Unanswerable – VJs Weekly Challenge
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Answer Isn’t Here
Timorous bold
spirited cold,
certain uncertainty
normal abnormality,
truth be told
the answers there
but it’s not,
it hovers out of reach
and lingers like spice on the tongue
a memory not quite clear
even masquerading the tangible
and mocks with fundamental apparition
our every certain veneer,
and answer derides
as we cling and hope,
but even when we think it is,
answer isn’t here.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Some things are, unanswerable. Unfathomable, too. Well said.
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Yes unfathomable indeed, thanks Dawn
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You’re welcome 🙂
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😊
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each time we get close it seems to move away but I’m told the answer is much closer and easier than we could imagine 🙂
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This is deep still pondering its depths
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We just never actually arrive
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Well said, worth a ponder!❤️
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Yes, just when we think we are certain, what we think is an answer isn’t.
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Love the pairing of opposites you open with, defining the predicament – too many unknowns and unknowables. Also like how truth “lingers like spice on the tongue” – vague and elusive. Nicely addressed Paul.
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Thank you VJ, I really like your reflection on this and your encouraging thoughts.
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You are welcome, Paul.
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The mysteries of life. There are some things we can’t explain. Beautifully penned, Paul.
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Exactly Winnie, and the answers aren’t always answers nor are they always stable or permanent when we think we have one.
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Loved this poem!
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Very close to my view on life, I think the questions are what we really live or want to live and answers hold us back or in place.
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So true!
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Beautiful response to this prompt, Paul.
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Many thanks LuAnne.
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Such a perfect poem for our times! All the more reason to keep working to help out in any way, as best we can….
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Yes, that has been on my mind, and it seemed to come out in this.
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Beautifully written…but of course I was hoping Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow the answer would be reachable.
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The opposites make for a compelling read and yes, we keep looking for the elusive truth and answers!
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Yes, in a nut shell, thank you Punam
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Always a pleasure, Paul.
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Hi Paul. I recently read some research on the nature of reality and how our senses and brains are not able to comprehend the unfathomable truths all around us. Just the fact that earth is zooming through the universe at high speed to an unknown destination is beyond our senses and incomprehensible, yet reality.
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Yes, an apprehending, yet not a complete knowing, amazing how we think we know.
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