Ineffable Poems

The Dual Nature

(“Zero Point of Creation”, 2018, original encaustic)

The Dual Nature

The dual nature of reality,
When we look we see a thing
When we don’t it is a wave,
Isn’t a matter of either/or
But one of and/both.

Beyond the simple wonder of this reality
Is the ineffable mystery of what lies within.
What more is there to say
When you have reached the point of origin
The zero point of every thing.

(9/3/25)

Her ineffable iridescence transcended my trepidations

Her ineffable iridescence transcended my trepidations.
Her scintillating semblance was a hammer to the heart on my sleeve.
Shattering my shamefulness and unlocking my ululations,
But now I am bereaved for my lover chose to leave.

Now my concubine is chimeric and my feelings have faded.
Wash away my world but preserve the past memories in my mind.
Leave me to languish in our eternal estrangement.

Ineffable bliss

Involuntary spasms of bliss delight,
though the norm, always takes us by surprise,
so sudden the surge by day and by night,
rapture sublime mind cannot weigh or size,
teleporting our presence to new highs.
With all our nodes aflame in body prism,
it seems we’ve transcended every known ism.

Disgracing the Ineffable

Even a word of praise
Disgraces the ineffable

12/31/24

Ineffable

("Anagogical Moments Merit Badge", 2011, original oil)

Ineffable

No matter what you think or say
About reality, the true nature of Life
Or mind, or God
You are wrong.

And that is simply
Because what is real and true
Is more subtle and immediate
Than we can ever say.

Doesn’t mean there isn’t a truth or reality
Just that it is always beyond thought
And thus speech;
Always, and for everyone.

And this makes you wonder
What is it then we use our superior primate minds for?
Mostly to divide and conquer it seems
Certainly not to live in peace and harmony.

Meanwhile birds sing, bees gather nectar
Children laugh and elders sigh
The world turns, beautifully and inexorably
And we are here to simply notice and enjoy.

(9/7/24)

Everybody Talks To God

("Eye of God", 2018, original encaustic)

Everybody Talks To God

Believers, nonbelievers
It makes no difference
Everybody talks to God
And ain’t that the truth
Since God is the totality
Of this Life we live
And so the eyes and ears
Of everyone you meet

(9/2/24)

The True Master

Putting you above me
Your feet at my head
Is the natural thing to do
When your mastery
Is revealed.

But it’s all relative
As you put others above you and
Others put themselves below me.
That’s why it’s called
The wheel of life.

When I step back
And my emotions settle
I see that no one is The Master
But that each can instead
Be the appropriate messenger.

(9/1/24)

INEFFABLE IDEAS

emotional
         truths
evoking
    memories

insights
of
   discovery
in
palettes
   of sensory
           enchantment
diffused
in
exploration
languish
 in fragility
&
wither
 in
   the
     shadow
of the
        poignant

Poetry

("A Particle in the Wave", 2018, original encaustic)

Poetry

The urge
the force
the light
the crack
of Life
that flows,
out and in
in and out
Reaching
to touch, and 
be touched
to change, and
be changed
to transform
awaken, display
remind
In words
what is ineffable

(9/5/15

Ineffable joy

Behold thunderclap of joy,
in the eyes of both parents,
when their ten month old baby,
crawls with confidence!

The Edge of Time

Thoughts like coloured pollen 
Rhyme in sequence measureless
Candid eyes mirror 
The night-consciousness of man
Most ancient smoke stacks 
Rise above us
Lead us to the edge of time.

My Ineffable Bottle Garden

My ineffable bottle garden is the best in all the land,
It’s a place of absolute wonder, it’s really rather grand.
Only the most expensive champagne bottles are permitted like Dom Pérignon,
If my bottle garden was the mafia, it would be the Don.

My neighbour is jealous of my bottle garden, in fact he’s rather pernicious,
His passive aggressive comments are nothing short of vicious.
I’ll just ignore and go to my garden, there I’ll drink some wine,
There's nothing’s as grand as watching rainbows glint on bottles in the sunshine.

Poetry Ineffable

*** Poetry Ineffable ***

Today I happened to have come upon
a young woman reading her poetry
in a foreign language that I do not know,
but in her softened, intimate tone
her spoken poem 
pulled at my imagination,
and strained forth sympathies,
which her voice stirred in my heart — 
her phrases sometimes sounded with hesitation
that could be interpreted as bordering
on a tearful confession
…or a cached tale from her experience
intended to share a precautionary warning
that haunts
through its hushed, gentle telling
all best kept in poetry’s deep well,
in that rising music
of composed syllables, to affect
like jewels lustrous 
even in beams of subtle light —
quite understood
beyond the particular
words chosen.


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(c) sally young eslinger 6/2023
Thanks be to God

Rapture Ineffable

Bindu, Third eye and Crown
Entwine with the heart's jingle
Bliss pulsations rise, therein we drown
Behold oh hermit, how pheromones mingle

16-November-2022

Joy Ineffable

Giving up struggle,
with love let’s snuggle;
our heart joyful thus,
aboard God’s bliss bus.

Plot not loss or gain.
Striving is in vain.
Touch divine cherish;
all else will perish.

Love quenches our thirst,
felt as a bliss burst,
if we’re here now still,
aligned with God’s will.

Bliss rapture untamed,
just cannot be named.
As heart lotus blooms,
soul heavenwards zooms.

02-August-2022

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