Looking For Answers

I'm not looking for answers: answers are not hard to find. I tend to trip over them all the time! Suspiciously, they seem to overlap: thus, it's difficult to tell them apart. I prefer hunting questions: they're harder to ferret out. Questions are never found lying around, for they are probing answers, all the time, making deceptive answers quite nervous. Questions are a treasure hunt, searching for that perfect one. If you believe some answers, that's okay, I suppose that one or two might be true, answers are consistent and well-crafted. Yet when instructed to stick to the question asked, few do! Can it be that questions are too precise, and therefore no answer's a perfect fit? Or, is it that go-to answers can't stretch? When you start asking questions, question, everything you're told!
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Date: 2/23/2018 12:17:00 PM
Nice! Very clever. Has to use my brain a bit. Really enjoyed it!
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Emile Pinet
Date: 2/23/2018 12:25:00 PM
Thanks Anna, your comments always make my day my friend, Emile.
Date: 2/21/2018 10:25:00 PM
What a clever poem! And, it's so true. It reminds me of politicians, some who attempt to dodge the question by giving the most vague answer they can think of. So, then a reporter must ask the right question so as to steer the politician in a manner to where he is almost forced to stick to the point/question. Well, that's my take on this poem. Anyway, I like it. :)
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Emile Pinet
Date: 2/22/2018 11:00:00 AM
Thanks so much Carole, you have a good grasp on where this poem is heading my friend, Emile.
Date: 2/21/2018 6:48:00 PM
Bravo, Emile. Great concept for your poem... I love your line "Each question's a treasure hunt"
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Emile Pinet
Date: 2/22/2018 11:00:00 AM
Thank you Line, your comments are a high point of my day my friend, Emile.
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