Parallel Paradox

[Dark Muse]

Parallel Paradox

My mind is stopped
yet it is not still
nor does it move

It is not a silence
there are things
worse than silence
a silence would be welcome

Yet nor is it a sound
not a soft sound
nor a loud sound
a clamor would be preferable

It is something else
altogether different
something beyond emptiness
a void can often be used
but this remains untouched

Nor is it a solid
and object, a something
amass of thought or even nonthought
an obstacle can be overcome
cut down or worked around

It is not the invisible unnameable
while still unknowable and unfathomable
some things live just outside of existence
and cannot be reached

Beyond even typical intangible concerns
they defy all rules that apply
both to the natural world
and the world that is no world
but a state or a condition

It is the antithesis of everything
without being nothing
yet it resembles a nothing
for more than any something
known or unknown

How can one grasp at a solution
when there is a problem which
cannot be defined as a problem
because it is beyond all definitions
both real and imagined.

One must but succumb
without knowing
that there is anything to succumb to
because only then can it be
defeated.

[jinjang]

Hello there, I was wondering where you were. You have been busy composing a poem!

I did not know you are a great poet. I like very much PARALLEL PARADOX. I can't be a critic of a poem - we can't argue here:) -because I do not know much about poetry. But, I have always enjoyed reading them whenever they touch me.

An expert told me that paradox is difficult to understand. I have my own dilemma at the moment and so it touches me.

Do you have more posted here?

[Dark Muse]

Yeah I have been busy lately, thank you for your comments.

hehe I always get my then and than's mixed up.

oops, it is suppose to be unnameable

[jinjang]

Did you post more of your poems somewhere here?

[Dark Muse]

Yes I have more poems that are posted within the poetry thread here though by now the others may be burried back a few pages.

[jinjang]

Great! I will look them up and comment on them if you do not mind.

[Dark Muse]

hehe no I do not mind

[Forever_found]

I liked it.

Sorry I cannot promote more concrete praise. :S

[Dark Muse]

hehe thank you

[Sapphire]

Wow... just wow. Amazing how you found the words for this.

I especially like

a void can often be used
but this remains untouched
and

they defy all rules that apply
both to the natural world
and the world that is no world
The ninth verse reminds me of something I heard in a movie last night. I do not remember it precisely but it was something like "How do you solve a problem that can not even be there. It is impossible - the problem can't exist."
You found a solution though, in that last verse :)

I do have a little question: did you mean in the fifth verse to write "solid / and object" or could it be you made a typing mistake and it should read "an object"?! That makes a little bit more sense to me, but it might just be that I do not fully understand that part.

Thank you for sharing,
Sapphire