IMAGINE THE UNKNOWABLE



Imagine the unknowable,
Its bitter waters
Spray through your mind.

You anticipate
The unknown, imagining
The unknowable.

You're imagining
The unimaginable,
In your fervid dreams.

Then you contemplate
The uncontemplatable,
In your dizzy life.

You're reconciling
The unreconcilable,
In this broken world.

Are you destroying
The indestructible,
By power of mind?

Then you're performing
The unperformable
In your daily routine.

If you can imagine
Must it be possible?
Or merely sometimes?

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About this poem

One of my reflections on life and the cosmos.

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Written on July 20, 2021

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXB CDA DAX CAX DAX DAB DAX XAX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 533
Words 81
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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