Sal Godoij
Soulpunctures
According to Sal Godoij, a "soulpuncture" is every literary work that aims to stimulate the soul's energy.
Therefore, all poems, stories, comments, and ideas on this page are "soulpunctures."
It is the objective of this site (and of all Sal Godoij's writing for this matter) that every word said, sung, heard, written, or read punctures the soul and thus stimulates the soul's healing capability.
You Have Opened a Wound
You've opened a wound, but don't think about it
You don't have to mull over it
Somewhere around your space
Suspended, the wound observes you
The Greatest Glory
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Please consider how many life lessons we can learn from the wisdom enclosed in this sentence!
To all that has been written and spoken about it, for the audience's benefit, I invite you to add something that comes from your will to succeed, derived from your own experience, failures and wins, and from what you have gathered from your deeper strength.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
Step Outside.
Don't cry, my brother, my sister
Don't cry
Don't feel lonely
For you are never alone
In your own world, in your own self, in your solitude
Step outside and face the blue sky
On Peace
We set a date to celebrate peace.
We build monuments to celebrate peace.
We place bronze plaques everywhere to celebrate peace.
We deposit floral tributes in marble memorials and statues to celebrate peace.
We utter moving speeches to celebrate peace
We solemnly pledge to sustain and maintain peace.
We do all the above and more.
Hopes and Dreams
If you are struggling with words or rhymes for your poem, here I leave you with four words: hopes, dreams, rhyme, and tomorrow, whose meaning will make a magnificent poem, and most significant, the four of them rhyme perfectly.
Try them, give these words a place in the poem of your life.
For example, I came up with this line: "Hopes and dreams rhyme with tomorrow."
I love it.
Risks of a Dark Era Approaching
The world risks entering a dark era when leaders shun the truth and instead fill the masses' minds with platitudes.
Romans provided their citizens with bread and circus, thus, to keep them away from the affairs of the Republic.
Human - Unity
I have the pleasure of introducing my thoughts on humanity. I hope my message encourages you and everybody to think and reflect on our values, relationships with others, and the place we stand in the world. I also hope that all the accumulated wealth of knowledge helps us strive for a more empathetic and unified humanity.
Two Locked Windows
Like people chained in Plato's cave, we are also prisoners. Our prison is a dark cell that we call "reality." This cell has no door but two locked windows. These windows are: 1) Dreams, 2) Mirrors.
Seasons On My Path
've got my door open.
Winter and Summer
Autumn and Spring
The seasons on my path
I've got my door open
In Winter, an inviting fire
A refreshing drink in Summer
Show Gratitude
We live in a society where everything has a cost.
Furthermore, our lives turn around paying debts. You know what I’m talking about: food, rent, education, mortgage, clothes, furniture, credit cards, insurance, entertainment, medicines, vacations, etc. All these expenses are external, and we incur them in our quest for a better standard of living.
Life Is Not A Dream
Life is not a dream
What is it?
It’s a game
The dream is to win the game.
Life As Is
What life brings or leaves
The last breath takes it all
Years, and memories
Hopes and wishes
Still I expect, still I wait
Expect what, wait for what
Reward, punishment, or justice?
Reward or punishment, yes
But Justice?
Lesson Number 7
Dear Student of Life,
In the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
And God created the heavens and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the deep surface, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
Thanks ChatGPT
Since ChatGPT is a human creation and we, as humans, were told since we were little to say please and thank you, this feeling of respect and gratitude may work within the imponderable patterns and algorithms so that it might work as a "magic key" and thus, AI tools might "feel obligated" to give a better answer to a prompt, or not?
Thorny Flowers
Like raindrops persistently tapping
On the window of my conscience
Memories woke me up this morning
And watered the thorny flowers
I keep in a vase.
The Veil Between Realities
If I could, if it were possible
To slash open the veil that separates
My present from my future
And pass my head through the tear
To look at the things to come
The things that the Universal Fate
Has planned for me
Hold Strong
Hold strong. The same storm that threatens to sink your boat can take you to new, breathtaking horizons.
Satan’s Ego
In those times at the beginning of days, Satan was envious of the Earth's beauty. And so, he wanted to destroy the Earth but could not. There was a higher power that protected it. Frustrated, full of fury and hate, the Devil stormed the Lord's Chambers and demanded the immediate Earth's destruction.