Devotional Poetry

19 Questions With Spiritual Implications

Nineteen Questions
With Spiritual Implications

1

Does the belief in reincarnation
have anything to do with humanity's
tendency toward procrastination?

2

Is there a point
in the evolution of a soul-possessing species
that it is unable to understand
the concept of a sing creative force?

3

Why is the world dysfunctional?
Is it because brotherhood needs publicity?

4

What was the unseen historical
and spiritual impetus
that generated the women's rights struggle?
Who are the heroes and martyrs of this struggle?

5

Is life more
Then mere chemical reaction;
Then atoms held together by molecular attraction?

6

Black clouds gather
like rain the bomenow fall.
"Mama! Papa!" The frightened children cry:
Both are dead,
who will answer the children's call?

7

What is the engine in your soul
that keeps you going in your faith
despite test and difficulties?

8

Who is in the hands of God
on a summer night
when crickets sing to the man in the moon,
olives ripen on their trees,
and a black and white cat
lays on top of a red car?

9

Is ice skating a metaphor
for life on the material plane?

10

Is Earth a living entity,
and is humanity its soul?

11

Is faith
knowing that an item
will appear as tangible reality?

12

How is the human brain
prepared to accept data?

13

Am I that piece of living clay,
That someone idly fashioned one day,
Which bears the marks of the artist's hand,
Both those planned and unplanned?

14

Is it justice
to fire an individual
because of organizational
membership?

15

Am I only a composition of nature?

16

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

17

Does my soul give my body life?

18

What animates
these atoms in love with each other
and themselves?

19

Creation of God
or composition of nature:
Why can't I be both?

Poet's None: ▼

These are poem that I wrote over several years, which I combined into one poem.