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Piet Hein (December 16, 1905–April 17, 1996 / Copenhagen)
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Poems by Piet Hein : 2 / 55
A Psychological Tip
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping.
Piet Hein
Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003
Edited: Monday, October 03, 2011
Read poems about / on: hope
Poems by Piet Hein : 2 / 55
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Wonderful, optimism on the spin of a coin... this really made me smile as it states to me that he did not like confrontation so preferred to pass it to the gods, so to speak passing the buck... but the end completes by suggesting a childlike manner who just likes to let things ride and looks up wide-eyed to the sky.... lovely little piece which purely by the subject matter feels like it was written in the 70s- where most seemed to have an obsession with coin spinning...tyvm karen