Soft-Spoken Limericks about Soul Searching

This set of limericks about soul searching hardly needs an introduction. But I would like to say that soul searching is one of my highest priorities when I set out to write a limerick. What I’d really like to do is write a limerick that can save the planet. In the meantime, let me just try and save my soul.

     Intensive Purposes
     This world gives me cause to be curious
     For the meaning of life is mysterious
               That we even exist
               Makes it hard to resist
     The belief that our purpose is serious

     Pilgrim’s Process 
     Searching for God I took leave like a pilgrim
     Asked in the churches and heard that they’d killed Him
               Consulted the sages
               And wisdom of ages
     And finally arrived at the laughter of children

     Overstimulation 
     This presence of abundance of awareness
     Is there something for which it prepares us?
               When every new system 
               Brings new forms of wisdom
     It shakes us and wakes us and scares us

     The Ride of Your Life
     You exit this world as you enter: alone
     Charging ahead on a path of your own
               Single but bound
               To the world all around
     A party of one on a little blue stone

     Elusive Answers  
     Philosophers wonder and question and chatter
     Pursuing the absolute truth of the matter
               It’s there, I believe it
               You just can’t achieve it
     Like reaching the moon with a fourteen foot ladder

     Eclectic Reflections 
     Raising uncertainty—there’s a vocation
     The Truth of it All is a full-time fixation
               It’s just so much fun when
               I’m peeling my onion
     But still nowhere near a concise explanation 

Further Reading

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