What’s Your Answer?

What’s Your Answer?

Questions

Do events, happenings,

facts emerge in clusters?

The poet’s poet—

William Carlos Williams—

said, “No ideas but in things.”

Sorry, my imagist model,

breaker of your own rule,

this strain requires ideas.

How much of our

seeing connections,

claiming coincidences,

is nothing more than

selective perception,

eyes simply peeled away?

How much of acceptance

of a truth so labeled is

little more than fashion?

How much of change

is mere novelty?

How often has deliverance

been banned, later to be

seen as revelation?

What is going on today?

Where did it come from?

What does it, O,

what does it mean?

Did God promise there’d

never be another flood,

or was that just the writer’s

happy ending?

To Ponder

            1.   Sometimes it seems we answer, or try to answer, big

                  questions on the run.

            2.   Perhaps we’ve tried to answer, or at least fathom the

                  Issues, earlier, without satisfaction that we’ve done them justice.

            3.   But the time comes when the question is right for us and

                  we best not look the other way.

            4.   Face-to-face, some questions seem unanswerable after

                  pondering, and there’s no shame in moving on. Mystery

                  must be given its due.

            5.   Amazingly, clarity often comes when we’ve reached

                  conclusions on flimsy information, and we later turn out

                  seemingly prescient!

            6.   Declaring your conclusions, whether they turn out right

                  or not helps make you a more known entity to people.

                  It’s good to be known.

            7.   Drum your beat to different marchers!.

© 2013 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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