Long Belongingness Poems

You're worth it

I want to start this by saying forgive yourself
You don't deserve the tears that falls from your face that makes way for your sadness to manipulate your whole personality
You don't deserve to be...

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One day

One day you are born as an infant 
As you cry others were in celebration
That a new child is born unto your family
Innocently sucking your mother’s breast
As you felt a haven in the warmth...

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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...

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Oracle 
(Noun :  a priest or priestess 
acting as a medium 
through whom advice or prophecy 
was sought from the gods in classical antiquity.) 

He speaks in Virtue 
She is a sign language interpreter...

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I had by no means celebrated Christmas in the past with such love
                  Until thy lord presented thee...

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"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." John 6:37 of the King James Bible

Oppressive rejection and its attacking pain
Vanquished...

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Home is my actual 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...

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" To act in a play in front of an empty theatre, surely does not evoke one's greatest performance. Human contact is imperative " ~~The Returning Poet~~

On a silken thread a purpose to be.
A woven...

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Vacation 2019 --- wondrous indeed
From regular work routine, joyously freed
Toward fruitful clan reunion I did heed
Cognizant that God blesses heritage-breed.

Precious with every significant feature
Marked by program revealing tribal culture
Such meeting of warm and sweet kindness’...

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Recipient of love letters 
with bliss-delight
I appreciate messages 
in their passionate earnestness.
Here am I nostalgic 
of affectionate expressions 
...worth sharing especially with a special friend 
awaiting her wondrous altar date.*

…You’re the beauteous Eve
who completes my...

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Admitting need for solace from lonesomeness
My soul seeks hope propped by serene blissfulness
To overcome feeling of separateness
Imprisoning me around guilt’s awfulness
Fortified upon conceit and selfishness---
Oh, how can I escape from this woe’s grievousness???

Confessing to God...

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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...

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Oh, how sweet it is to ponder
love notes, surpassing heartfelt ecstasy
expressed with divine endearment---

…You’re the beauteous Eve
who completes my ribs
as it finds belongingness in yours
toward one flesh partnership 
of cleaving and clinging 
marked by commitment's...

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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...

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There is no place in the universe
Without doors.

Even the earth needs doors.
A door opens to mornings.
A door lets us out under high-noon sun.
A door welcomes us back to sunset.
And then all doors close,
Swallowing darkness,
Only to...

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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...

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The Lion’s den is where a man could think
Not a way to escape, but to speak.
To look further beyond his pride and stubbornness,
See through his inner soul’s desired belongingness.

But in order to be in a...

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“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...

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CHRIST* the Lord God reached down to grant love gift
Hope-filled, joyous toward heavenly lift…
Redemption and assured life eternal
Inspiring great spiritual revival
Satisfying beyond what’s temporal…
Transforming heart as in Him I delight
Meaningfully illumined by truth’s light
Anchored upon...

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"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast…" Proverbs 12:10 of the King James Bible

Belonging to where I’m loved warmly well
My best “dogistically” does excel
Since puppy times of varied joyous days
Fed and sufficed in...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Clinging to intimate family ties
Outstretching love the soul never denies
My heart yearns for home*, priceless and precious
Inspired by dear parents, indeed gracious
Now missing great times, spirit-nourishing
Geared am I for revival ~~~ flourishing…

Braced by secured belongingness...

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