A good question for me is one I keep
thinking about. I don’t need to make sense
of it. Serendipity, cosmos, time.
A good question for me is one that meets
in the middle. One that begets intense
wide journeys, floating deep between the lines.
A good question follows me into sleep.
It rearranges and reframes events,
is more than just the words I can define.
A good question reshuffles how I see.
The NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. I decided to look at some of my book reviews on Goodreads for an idea of how to approach it. The first quote in my review of Kiese Laymon’s book “Long Division” (a book I highly recommend) is what I used for the title of my poem. I’m not sure if if this is a review of asking questions or of questions themselves. But I am always asking them, and of course I have a lot of thoughts about them. I borrowed some of the ideas from the review too.
Even my collage box art is always asking questions and commenting on asking questions.
I’ve written in the form of Muri’s Dizzy poem. The motion is mostly interior, but it’s present, even though not necessarily seen.
K. 
So much truth in this. How do we learn if we never question?
(I didn’t mean to write a question, but . . .) Your collage box knows, too. 🙂
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That’s really the question of this era, isn’t it? Thanks Merril.
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You’re welcome. I think it is.
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Questions are the better part of what’s so. What’s an answer without a question. Stale. Love Elvia & what an interesting pairing, he and his so so talented wife.
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Thanks Neil. We need more questions, less answers…
I agree, I never would have paired Elvis and Diana.
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Wonder is a word so full of meaning. Thank goodness the most we can hope for are questions. A world full of answers sounds downright terrifying. Great song choice, K.
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Thanks Jade. It’s true, too many people think they have the answers when they have never even bothered to ask the questions.
I love that song. Full of good questions.
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You’re very welcome.
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A review of the questions – always a good idea as it leads to either more (more pointed) questions or provides a new perspective on the supposed answers! I’m also tickled that your use of the Dizzy was so very effective with this poem. Your use of enjambment is very effective too!
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Thanks Muri. I was intimidated by the directions for this form, but after seeing how well you used it, I decided to give it a try.
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I live for your book recommendations and this one sounds right up my alley (as usual!) I live for questions too, which always make for the best poems.
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Questions are always good.
The book has two sides which meet in the middle. The friend who gave me the book told me to start on the high school competition side. But of course I had to reread it after completing the second part. I missed a lot, but in the end the book remains a puzzle. I think about it all the time.
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Oh, now I’m even more intrigued. That was my favorite part about Murakami’s “Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World”.
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That’s a Murakami that I haven’t read. I wonder if my daughter has it–I’ll ask her.
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Your last line is just perfect. I also love the collage (first one). Well all of them, but especially the first.
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Thanks Claudia. Your work is full of questions too.
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The older I get, the more questions, and the less I care about the answers, or getting answers, it seems.
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This made me laugh, but it’s true for me as well.
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I like the entire poem and these lines in particular: “A good question follows me into sleep” and “A good question reshuffles how I see.”
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Thanks!
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Only answers can be wrong, but they can also be partially right. Maybe there’s no such thing as a completely right answer, there’s always a ‘but’. The most knotty ones are, as you say, the ones that don’t let us sleep.
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I think that may be true. The context of both question and answer are always changing.
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