QUESTING: An onion's approach to critical inquiry

	The questions that matter
	have no easy answers.

	The questions that matter
	laugh when people say 'I see!'

	The questions that matter
	invite a thousand new questions.

	The questions that matter
	are worth raising
	& exploring
	perpetually.


Lis:    This poem reminds me of a work Charles Ives composed in 1906.
        His Unanswered Question resonates with this poem.

Linda:  It does have a transcendentalist flavor, but isn't it a post-modernist credo?

Ron:    (impatient at the pretense) Let's drop the labels! They might help 
        you look smart, but certainly not wise.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A cryptic verse about inquiry, meaning, and value and short dialog about pretense
KEYWORDS: unanswerable questions, post-constructionism, ontological conjectures, epistemology

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1993 in Shizuoka, Japan ✠ Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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