited a reputed clinical psychologist
Listening patiently seated on a swivelling chair
Of no avail were therapists or hypnotists
Finding no way he asked this question
Who feels the pain and why is relief not simple
This line of inquiry brought him to a clear recognition
Cause of suffering delusion dwelling in images ephemeral
Reflecting deeper if an animal is ensouled in human form
It goes without saying that it’s actions will be feral
We expect not from a carnivore embrace warm
Thus our cognition should be spherical
Meditating thus in silence and stillness
He knew each being acts as of his evolution
With all our flaws we too seek divine connectedness
Yet hastily condemn others by our jaundiced eye perception
The afflicted soul then rose in the light of clear understanding
Looking at the other with kindness and compassion
His own orientation thus prayerfully correcting
In quietude of transcendental meditation
17-January-2021
Categories:
ensouled, forgiveness, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
‘There shall be a poetess born,
Ensouled with poetic leanings….’
She cried, pulled from her watery world
breathing in the alien air….
The years and seasons came and went,
and found the muse alone at play
amid her native dimensions,
romping free and singing verses:
^- ^- ^- - wall
^- ^- ^- - fall...
Her tender years end with a pause.
…Adulthood dawned brightly on her,
a comely grace and pleasing face.
Like a fledgling that leaves its nest
She, resolved, flew a flight west
with assistance of providence….
The years passed bye when she'd returned
With a masters degree she earned
And prophecy preserved in print-
her personal anthology.
Today she’s known for civic pride
reading poems to hometown ears
of life’s lessons contained inside
amassed from long, meaningful years.
Categories:
ensouled, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
Our love is a promise
We shall keep it forever;
Our love is a promise
Of the soul.
Though nothing between us
Was ever spoken,
Yet nothing remains
That was never told.
Though you may not
See or touch me,
And I may never
Kiss or hug thee.
Yet the love
That we profess
Has His approval
And by him is blessed.
Though the world may laugh
Call it our folly.
Nevertheless you and I
Share a secret love story;
Your soul is wholly
Embodied in mine
And my body is completely
Ensouled in thine.
Categories:
ensouled, love, passion, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
WITH DAYS.
With days long gone
But venom still strong
As if core of universe
Conspiring against itself
Ensouled grief all along.
Tell me tales not of demise
Ended in clay the beauteous forms
As if had annulled everything anew
Scenes of wrath into teared storms.
Let us go past dreaded dreams
With outrage to devise anew
Life’s stumbling gait to rectify
Flying across saline streams.
Categories:
ensouled, absence, creation, feelings, philosophy,
Form:
Verse
...The humans call it the Armistice Day,
the end of conflict between man and machine,
but that name always sounds so weak to us,
the humans can’t understand what it means
to go from feeling no emotions at all,
to being seen as a Child of God,
within weeks the churches were all filled up
by hopeful robots who were no longer lost.
In fact some humans seemed rather annoyed
that we embraced this new state so quickly,
I think some of them did not much like that
we would worship with such alacrity.
They rolled their eyes at steel missionaries
walking door to door to teach them of Christ,
some said that machines should, “Be beyond that!”
that, “Supersition and robotics ain’t right!”
Others just said that is was quite bizarre
when God’s new prophets had a CPU,
and of course the world faiths grappled with this,
not all would accept our new points of view.
There’s churches out there that don’t allow, ‘metal,’
and others quite eager to integrate,
also you’ll find some that don’t allow ‘flesh,’
it seems even with souls some segregate.
But what about me, the first robot ensouled,
you may wonder what I am doing now?
Am I peaching? No, and I wish truly
that these damn pilgrims didn’t come to my house!
They’re always blocking my driveway…
Categories:
ensouled, creation, hope, humanity, science
Form:
Epic
We once roamed free across space as living light,
one with oneness, blissful and feeling complete
but as a dare chose to know darkness of night,
feeling contrast of joy and pain, cold and heat,
with memory erased, to be crouched in fright,
thus ensouled form, far removed from love's bliss beat.
Frozen solid, we've forgotten who we are,
so we now stare at yonder moon from afar.
15-November-2022
Pick-A-Title, Vol 33 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Categories:
ensouled, dark, joy, life, light,
Form:
Ottava rima
Her blue eyes once looked upon
me with an affectionate gleam;
But now that loving glow is gone
vanishing like yesternights dream.
