Three stones.
Quince.
The aura of perfection.
An illumination.
Parsnips, uncooked.
Telescopes.
As always, questions
Left as an exercise
For the reader.
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qbit 
Questions indeed.. I can imagine several, but why raw parsnips?
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LOL! Well, wouldn’t it be a different question than if they were cooked?
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Good question – why 3 when it only took one? Symbolism, perhaps? The telescope question makes complete sense the first time you see the rings for yourself. Good stuff!
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Nice structure–for me the subjects could just as easily be the answers to the unasked questions–/how can we embrace the stars?/ or /when are stones most Irish?/
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Great questions!
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I’m exercised … or is that exorcised?
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Lol!
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This is great! Also are the telescopes so you can look away from the raw parsnips?
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That is the best question yet!
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Haha thanks!
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I liked the third stanza the best. Those catechisms had both questions and answers as I recall. I like how you left the questions (and the answers) as exercises which they are.
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Thanks. Yes, I was playing with all that. Thanks for giving it a read.
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Three stones.- How much weight have I put on?
Quince.- What’s my son’s middle name?
The aura of perfection. -What is this aura around me?
An illumination. – How would you describe my poetry?
Parsnips, uncooked.- What should I eat to lose 3 stones?
Telescopes.- What am i planning to steal tomorrow?
A lovely exercise. LOL 🙂 🙂
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Fantastic!! So great! Lol!
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I simply did as you asked, dear sir 🙂
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Planning to steal telescopes!!
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Shhhhh…..
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qbit, the back and forth discussions are as enlightening as your poem. That shows that your poem is thought-provoking. As long as that’s the only kind of provoking it is, mister! 🙂
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How about this as provocation – “happy birthday” is the answer to what question?
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Aging. Thank God I’ve overcome that.
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We seem to have eaten all of the ice cream just now. Sorry about that.
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We have FroYo. It doesn’t make my heart beat so loud it keeps me awake at night.
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Yes, FroYo is the order of battle here too.
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Reading yours while planking — instant drainage of brain glucose. Lol
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LOL!
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No question marks, but I questioned every one. I give you applause!
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Thanks!!
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I see what you did here. Outstanding the questions left for me to exercise this poem is magnificent or a creative recipe for cooking dinner. 🙂
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Lol!
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🙂 hahaha!!!
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For me, these could well be the ANSWERS to some previously unanswered questions.
Love the structure, and the mystery it invokes.
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Thanks.
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Not where my head would have gone, but I’ve had a problem extricating it of late, so who am I to wonder? 😉 Quite the romp here, qbit.
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Hahaha! Thanks.
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Intriguing! Haiku as a vehicle for implicit question! Well-played, poet, well-played. 😀
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Thank you!!
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Sounds like you’ve made some stone soup. Isn’t it interesting that “The answer is 42” plays into your first line of “three stones” ?
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You are right! I didn’t think of that!
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The answer just jumped at me when I googled how much 3 stones was in pounds. 🙂
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Interesting. Questions or answers? The reader writes their own.
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LATE to the reading 😦 (I didn’t even participate in the Open Night as we were still in Cape Cod).
I love how you’ve made simple statements…..no question marks….and it still leaves the reader in a quandry. The unspoken punctuation is a question mark. Where were there only three stones, not four or two or twenty? (and why, perhaps, were they left unturned?) Why choose quince? Smiling at the uncooked veggies 🙂 And then as someone else commented, are the questions without correct punctuation….or answers to unknown questions.
BUT — then I look at the title Catechism — and I remember my early youth with my father (who was of no denomination / not religious at all), sitting patiently and quietly in his dark green plastic (who could afford leather in the early 50s??), holding my catechism book from my Catholic grade school, asking me the question and then reading the answer as I recited it back to him. Rote learning. Who really understood the meaning? Surely not my dad — except that this was a task he lovingly did for his young daughter — and surely not me as I had a quick memory and just rattled off the words without really understanding them. GREAT title for this! 🙂
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Thank you for such a detailed reading! I really appreciate that.
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I like this a lot!
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