Short Pessimist Poems

Short Pessimist Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Pessimist by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Pessimist by length and keyword.


Premium Member A Dialogue On the Water In the Glass

Optimist: “Look! It’s half full.”
Pessimist: “No! Half empty!”
Realist: “I just drank the water
while you were debating."
Form: Verse


Premium Member Clerihew-Stickney

Joseph Trumbull Stickney,
Harvard 'Pessimist' ,reckoned to be.
First American docteur de lettre
sonneteer, superbe, peut-tetre?
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew No 5

Joseph Trumbull Stickney,
Harvard 'Pessimist' ,reckoned to be.
First American docteur de lettre
sonneteer, superbe, peut-tetre?
Form: Clerihew

Better To Be a Pessimist

No word from you, is
Like expecting a kiss, but
Getting slapped instead 


8/3/11

Received 3rd place in "Sayings of Wisdom" contest
Form: Senryu

Two Sides To Everything

When autumn comes
is winter far away?
Every silver lining
has a cloud.
This is the best of all possible worlds.
So says the optimist,
so says the pessimist too.


Premium Member Psychology Today

Optimist? Pessimist? 
Recognizing the glass as half-cracked 
Often explains the level of its contents.
Freedom is being satisfied
With the terms of one’s confinement.
Form: Verse

Skeptically Open Lovers

Open a bigger locket
In devout letters
To unhinge hours morality
Fending the pessimist off
Grasping empty,
Inlaying foundations
To refine and revere the life's span

Premium Member Hail To Everyone

There's a chance of hail in the forecast today The size of baseballs, oh well come what may Never a pessimist Always an optimist Have a blast throwing them at your mate
Form: Limerick

The Pessimist Argued That All Women Are Whores

The pessimist argued that all women are whores,
He spoke with a tear, with a unconcealed pain.
The optimist listen to him  with a hidden fain,
He rubbed his hands with a wish  to explore!
Form: Quatrain

Never a Borrower Nor a Lender Be

Never a borrower nor a lender be
That is my simple philosophy
But if the need you can’t resist
Borrow money from a pessimist
A positive attitude they sadly lack
So they don’t really expect it back
Form:

Old Years Night

My wife is an optimist
Which is why, she stays up
On New Years Eve
To see in the new one

I am by nature a pessimist
Which means, that I stay up
On New Years Eve
To make sure the old one has gone
Form:

Premium Member Percentages-Noteable Quote Contest

The pessimist Club You think it will rain today? No, barely "47%" chance
Quotation from Mitt Romney in 2012 Presidential race. Picked number 1 quote of 1012 by Yale
© Rollo West  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Two World Views

 diamante 
optimist auspicious, positive hoping, unveiling, explaining enthusiast, energy - lethargy, fatalist complaining, curtailing, groping negative, suspicious pessimist
Form: Diamante

Premium Member An Army of Optimists

Are you a member of the Army of Optimists You should check it out, sure beats being a pessimist The sun always shines Drinking fine wine Life's what you make it... you could choose to be a microbiologist
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A True Optimist

How many classify yourselves as optimists If you answered in the negative, then you're a pessimist Think only of good things Your heart will then sing And you'll find you'll have no need for a cardiologist
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A True Optimist

How many of you classify yourself as a true optimist If you answer in the negative, you must be a pessimist Think only of good things You heart will surely sing And you'll find you'll have no need for a cardiologist
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mood of the Moment

Optimist
          Hopeful, joyful, enthusiastic
          Fulfilling, exciting, thriving,
       Mentor, leader, enemy, naysayer
         Anger, sadness, depression
   Draining, energy-stealing, exhausting
                      Pessimist
Form: Diamante

To Describe a Perfectionist

Let's see. It's someone who
on a successful day,
frets over a second of failure or two.
A pessimist, others may say. 



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Date: 20 / 01 / 2017
Form: Grook

Premium Member Alone In A Crowd

Alone in a crowd, together with you, can be awfully good. I am a cheerful pessimist and so clearly misunderstood. Eloquent silence, no dull roar and some festive tranquility; you are my magic realism- my comfortable misery.
Form: Other

Point of View

pessimism
Due to the forecast, foreboding fellas have cancelled the parade.
Despite the weather, bring umbrellas, join us as we promenade.
                                      optimism

April 7, 2020

Sponsor:Jenish Somadas - Let the Pens Flow, Antonyms contest
Form: Verse

Premium Member Ee-Ore

No way!
am I a
pessimist,
a realist,is what
I say-
I am
not an ass,
donkey maybe
definitely,male not
a lass-
I talk
very slow,
but this I know
fresh sweet carrots help my
words flow-
slowly
one by one,
this pleasing drawl
holds all my many fans,
in thrall

Brian Strand
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member He Gave As Good As He Got

“He Gave As Good As He Got” Miracle Man 2/13/2024 On occasion, He confessed, he had been bested. But never, did he feel like he was a bruiser. He’s an optimist, and thinks his opponent just got "lucky". Only a pessimist, would view himself as a loser.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Selfishness

All the hemogoblins in you body,
Wont be enough to teach you to love somebody.
If you are too caught up with yourself,
You will never see the worth of somebody else.

To be happy is to not be selfish.
To feel happy is to not be a pessimist.
I cant help a man who sleeps,
While everybody else plant their seeds
© Elya Ntsh  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member No More

Listen to poem:
how dare they try to pawn off
their ugliness on me
cast to the winds
without a care

their dark assumptions
and vile opinions
hypocrites and villains
often in sheep’s clothing

I close the door on
all that’s gloom and doom
sarcastic and destructive

how dare they rain
on my parade



AP: 3rd place 2022

Premium Member Don'T

Don't be a burden
but a blessing.
Don't be a complainer
but a changer.
Don't be a pessimist
be an optimist.
Don't be a quitter
be a sticker.
Don't be a sitter
be a doer.
Don't become complacent
and wait for things to happen,
cause them to happen.
Don't be part of the problem
be the solution.
Make Jesus proud.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.

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