Derived from the Spanish word for question, the PREGUNTA style of poetry is a question-answer dialogue between two individual voices or two individual poets within the pregunta poem.

There is no set number of stanzas or rhyme scheme in this type of poem.


Example 1 by Jacquii Cooke & Hugh Stewart:

excerpt from Where I Lie With You (but why wait?)

because i love you,
i hope you can wait.

But I'm tired baby. What is
This illusive thing you call love?
Let's do the damn thang. Why wait?

because i love you,
i hope you can see past
the bravado and my pain
i dream you can touch the softness
that lies beneath
my polished exterior.

But Baby, my interior is hungry.
My every thought of you just
Seems to ravish my insides; I cry
At night, not knowing where you reside,
I need you exquisitely like the gleam that lies in your eye
When you glance upon my very being - Babyboy...
Why wait for you? Why?
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Example 2 by Jan Haag:

excerpt from PREGUNTA

Are you afraid of death?
Only of too deep a breath.

Are you afraid of life?
Only man's eternal strife.

Are you afraid of travel?
Only the need for arrival.

Are you afraid of hurt?
Only that I will lose my shirt.