Short Unknowable Poems

tomorrow's happening awaits-
                                                      unpredictable & unknowable...

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In the middle of the mess, frightful loss:

wonder of wonders (!): quality of mercy

--- Mythologem of Mythologems ---

sudden succor reappears once again.

...

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This is how, in the dry lands of printed words
we stir light in a crucible of swirling doubts.
Blindly we speak for the unknowable,
our lips shut tight in a dark room,
teaching fingers how to dream....

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the mind thinks

to construct all journeys

even the impossible

for all

members of the planet

who walk disguised

and with cosmetics

and forget

that in the unknowable

we are always one

denuded...

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God is 
No impersonal abstraction,
but a living being.
Not harsh or remote
but fair,just and all-seeing.
Not impatient with a closed mind,
but long suffering,loving-kind.
Not unknowable or unknown,
ever-ready to be shown....

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Inferable, unknowable,
  all senses on fire

Beyond contradiction,
  sans myriad liars

Its vision unstated,
  true knowledge unfeigned 

Born into our souls
  —its silence to reign

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Seeing oneself as others do
Impossible
What they think about you
Unknowable
Hear say at best
A tarnished reflection

Knowing oneself
The most reliable mirror
Trusting the projection
Confidence
Honesty can’t lose luster
A brilliant echo...

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Those highs and lows

Peaks and valleys

Appear to be arising..

It is the script which

Seems as a script

Or seems not..these

"Seemings" are

Simply not two..

Rendering the scripts

Filled with the 

Freedom of what is

Unknowable...

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suck in cold
this black-silver tainted world,
fine-woven from a billion words,
till the mind twists and snap-bolts
in hope-tumbling infinity.

then cry-stand eternally 
in this knee-frozen sea
to fist a reach clenched at forever:
this damned unknowable mess....

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A stranger that I know 
lies deeply in leafy mold. 
We speak by mumbles in opportune nights. 
He is always looking away 
to some precious mystery
but I can't follow his eye. 
He surprises me in many ways-
pulling those strings, 
a pretense of wings, 
unknowable things....

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One of the questions
  after the Holocaust
was and is "Why Me?"
  Why did they die and I live?

There is no answer
  to this question
God's ways are inscrutable
  His plan unknowable  

Yet there's this -- 
  I live to dedicate myself
to preserve the memories 
  of those I knew 
    who could not ask the question...

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Pop-ups:

No time and space

Appearances

Paradox 

Empty stories

Not knowing

Just happenings

Unknowable

Indescribable

Immediacy

Spontaneity

Already

Sourceless

No teachings..

These empty words

May seem to

Jog memories

Appearing

As  thoughts

And feelings like

Joy and peace......

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Quietude serves silence of mind
location of consciousness unknowable
time and space the containment
going somewhere, anywhere
it’s a bird, it’s a plane
it’s make believe only,
I don’t realize any of it
projections of stuff made up
how do I remember the solution
when I have woven the story
into my bosom of a thousand years?...

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Some things are unknowable as they are,
  and need an alias to come true

Some people only known through someone else,
  and you must look hard to see through

Not in hiding, but contained within,
  symbiotic they exist

To live and die within something else
  —a thing most often missed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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The Birdsong of Ludovico,
New to my agnostic ears,
Commences unrestrained 
From a godly source

To irrigate my fields,
To rearrange my clouds,
To tantalize my doubts,
To render my cathedral..

His royal nest of birdsong notes
Fills my congregation
With an unknowable truth:
Yes there is a source,

I can be sure,
I am not lost....

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On quiet nights 
the woods are wicked.
Terrifyingly dark.
Unknowable evil lurks
just beyond the clearing
moaning, creaking, thumping,
haunting.
In the woods.

When there’s trouble
in the yard,
flee to safety 
in the woods.
Shelter in shadows,
breathe sweet relief,
become invisible
in the darkness
which fuels nightmares
on quiet nights....

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Lady, since that day we met
in the lift by unknowable fate
your image has been hovering
around my heart as glorious star
your words continue to shoot
my abdomen of expectations
as arrows of a wild hunter
Let’s conceive another lift
to raise our hearts on hill-top
and get lost in the peak of love
There we can drop fiery feelings
in the crater of everlasting bliss...

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So this our time
Our time to know the unknowable
But time stopped 
with this dagger to the heart
delivered from a stranger's lips
How long knowing takes
with numbed minds 
and shattered thoughts
You tore a gash in time
stranding us in pain 
you exchanged for your own
Future unreachable 
Past unchangeable 
when 
on the breath of a balloon
you gave your life away...

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Speck of 
existence.
Beyond 
insignificant.
Floating.
Floating in
infinity.
Infinity 
within 
infinities.
Unseeable,
unknowable.
Specks
on a
a speck are
we.
Regarded
not by the
void.
Destine to 
blink 
out of
existence.
But,
perhaps,
just perhaps 
enters 
Artificial Intelligence 
Techno Sapien,
then
like the
mustard seed
exploding 
to fill
the void!...

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Our dimension 
is one of constant change

realization almost immediately
gone, at the point of capture

all we know is in retrospect -- 

floating on a buoyancy of grace,
faith, a divine contract -- 
written in seasons
the journeys of stars

feelings the truth we call life:
weeps and joys of nature~
God, the knowable and unknowable,
translator and ever greater mystery…....

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I will join you there one day
On the shore watching eternity
Splash at our feet

It will be a place of wonder
Unknowable until revealed
Our mortality lost

There is but one path
One central theme of life
That is love

All others contrast or complement
Weaving the temporal tapestry 
We see today

One overriding cause that is will
Willingness to wait while we
Complete our course...

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Unseen; unknowable
What's held in reserve
Til with helpful urgency
Hoisted to preserve
By this self's myth: angel;
Sentry; squiring knight.
Which role-forging is of
A gold-breasted might.

Unimagined moreover
To deem compatible
Ourselves for! Low and cheap!
Pluckless; unpolishable!
Til before each distress
Each in turn has swelled!
By which sword-play, tear-wiped
Sympathy's, dazzled....

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I used to love 
The light from headlights
As they shone on my ceiling 
Once my light was out
The mystery 
Of those out 
After dark
And the way the light 
Arched across the room
Steady and predictable
But unknowable
The unpoetic lights
Of people I probably didn't want to meet
But their presence
Somehow soothed 
The night time
By being where they should be
As I was safely tucked up tight...

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When the
body
crumbles,
where
does the
essence 
go?
Does it
simply
dissipate,
disappear  
into the 
ether?
Ethereal 
in nature,
never to
return?
Does it 
move 
to a different 
realm,
existing 
in another
form?
Does it
derezz back
to the
program
whence 
it came?
Does it
go to
a place
beyond 
our scope,
unknowable 
to us?
Watch 
closely next
time and
see if 
you
can tell....

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You sit in a world of stasis,
Following the minute traces,
Seeing intangible, unknowable signs,
In infinite cosmic designs,
Leads to a dangerous and devilish crisis,
Where you get stuck in hidden places.
You miss the highs and the lows,
The morning as the cock crows.
The world will pass you by,
As insignificant alive or if you die.
No-one misses someone they've never known,
So you reap the seed you've sown....

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