This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific meaning.\u00a0 This is sometimes referred to as a “veil.” Of course this certain inscrutability of our interior experience doesn’t mean that our inner experiences are not valid or subject to meaning. This poem leaves open any precise meaning about whether or what nature might be of a “secret quest” or whether the writer (me) is fantasizing\/imagining and wandering\/wondering about it. I must confess, I experience powerful inner callings that could easily be taken as secret quests, from God or elsewhere you be the judge, or not.<\/p>\n
Secret Quest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One eve This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading
\nGod stopped bye
\nJust letting me no
\nThat I have a secret quest
\nTo which I simply rejoined
\nWhat might
\nThat be
\nAs God carry on
\nIf I were liable
\nI may very well screw it up
\nAnd still
\nIt would remain sow
\nAs our secret keep
\nIf by seaming chance
\nYou are bound to wander
\nA bout this avail
\nAs sure as you are reading this
\nI have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"