A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Tuesday, February 05, 2019

optimistic conditions

My Optimism
(such as it is)
is conditional on things working out
for the best, a rose-colored
retrospect

always supposing that things
work out. Very often, they don't.

I suspected as much. I've always been
far too suspicious a man to be
called an Optimist,

except

by people who hear me remarking
on what's coming up, with an eye

to each best-laid plan.

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