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Incomprehensible! (A Brief Critique)
Monomaniacally, Thomas Sterns Elliot
wrote in The Waste Land a Lyrical Lay
Sadly for those of us hollow like other men
Incomprehensible! Take it away!
The incomprehensible love of God
Softens the heart and mind;
Leads us to repentance,
So forgiveness we do find.
Upon the cross of Calvary,
The mystery of redemption began.
God’s love for all humanity—
The whole wide world to span.
We can choose to resist God’s love,
But without resistance will be drawn;
Drawn to the foot of the cross;
A transformation to be born.
This incomprehensible love
Influences the heart and soul;
Unconsciously works upon the mind,
And quickens the conscience to roll.
Such incomprehensible love
Is foreign to those who deny
To seek truth and their Savior
And will perish in the nigh.
Their hearts are full of selfish pride
Of what they’ve accomplished;
Denying God’s hand over their lives,
And His Spirit that has diminished.
God’s incomprehensible love
Gives a sincere desire to do right.
To seek love and peace for all,
Rather than antagonism and fight.
Only the broken and contrite heart
Feels the true need of a Savior;
The need of His incomprehensible love;
His mercy, pardon and unmerited favor.
Copyright © Maureen LeFanue 2011
www.godsgreetings.org
Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,
Scientific American and Foreign Affairs,
have an affair with an American.
Oh, and by the way, before you ask, I'm from Mars.
Orbiting your planet, admiring the girls.
Paraphrasing prayers by George Herbert to share
with Jesus believers on talk radio shows
where we try to bring your lives into expressible states
before it’s too late and climate change inundates you.
Reversed thunder, savior-side-piercing spear,
one day you’re feeling fine, the next not.
We’re pretty matter of fact, clear about
the fact of death. Once you’re gone most of us forget
your face and previous accomplishments. The place
you lived is repopulated with the next generation (of aliens)
and that ought to be a comfort, a sort of restful
certainty all is well, nothing special need be done.
Bluebirds are back, crows are mating on the sky
and chasing hawks away from their nests. Juncos
and sparrows glean together. I hear pileated woodpeckers
jackhammering and barred owls hooting soothingly.
Herons smoothing feathers and spearing fish.
Everything is as one would wish.
Numberless are the world's wonders
but none more wonderful than aliens.
It seems that man can never comprehend
The carnal thrust of lust we all must trust;
As human minds design no plan to end
Carnality 'till man converts to dust.
When facets of our lives are added new,
Atop existing layers of the truth,
Environments of learning do renew
The curious intensity of youth.
We are allotted exploitation needs
Of broadened exploration, to negate
Hyperbole and altered truth, that bleeds
Intolerance resplendent in its hate.
But time can lead a child inside deceit
Perpetuating common fallacies
Supported by revisionist conceit
Transparent in their false realities.
Revise, revise the facts you little whores
Enjoy the crime of falsifying past
And make it easy there behind closed doors
To witness fabrications that are vast.
The neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
Deny the Holocaust and all its pain.
They claim the nazi's had no final plan
And such a plan would simply be insane.
The camps became infested with disease
Another reason many prisoners died.
And academics shouting out their pleas:
"The Jews had our sweet Savior crucified. "
Today the truth revised and falsified
Comes straight from printers who with pride omit
The aboriginal great genocide
That many witnessed our own troops commit.
They state that in the scheme of things so grand,
Elimination of a race though sad,
Is something that we all should understand
But teaching it makes Anglo's very mad.
But history without integrity
Is empty exercise of false belief.
To understate the state of slavery
Will give the racist only brief relief.
The founders compromised morality
Allowing slavery to long endure.
Incomprehensible duality?
Just keep the facts wrapped up and children pure.
For us to live and thrive if not survive
We must admit the errors first and last;
If not we find inside our final dive -
Oblivion of splintered fragments past!
Now here I am floating in the vessel
The warmth still here in this body of water
Soon I shall release this flesh
Open the wound that pains me so
It is calling me now
A romance with the darkness
To think I am in control
I was given the master key
The key to me
I shall manipulate the how, the why
Don’t cry
Tears only pool my vision
Slowly I will descend into my shallow breath
Muffling under water distance echoes
I leaving this body now
Blue blood turns to scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons grow like hungry snakes
Soon the vessel bleeds a cardinal’s coat
Pale extremities adrift
Peacefully stagnant
Lifeless in winter’s abyss
Incomprehensible space/time continuum intrigues...
One insignificant, infinitesimal
incomprehensibleness cosmic speck,
who doth readily confess
swallowed within
infinite cosmic wormhole, nonetheless,
he feels mind boggled, fascinated,
transfixed... helpless to express
following concept suddenly
gripping his feeble mental compass.
I haint never gonna get
smart enough to understand
supposedly how universe
under contract to expand
subscribers embracing divine
intervention ascribe to invisible hand
cosmographical phenomena defies
garden variety *****sapien
understanding schema so grand
feeble analogy whereby
Neanderthal apt to understand
lingual mechanics predicated
I grammatically, markedly, pointedly...
exclaim with ampersand.
