Temperatures are sizzling;
Fires burn and spread.
Salad sales are fizzling.
(Eat grass-fed beef instead!)
Immigrants are terrified;
Deportations rise.
Flat-out lies are verified.
Drones invade the skies.
News reporters get the boot.
Algae grows and blooms.
Secret deals to prosecute
Are made in private rooms.
Institutions once revered
Are shuttered or debased.
Everything we’ve always feared
Has happened, in such haste
It’s almost inconceivable,
Yet somehow it is real.
We know that it’s believable,
For nothing can conceal
The way the world is crumbling
And only those in charge,
Despite their shameful bumbling
And greed are living large.
I do not see a way to fix
How bad things have become,
For nature’s tricks and politics
Have made me sad and numb.
No matter what we think or say
Complete enlightenment
Is inconceivable
No matter if it’s what is
Always only here and now
Simply because it is
Incompatible with our mind.
(7/17/26)
The Indeterminate Constant.
All That Is And
All That Is Not.
Antithetical Product
Divided: [Quack.]
Superpositioned Entanglement
Touched By All Motive And
Motionless, Massless ENERGY!
Indeterminate Everything.
As An Identity:
Hoarse And Melodic
Indivisble
Inconceivable
Indeterminate
*** QUACK ***
And Anti-Climactic?
Quack Quack Quack
-Gray Squirrel
06-05-2026
A red horse deemed to be slow
A name never meant to glow.
Conceived with short-lived strengths
Energy of unknown, inconceivable running lengths.
Envisioned to tire fast
In races and places that never last.
Rolling thunder is its sounding gaits
Roller coaster in trudging haits.
Seasoned horse of the Seventies
Time of a racing icon.
Tempest of the Oval, grafitto in oblivion!
My incredible!
Almost edible!
Infrared and, well,
Ultraviolet!
Full of warmth and light -
Gorgeous, timeless sight
Taking mind on flight
To the never-land.
Your blonde hair swings down
On your velvet gown -
In you voices drown,
Like in concert hall.
Unbelievable!
Inconceivable!
Sun will rise and fall
On your gorgeous soul.
My enchantress, you!
Giant eyes of blue
Like a cloud that flew
Over turquoise skies
Singing melodies
Of the galaxies
Ending fallacies
And becoming wise.
Gentle like a dove,
You are queen of love -
I can't get enough
Of your tenderness!
Goddess of the sea!
How you sing to me
How I long to be
In your soft caress!
Cherry blossom, you!
All that's good and true!
Pink and white and blue
Like a carnival,
Like a rainbow, free!
How you spell-bind me!
How I long to be
In your darling soul!
In your love I'll swim
And your voice will sing
An eternal hymn -
No regret at all!
Inexorable!
Most adorable!
Uncontrollable!
Unforgettable!
when jelly is both jelly and wall
wall simultaneously wall and jelly
a point for nail to enter piercing, stall
lucidity inconceivable to a machiavelli
“There is no one to understand and nothing, indeed, to be understood. I have no cause and no effect. How shall I say that I am conceivable or inconceivable? I am free from disease—my form has been extinguished.”
First we believe that we are this
feeble form, this body-mind,
then dwelling in heart we sense bliss,
a pulsation divine aligned.
With bliss in permanence ingrained,
the mind is instrumentalised,
whence beyond space-time, Self unstained,
as our essence is realised.
Ego squashed, Self alone remains,
as both the dreamer and the dreamed,
so once we are freed from thought chains,
suffused with bliss, we are redeemed.
Fals self gone, karmic bondage ends,
as we yet witness flow of life,
heartbeats God’s love and light defends,
our quintessence always bliss rife.
Based on Suzette Richards Poem of same Title Verse 5
Written for Contest of same Title
Feb.26
Placed : First in Contest
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love is not a topic like wisdom or faith
it evolves not as such awareness learnings
over cause of span or with experience
life's needle, thread, spindle as well as loom song
weaves virtue and vice simultaneously
vital fantasy, from spontaneous realm
inconceivable for mind to discern love
motion birthed from heart’s vulnerable petals
amorvivium* has zilch tie to mentality
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*scientific term for purified love indicating that it is only phenomenon that exists after cosmos decays
My heart is hurt and in tatters
My gut in a continual knot
My spirit sad and depleted
I truly feel l am losing the plot
My heart has cried a million tears
My soul now fragile and bruised
My being filled with hurt and disappointment
Without clarity, direction and totally confused
I need time to process what has happened
As l honestly don’t know what to do
I do believe changes are inconceivable
I am uncertain and unclear what avenue to pursue
those who claim to understand
and then turn their back on where they stood
sending auxiliaries under the guise of liberation,
only after supplying the shackles of our own making
they chant of peace-making and lawfulness,
only to drown out the cries of the weary
introducing inconceivable fallacies as gospel into the minds of the masses
wielding ignorance sharpening it until it blooms into hatred
offering remedies to manufactured illnesses,
a corruption to the general mind
a mind that has long since merged into one
we stand in harmony, devoid of unity, tuning into the frequency of their desire
birthing thoughts of incest,
children of big big brother
marching blindly into a battlefield of the deaf
what we ignore may not be what we accept,
but what we condone
beyond
normality
far-away
looks
of contemplation
wayward
innocent
embodiments
in
subliminal
motifs
of
passive
consciousness
&
perception
illumed
insights
faculties
aberration
of awareness
in
authentic
transcription
the
inconceivable
inhibited
attuned
to
sensibility
within
inchoate
contingent
stimuli
individual
thresholds
inseparable
preludes
drift
&
circulate
in
a repertoire
of
shadowed
silence
Guilty. You've chosen your poison.
You accept the worst consequences as inevitable.
Turning this around seems inconceivable.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2026
there is no rain
before a storm
just a deafening sound
of silence
thoughts provoke
bearing down
on the darkness
lingering
within my mind
a winded breath
shutters
in short gasps
as twist of fate
and fury impede
Inevitable doom
lashing out
are cries
of pitiful lies
deceitful pain
inconceivable truths
buried within
a shrouded mask
unveiled
before blind eyes
now illuminated
neath tearless skies
thunderous roars
echoing
erupting
as the force
rages on
scattered
bits and pieces
of half truths
strewn about
as silence
falls again
One that became two becomes one again
Written 10/18/2025
Unseeking seekers contest
Light years before
history began to take itself seriously
we commenced to spin our myths.
We carry these unread books,
to where this ancient world
has erupted from the molten
to solid ground. Enter this malleable
and imaginary planet
speaking of improbable odysseys
and sagas.
None may advance
unless the impossible be made possible.
imagine such,
and re-weave tapestries,
of an on-going mythology
from newfound visions.
I also convey this free-range poetry
as a gift to myself,
planting seeds of fable and fiction,
knowing that the unthinkable,
the inconceivable,
can, and will be born
into the willing womb of tomorrow.
His was an incredible discovery; a phenomenal breakthrough.
To cure cancer completely is inconceivable, a naysayer said.
It would bring unimaginable joy to many, said his mother.
This scientist knew he could always count on her to say the right thing.
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