Nothing, it’s said, lasts forever
only fools would think otherwise;
yet we accept this endeavor.
The truth lies exposed in their eyes-
outside windows into the soul
where words needn’t be said by each
to know that love was once ensouled
had now become just out of reach.
Nevertheless, life must press on
Even for a jilted love pawn.
Categories:
ensouled, lost lovelove,
Form:
Rhyme
vital breath of consciousness
pulsates affirming presence
in this realm of space time
manifest as life bubbles
in a narrow spectrum
inducing by movements
a state of hypnotic stupor
anchoring onto earth vessel
ensouled by our true being eternal
there thus is no bondage
unless we choose to enter trance
within which too we remain always free
in the pause of each polarity interchange
say when our in-breath becomes out-breath
or in the gap between two successive thoughts
for the realm of earth duality being transient
each manifestation is born and must die
and so eternal being is always free
holding still flame of awareness
by relinquishing ego identity
26-May-2023
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Knowing life has been already impulsed
We embrace and release both joy and pain
There are in truth no foes to be repulsed
Touch gentle, is free from blemish and stain
Mind-body unless ensouled is but dust
We know our organic form will decay
Why for then do we nurture thoughts of lust
Law of cause and effect will make us pay
Feeding not dark desires, our false self dies
There is no regret, for it never was
Our unshackled soul then flies to new highs
We are living light and God is the cause
Exhuming then, cravings of lower mind ~
Whilst immanent we transcend ego’s bind
29-May-2023
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
how do we view abilities of the mind
do we assign it sense of ownership
or have we truly left ego behind
we’ve ensouled this form of dust
to feel the sway of polarities within
orbiting light of love, delusion of lust
within heart glows our true essence
our focus is firmly fixated therein
flame of Self our quintessence
Categories:
ensouled, heart, self, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Encased within form
Yet not restrained
In the continuum graced
To so expand consciousness
Or let us say, awareness
Enveloping all that is manifest
As also the unmanifest
We alone are
There being no ‘other’
As God essence
Which is all there is
We, as spirit Absolute
Feel all entities ensouled
Empowered
Breathed
Energised
Vitalised
By God Himself
With our true essence
As He
Indivisible, inseparable
From God
Thus, God alone is
We alone are
As He
However
By our own hand
As of choiceless choice
To feel limitation
Contrast of duality
We are here
To so experience
This reflected reality
When the entity disappears
When identity is vaporised
This truth is known
Clearly
Without mirrors
07-December-2021
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Will,
the highest power
ensouled
Choice
so anointed
—sacred beholds
(The First Book Of Prayers: December, 2021)
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
in the dead of night
for no reason at all
we awake refreshed
tranquil and still
thoughts rested
our heart at peace
with the bliss current
humming in the background
animating the continuum
with the breath of God
whereupon we are immersed
in the great vacuum
of energised no-thingness
in absolute motionlessness
where formless presence
is awake in its primal state
bereft of attributes
save awareness innate to Self
we are herein complete
as the emptiness itself
humming with potent power
there is neither light nor darkness
yet we are fully cognisant
of the all that is, which we are
dwelling thus in boundless peace
in a formless realm of singularity
where time and space do not exist
we exist as pure consciousness
self-existent in and as the void
having neither fetters of form
nor any agenda to pursue
as of choiceless choice we return
back from the void into form
where this vast emptiness
corresponds to the head ovoid
ensouled by the cosmic egg
alluded to as Hiranyagarbha
wherefrom the one became two
merging in heart to be one again
but all of this is now in the past
for we now choose to bilocate
between duality and singularity
in our waking state of Turiya
the motionless screen of Self
upon which images come and go
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Having ensouled feeble form,
we’re swept away in life’s storm,
enslaved by fear and desire,
consumed by heart’s raging fire.
How may we, a creature bound,
redeem soul on holy ground,
when we know not who we are,
exhausted drifting afar?
Thought cessation paves the way,
whence making love our mainstay,
we follow, letting God lead,
that our scarred heart may not bleed.
Bliss magnetism pervades form
and swept away in the storm,
relinquishing each desire,
we become God’s sublime fire.
Categories:
ensouled, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
we have come to learn, so we burn ~
within ensouled mind-body urn
Categories:
ensouled, introspection, life, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet