Does an optimist or a pessimist write the better poem?
Does an optimist with his rhyme and meter
Writing songs of love, nature, and spring?
Or are a pessimist’s dirges
Of bitter betrayal and loss more inspiring?
Both pessimists and optimists sing
Soft, yet loudly their own song.
So who writes the better poem?
What is the better song?
One of the marriage bed,
Or one of love gone wrong?
All sympathize with sadness;
All feel the pangs of joy.
Songs of rotten apples,
Or of bouncing baby boys?
So what expression does the better poet employ?
Truth is they touch us daily.
All just parts of life.
Tears and laughter not unique to ********** or wife.
Yes maybe optimists and pessimists are not so far apart,
For both pessimists and optimists capture the human heart.
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 11:36 PM UTC
Does an optimist or a pessimist write the better poem?
Does an optimist with his rhyme and meter
Writing songs of love, nature, and spring?
Or are a pessimist’s dirges
Of bitter betrayal and loss more inspiring?
Both pessimists and optimists sing
Soft, yet loudly their own song.
So who writes the better poem?
What is the better song?
One of the marriage bed,
Or one of love gone wrong?
All sympathize with sadness;
All feel the pangs of joy.
Songs of rotten apples,
Or of bouncing baby boys?
So what expression does the better poet employ?
Truth is they touch us daily.
All just parts of life.
Tears and laughter not unique to ********** or wife.
Yes maybe optimists and pessimists are not so far apart,
For both pessimists and optimists capture the human heart.
For my high school English teacher
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