Every question is a riddle–
we are stuck here in the middle–
borderlined.
But still we keep on asking why,
continue waiting, standing by
for guidelines.
Answers just confuse, pretending
somewhere there exists an ending–
a lifeline.
Deceiving with complexity,
embroidering with fantasy–
we’re traplined.
In silence there are many words
unspoken and more clearly heard–
sibylline.
Grace at dVerse introduced us to a new form called Compound Word Verse. Wow! this was hard. But enough revising–at a certain point you need to let it be.
K. 
Your poem is amazing!! Amazing.
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Thanks Helen!
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well all those revisions paid off Kerfe, this is simply brilliant! Your deep questions cannot be sidelined 🙂 and jo is an old favourite
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Thanks Kate. He does have a way of making songs his own.
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Very polished end product. Nice artwork also.
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Thanks Jade. I spent a long time on it.
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You are welcome, Kerfe.
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Bravo!!!
Luv it
Thanks for dropping by to read mine
Much💜love
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Thanks Gillena.
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Enjoyed this very much!
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Thanks!
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BTW, I don’t want to join another thing in order to comment on your blog, but I do enjoy reading your poems. I like the hope and and feeling of spring in your latest.
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Looks like life is a puzzle full of questions. Love the artwork and compound word of lines.
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Thanks Grace. It is a puzzle, always.
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Great use of the lines! I often think of poetry as being about crafting lines, so this is an excellent word choice, especially that final ‘sibylline.’
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Thanks Ingrid. The word lines has many rich associations.
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You stayed in the in-between and questioning mode, and this flowed nicely. I like the line words you came up with.
It’s funny, but I was just looking at that hand drawing of yours that I wrote a poem for a while back.
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Thanks Merril. That drawing is one of those things I created that I don’t know how it came to be. I’m sure the Oracle was hovering around at the time…
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As she does. . .😀
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Love this and the way it conveys us to quiet. I find myself striving for that sibyl more and more often.
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Thanks Sun. The entire world is much in need of it.
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Excellent and unexpected usages of the form and keyword, and aside from that, just a solid poem that says a great deal about our human quandary without preaching. Last stanza is perfect.
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Thanks!
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Ok, uhm, I think this was only difficult for you because you made packed it so full of meaning, Kerfe! You did an amazing job. And your art piece at the beginning really makes me think – where the quarter circles match up with one another and where they don’t…
❤
David
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Thanks David. I like the compound word idea, but it was too much with a syllable count as well as rhymes. Two out if three would have been easier.
That collage background is based on a quilt pattern called Drunkards Path.
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I love how you managed this, I think without questions in our world we are stuck with too many answers.
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That’s a good observation Bjorn. Thanks.
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Kerfe, you provide sightlines where others see only brambles. a bravura of a pen (both senses) ~
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Thanks–what a nice compliment.
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The art and the poetry go hand in hand to express the incomprehensibility of the present moment – is it hysteria to feel helpless or extend a helping/hopeful hand. In the mystery though, there are lifelines. Absolutely love the “sibylline” quality of your verse and art, Kerfe.
pax,
dora
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Thanks Dora. There are always lifelines, even if we can’t always see them.
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Great choice of word, K. You used it perfectly in conjunction with
Those amazing hands, and Joe Cocker.
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Thanks!
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Perfectly crafted — what an interesting and pleasing form this is!
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Thanks Betty. It is!.
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