COCK EYED OPTIMIST

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JOURNAL # 41

such triviality of a voiced notion
is surely not a believable concern
forward thinkers are gems of
humanity
while, the naysayers rooting around
in the dismal gloom of the past
retard themselves with fear
and misshapen readjustment
give me a 'Cock Eyed Optimist'
any day
over a hen jawed pessimist
in the realm of the creative thinker
plays the never ending commercial
of wonder
possibility to such person
is the language of their inner most
being
the unharnessed self proposes
repeated council with the surroundings
of productive personal evolution
shallow shadows cannot even brush
the coat tails of such sunshine individuals
not when the day within us all
is fully recognized as unapologetically
eternal .......................
(June 6, 2012 647am)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Earlier this evening I was watching a documentary on Oscar Hammerstein on PBS and he spoke of his brand of optimism in his musicals such as South Pacific, Oklahoma, The King and I and The Sound of Music as being his Cock Eyed Optimism. that phrase was a key to me. I knew just as soon as I heard it that a poem was in me and that phrase was a key for me unlock it.

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