Verisimilitude

Verisimilitude                                                                                            

Similes, metaphors, homonyms,

various other poetic devices resonating

with two, three simultaneous meanings

the more intricately nuanced the merrier,

 

expressing the ambiguity not only of words

but of life itself and pointing to, paradoxically,

the ultimate Oneness of Truth.

If a poem’s every word were to wear

a thousand shades of meaning, the poet would then
only be approaching a sufficient description,

depiction of the whole cloth Truth

(which readers, by the way, could only grasp

through the seine of their own private translations), 

that unimaginable poem ending up

an enigmatic everything and nothing,

having achieved the verisimilitude of Truth.

O child of God, lament not your fated obsession –

trying to squeeze blood from stone.