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?

Thursday, April 11, 2019

painstake

We take pains not
only to avoid receipt,
but also to avoid the gift
of them. Which,
selfishly enough
is partly because
it's a blow to one's
competence. One's care,
one's good and earnest
will: to be not disease,
injury, nor even pill

We take pains to avoid
such pangs. Our rewards
storm in, and bear us away
in gangs

as they will.

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