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
Dutendra Chamling 27 October 2015

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

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Manonton Dalan 30 January 2016

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

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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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