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Premium Member unknowable

The best things worth knowing are unknowable; 
they are beyond human comprehension.
What my heart feels my mind is unable to communicate;
Only to hold you and kiss you comes close.

Premium Member Unknowable simplicity

Objects

 and subjects 

are appearances~

Appearances arise 

for no one~and 

the arising cannot 

be understood 

without one to

understand~

Yet understanding 

appears along with 

objects and subjects~

Unknowable simplicity~~??

Premium Member The Vast Unknowable

     Space, the vast unknowable

        theories abound...

     Not all are telescopable


Premium Member The Unknowable Ordinary

What's happening

And not happening

Simultaneously

Is the appearance

Of the ordinary and

Is unknown and

Unknowable..the

Ordinary unknowable...

A Path Unknowable


A Path Unknowable

every thought we harbour
every choice we make 
can lead us on a journey
we’re not sure we should take

for roads in life are mostly
unknowing of journey’s end
and the merest deviation
another fork or bend

is always waiting somewhere 
as surely as the day
an impasse an uncertainty
a questioning of the way

though the pathways that we’re taking
may seem that they are fated
each decision is a conscious one
not randomly created

know the road you travel
has been walked upon before
by others who have passaged
seen what lies behind each door

wherever you may journey
to whatever you aspire
keep close all those who know your heart
safe haven when you tire

Wazza

Praise for the Unknowable

In the middle of the mess, frightful loss:

wonder of wonders (!): quality of mercy

--- Mythologem of Mythologems ---

sudden succor reappears once again.


Premium Member Precipice

Standing on the precipice of fear and awe,
We are creatures in wonder and uncertainty.
We make all our heavens and hells.
This edge of possibility, where we search
uncharted interstellar dimensions,
the wormholes and blackholes 
beyond our comprehension.

Intelligent maker of such things,
If it is evident anywhere,
then, we are surely too small to know.
Does it drift through space like 
an unmoored ghostship or
is it the confluence of 
universal consciousness,
the essence of intention?

Is this universe alone, or 
just a branch of many on a tree?
Are we here by blueprint or 
merely coincidental?
Are we a rough draft, or
Are we an objective?

It is hidden in the rain,
hidden in the particles of pebbles.
Standing on the precipice of fear and awe,
We are actualities in stupefaction on ambiguities.
We fill our voids with heavens and hells.
Yes, we are tireless seekers 
poised on the precipice of the unknowable.

Premium Member Unknowable

Scriptures say God's unknowable,
unless His will does enable,
for which our heart must be steady,
thoughts rested and then we're ready
to imbibe magnetism sublime,
surrendering, to upwards climb,
receptive to receiving grace,
beholding God then, face to face,
seen in clear sight as soft white light,
bestowing bliss, to heart's delight.

Let's self-limit not, God search quest,
for He’s seen when thoughts are at rest,
if heart be pure, free from desire,
we become That, we did aspire.

Soul's transmuted, we are the flame ~
God's living light, our claim to fame.

01-November-2022

The Unknowable Origin of Voice

Pen scribbles incantation 
As the writing reveals itself suddenly
Reveling thought unburdens its borrowed code
Bodies dance to release their outpouring presence

Humanly, we wait
A readership to hawk the landscape
And trot out footsteps in koans

As in dreams, I drift
Authorial indeterminate 
Nouns now shown as shackles-
Verbs take the crown
Unmistakably like Buddhist paradigm
All wood chopping simply no chopper

The self of no-self
Natures's embodiment
Writing embraces All
Soul at the beginning of whirpool

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