Ineffable Poem by Patrick Dennis

Ineffable



If I believe it - and feel it -
and by saying it I believe it
and believe in saying it
I can make it true! - True! - True! - Real!

And yet in saying it I find
I can but half say it -
I am more - the more eloquent -
to say the things unsaid -

Which I Lowlight with a Penumbra
of an unfinished Unrhymed sonnet -
where Words float and Dip - Silence - Gone -
gone below the Surface.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Oh, Emily Dickinson, I beg a thousand pardons of you. My mangy little keyboard doesn't have a dash worthy to emulate you. Just some stunted little thing unfit even to hyphenate. But the upper-case Keys still Work as you can See. And, Yes, it has enough keys for rhyme - even when they don't. And if I put my mind to it I think I could turn out a hymn or two - or a jingoistic tune.

Oh, and I do love you. Let nobody say otherwise.
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