ASK YOURSELF: Reflections on the Questions Worth Keeping

	Ask questions that endure and matter—
	the coiled hydras, sly and vast,
	whose shifting faces gleam and scatter
	like storm-split mirrors, breaking fast.

	Ask questions that refuse to sleep,
	like hungry coyotes, sharp and lean,
	whose restless cries run through the deep,
	prowling the liminal voids between.

	Ask questions that evade convenient frames,
	like jagged pieces, strange, unplaced,
	where no familiar norms abide,
	as shadows shimmer, shift, and change.

	For answers fade like falling leaves,
	They yellow, curl, and blow away;
	But questions burn what mind conceives,
	Like embers glowing, gold and grey. 

	So ask questions that crack settled ground,
	beyond where common beliefs are found;
	For inquiries are a powerful source
	where new possibilities find concourse.


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
LONG SUMMARY:  This poem frames deep, unanswerable questions as living, mythic entities that break through the stagnant boundaries of human certainty, 
          suggesting that the pursuit of the enigma itself holds far greater transformative value than any fleeting answers.
SHORT SUMMARY:  A poem urging us to value enduring, unsettling questions over fleeting answers.
KEYWORDS:  inquiries, cognitive transformations, impermanence, curiosity,  liminal spaces,
            mythic inquiries, epistemological shifts, metaphorical alchemy

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1993 Shizuoka (Japan) ✠ Finished: 2026 Shizuoka (Japan) 
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

NOTE: This piece was partially generated with AI tools for styling and ideation; human editing was then applied. 

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