Possibilities Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

Possibilities

Rating: 3.4


I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
I prefer myself liking people
to myself loving mankind.
I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.
I prefer the color green.
I prefer not to maintain
that reason is to blame for everything.
I prefer exceptions.
I prefer to leave early.
I prefer talking to doctors about something else.
I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries
that can be celebrated every day.
I prefer moralists
who promise me nothing.
I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.
I prefer the earth in civvies.
I prefer conquered to conquering countries.
I prefer having some reservations.
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages.
I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.
I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.
I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.
I prefer desk drawers.
I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here
to many things I've also left unsaid.
I prefer zeroes on the loose
to those lined up behind a cipher.
I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.
I prefer to knock on wood.
I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility
that existence has its own reason for being.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Manonton Dalan 30 January 2016

I prefer rest////////////

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Dutendra Chamling 27 October 2015

...I prefer moralists who promise me nothing... Wonderful poem.

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Dr. Antony Theodore 21 January 2021

I prefer talking to doctors about something else. I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations. I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. Meaningful.. tony

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Lyn Paul 16 December 2019

Remarkable reading. I enjoyed this so much having so many similarities.

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I prefer reading this poem Rather than not reading this poem excellent writing, , excellent poet Thank you for sharing Mario Odekerken

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pakan pakdaman 11 March 2016

I prefer not prefer...:|

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Ratnakar Mandlik 30 January 2016

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. Entertaining brain teaser. Thanks for sharing.10 points.

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