{"id":2827,"date":"2017-08-23T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2017-08-23T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T18:42:39","slug":"must-read-poem-incarcerated-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/must-read-poem-incarcerated-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But for the slip of the tongue<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There could be<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Having<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Been given<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The slip of paper<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With a key<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Too incarcerated truth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Knot to be<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Read aloud<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There is know God<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of the simplest and most profound truths in life are best experienced in silence, where anything spoken would only detract from the experience. \u00a0If this poem is read out loud, it communicates the opposite meaning of that in silence:\u00a0&#8220;There is no God&#8221; versus &#8220;There is know God.&#8221; \u00a0The reference to God sets up the conundrum of trying to communicate spiritual matters when words necessarily get in the way, often turning them into spiritual madders. \u00a0This poem is a big tip of the hat to the Tao Te Ching&#8217;s opening line: &#8220;The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.&#8221; \u00a0I have longingly loved this opening paradox which offers the poetic challenge of improving on silence.<\/p>\n<p>Truth may very well lie in the manor in which it is spoken or knot. \u00a0Free of words, we may experience the hole truth, going down that place from which hares split. \u00a0Down, down, down &#8212; nothing softer, nor closer to foul. \u00a0Sublime temptations beg the ineffable won, only to be housed in feat of clay. \u00a0Any peep would be, as if, to bring the roof roof down, that within ear shot of any\u00a0eavesdropper. \u00a0Even the most dogged ear tome would knot avail the rabid homme, the whole as nothing, but hollowed ground. \u00a0To no end,\u00a0as soil one self. \u00a0Making me, want to pop eye: I AM, what I AM?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth But for the slip of the tongue There could be Having Been given The slip of paper With a key Too incarcerated truth Knot to be Read aloud There is know God Many of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/must-read-poem-incarcerated-truth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[335,428,65,359,486,131,30,320,421],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-conundrum","tag-experience","tag-god","tag-life","tag-meaning","tag-silence","tag-spiritual","tag-tao","tag-truth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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