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A Poem That Ponders Answers

 So, what is the answer? At present this is probably the most asked question all around the world. We have all been snared in a global conflict that was initially referred to as an excursion, which was actually an incursion which could more accurately be called an act of war. The ripples of this ill-advised miscalculation have had repercussions reverberating far beyond the theatre of war. 

So, what's the answer? I certainly didn't hear it yesterday. The address to the American people, and by extension the rest of the world, provided no answers whatsoever. It delivered a bottle of smoke. 

I confess to being utterly bewildered and terribly concerned by what has been set in place by two world leaders who take no responsibility for what they have unleashed, and the disruption to global affairs they have set in play. Such actions possess all the hallmarks of moral malnutrition...

That's my response, my rant. Even if there is a clear answer to this disturbing situation, those proposing solutions are probably engaged in a dialogue of the deaf. 

Let me assure you dear reader the poem that follows is not another rant poem, but rather an examination of what often happens when we go in search of answers to events that leave us betwixt and between. Answers are frequently elusive and hard to pin down.  Such dilemmas often bedevil us. 



So, What’s The Answer?

 Answers rarely
      travel
    in straight lines
        Sometimes
              they spin
endlessly
    in circles
                    Morphing
  into stories
        Brimming
  with waffle
          and minutiae
Sometimes
    they head off
          and become lost
           rather quickly
 Some answers
    are reluctant         to reveal
                    their true selves
          Refusing
      to dance
          on the tongue
They frustrate
       and fail
            to get
   to the point
                 
Straight line answers
often
    stun
and amaze
     Like
      a dart
         to the heart
Brevity
    wrapped
         in a few
                    stinging words
       So, what’s the answer?
So few answers
       travel
   in straight lines.

Alan J Wright



It is once more Poetry Friday and our host this time is Matt Forrest Esenwine. Matt celebrates the release of a new anthology about Rainbows and promotes National Poetry Month in the US. 


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