{"id":5430,"date":"2024-03-13T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T19:19:26","slug":"poem-optimism-a-buy-product-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/13\/poem-optimism-a-buy-product-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is about the inertia and trajectory of facts on the ground, while hope is a metaphysical reality that seeps into life of awe kinds amidst a dizzying array of means. Hope has the ability to shine, even most uniquely sow, when there is no reason for optimism. As Leonard Cohen put it: “There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That\u2019s how the light gets in.”<\/p>\n

Optimism: A Buy Product of Hope<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I can live without optimism
\nBut we\u2019ve hope
\nThe very fabric of life
\nOft peering
\nAs well
\nUsed
\nWork clothes
\nNot sow much as finery
\nAs the we\u2019d of life
\nBreaking through sow much concrete
\nAnd first on the seen
\nStriking
\nCasual disdain
\nIn efface of
\nGrowing numb-ers
\nUn-till souled in masses
\nCrapping out
\nOptimism
\nA buy product of hope
\nCreating
\nSnake ayes
\nIn a garden of weedin\u2019
\nYour back to work
\nOr sow they say
\nOnly two begin agin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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