Best Pollyanna Poems

Pollyanna can do,
Sounds optimistic to you,
Idealism for me and you,
No need to wake up blue,
Women are a capable crew,
Most stuff we're equal to,
Put on your positive thinking cap,
Pollyanna can do, that's that....

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Quotes from the 1960 movie, Pollyanna:

Pollyanna: Why don't you come out of the front door like normal people?
Jimmy: They won't let us. I can come out anytime I want with my tree.
Pollyanna: You could also fall and hurt yourself badly. You shouldn't play in trees.
Jimmy:...

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There is one thing around every corner I turn.. Over every brick in the road to success,
and painting a veil on every aspiration I have for the future... 
One thing that holds opinions, and forms a web of power in the attempt to tell me...

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I wake at the ascension of golden dawn
to meditate on the morning's mystique
To the sandy shoreline, I'm always drawn
as the sun climbs over the mountain peak

How calm the lake's water without a ripple
Like a sheet of glass; is my mirrored reflection
I seek its tranquil comfort...

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Pollyanna plays the 'Glad Game'
City government, the 'Sad Game'
   Pollyanna for Mayor
   That's my prayer...

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I pull out Pollyanna me because it is my go-to-game-plan.
It usually works. Not this time.
I am too happy.
Too upbeat, too enthusiastic.

I tone it down a bit, and try to get to the bottom of things.
Put on my listening face, throwing my Robin Williams act to...

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Some people say I’m a dreamer…an idealist…a Pollyanna
some people, I imagine, just like you.
They say I have unrealistic hopes and dreams and wishes…
that my wishes will never come true!

I know there are certain aspects of life we cannot wish away
that are the cause of heartache...

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He hid his Draconian side from her
She was a Pollyanna, her heart pure
Her family disliked him immediately
His serpent-like qualities most of them could see

He whisked her away, out of town and state.
Chastised and chided her if she was missing or late
She had to give away...

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quixotic dreamer
constructing silver windmills
when she looks at him

rose colored glasses
optimistic attitude
giving them a chance

forever unite
a starry eyed realist
rebel who needs love...

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