No particular reason nor rhyme
prompted contemplation
Einsteinian/ Stephen
Hawking concepts sublime
defy one average guy
way past his prime
ideal, optimal, universal... time
to fortify i.e. cognitive ability
brewing, immersing, steeping... gray matter
within astrophysicist clime,
now punishing ignorance mime
limited aptitude climb
stymied best taught during childhood
undoubtedly education pioneer - Haim
Ginott speculate would even
advocate buzzfeeding fetus
with intelligent boosting enzyme.
I chomp at the metaphorical bridled bit
and chafe not being genius like Trump pit
ing president (gag me with a spoon),
and lemme don pith helm mitt
this crash test dummy, whit
no shadow of doubt ready to quit
human race if said nitwit
nabs 20/20 election twit
tilling, spindling, mutilating,
fondling... constitutional sacred writ
issuing dynastic emperor gambit
hastening cremated ashes (mine)
launched into distant orbit
bajillion light years
careering, hopscotching, zipping
eventually reincarnated into runny Babbit
ironically enslaved for profit
blindly obedient dagnabbit,
indentured as intergalactic caddy
fired while under probation as apprentice
up Paul ling lee forced to exit
Sartre's stage door left sporting
embarrassing MAGA prison outfit
hustled away courtesy
as laughingstock exhibit.
Thus, I helm ship of state into black void
alone within cosmos, yes...overjoyed!
The more life experiences
The more incomprehensible
Power of life
The incomprehensible
The sun was just going behind the westerly ridge
it had been a hot day, and the sun appeared angry
for a cosmic reason, and we don`t even know our
Mind and what influences it. A young man rents
A truck drives down the boulevard on Bastille Day
for a reason, we can only guess at as it has little to
do with Islam a faith he didn`t strictly follow like
Most Muslims, a simple principle observed because it
is customary the way it is among Christians too.
An overheated brain little of education, reading
books how badly France had behaved in his land
once upon a time, an easy catch for those who
sow discontent for its own good.
You can have gendarmes and soldiers on every
street corner, bombs and helicopters scanning
dark windows with intense beams of light but you
the cannot read people' mind or their feelings.
We can reduce this absurd killing of the innocent
by including the disfranchised into our life listens
to their grievances and respect views that are not
sprung from our culture.
It is deep in the night now dogs bark something
has desorbed their peace but soon they go back
to sleep till the sun rises in the east and a coup
is in the making.
Cannot comprehend
Nor decipher
When amber
Street lamps flicker
Like some sort of
Morse code
No one ever told me
I was made to do anything.
Like those kids
picked out last in gym class.
I say it is fine
and that nothing happened,
but inside I am seven again,
holding my mother's hand
and with eyes full of half-frozen tears
I ask her, why?
An incomprehensible world
Everything is changing, always in this life and world
Everywhere, there is no fixed point in life, no stable
The ever changing-world has no heart, lives to die, and die
Why? Sometimes to relax, be quiet, and listen to the heart
These are so nice things, to enjoy the feelings of soul
But our world is too material. Hm, where is the nature?
I don’t understand our life, the life, what gave me my life
What is coming later? Why good the insensitive life? Life??
Can not be understandable for me this life. Life, be life!
Incomprehensible
Incomprehensible is a real thing, just believe it, and your mind will create
Create and get it. That's what you want from life, in the existence of life
Life, maybe not now, the goal may be a bit far, far from your present life
Yeah, the reality always exists, only sometimes it is hidden or forbidden
Mysterious forces control you, this is your fate, yours, but not from you
You can drive yourself with the secret knowledge of the supernatural powers
This power is forbidden; only the initiated can get it. The chosen individuals
So incomprehensible is it could be accurate, and it is that in another life
Here or there?
Where?
There
Where?
Here
So it is done
a forest
of stars
shine
bright...
gleam,glimmer,
to give
a glimpse
of the
immortelle...
an
endless vision
of eternity..
in undefined
expectancy
Since time immemorial
happenstance bestowed *****sapiens
ability to become self aware
double edged figurative sword
allowing, enabling, providing...
forebears of yesteryear
to marvel at life, and
reckon with death,
which mixed blessing
confronts twenty first century
man/womankind with dilemma,
albeit reconciling mortality
linkedin with consciousness
heightened, tested, under_scored...
particularly at demise dearly departed
inadvertently affect
upon surviving family members
hijacking, offsetting, upending...
fracturing emotional composure
prompting immediate questions
regarding purposefulness living
nee, being born essentially to die
predestined to pass away
identical fate decreed upon
all animals and plants
bolstered by believing deity
foreordained every creature
past, present, and future,
yet most pronounceable afflicting
non denominational, non
religious, non sectarian
case in point Unitarian,
vis a vis visa versa secular humanists,
especially nonsensical poet wannabe
riddled with perplexity
about nature of being alive
wondering what explains
essence constituting individual fluke
finding meaning scuttling
across world wide web
hither and yon, to and fro
dumbfounded at futility
absolute zero adequate answers
(again, unless one subscribes
to codified doctrinal dogma
i.e. religion, faith, creed...)
I attest as garden variety primate
baffled, flummoxed, nonplussed...
why chance genetic dice throw
gifted me finite time
solely to contemplate
(more than just my navel)
meaningfulness analogous
to scrutinizing Möbius strip
unable to identify
inscrutable mystery
defining random existence
specifically essence
happenstance/circumstance begat me
Matthew Scott Harris.