Spiritual experience can be hard to put into words because it’s often beyond words. This is probably why the Bible is full of visions, parables, dreams, and poetry. Imagery, metaphor, and symbolism are sometimes the best ways to express the inexpressible.
Paradox can also be useful in understanding and communicating things of the spirit. Christ is God and man. Things like resurrection and the kingdom of God are said to be coming yet present now. Talking about spiritual things can be like trying to portray three dimensional objects in two dimensions.
Below is a poem from my new book, Shadow and Memory, that attempts to convey what it’s like when God speaks. It doesn’t technically have a title; poems without titles are, by default, identified by their first lines, which means this one is called “a tongue”.
a tongue ablaze with whispers a storm’s eye inside an annihilating breath a mirror of scalpels an armor-piercing kiss when God speaks
A Wandering Minstrel 