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Is a glass half full or (I'll say it) half empty?
Is there a set rule defining this query?
Depends, I suppose, on the light and the angle,
the mood of the viewer and their emotional tangles.
Myself, you see, and speaking only for me,
(tossing presumptions to side, it can only thus be),
having viewed this glass, from one side and top,
from bottom in twilight to sunniest spots; I find,
amazingly so, (and wouldn't you just know)
with the level the same from sunset to next,
one gander yields, yes, half empty, unmolested and dormant,
with revisit followed, now half full yet naught changed;
a most vexing torment, exceedingly strange.
Concluding thusly, logic harnessed to mind,
hitched like oxen goaded to find
a riddle so simple, the answer so glaring
contents remaining, in mockery still;
each of us find, through our very own eyes
our emotional state dictates how it's filled.
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Ye' Old Question on that Wascally Glass

Contributed by invierno on Tuesday, 8th July 2014 @ 11:32:14 AM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

Is a glass half full or (I'll say it) half empty?
Is there a set rule defining this query?
Depends, I suppose, on the light and the angle,
the mood of the viewer and their emotional tangles.
Myself, you see, and speaking only for me,
(tossing presumptions to side, it can only thus be),
having viewed this glass, from one side and top,
from bottom in twilight to sunniest spots; I find,
amazingly so, (and wouldn't you just know)
with the level the same from sunset to next,
one gander yields, yes, half empty, unmolested and dormant,
with revisit followed, now half full yet naught changed;
a most vexing torment, exceedingly strange.
Concluding thusly, logic harnessed to mind,
hitched like oxen goaded to find
a riddle so simple, the answer so glaring
contents remaining, in mockery still;
each of us find, through our very own eyes
our emotional state dictates how it's filled.

Copyright © invierno ... [ 2014-07-08 11:32:14]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Ye' Old Question on that Wascally Glass (User Rating: 1 )
by RussellReinhardt on Tuesday, 8th July 2014 @ 01:51:19 PM AEST
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Hello there bud

So true and strange how the same person can view the same glass in two minds. One day half full and the next half empty. We humans are wired weird LOL. Good write food for thought or should one say food for confusion. Blessings

Greetings
Rus

Re: Ye' Old Question on that Wascally Glass (User Rating: 1 )
by Archie on Tuesday, 8th July 2014 @ 04:02:58 PM AEST
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You perceive well the things of life and struggle. This is something I am still learning to do.

Re: Ye' Old Question on that Wascally Glass (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Tuesday, 8th July 2014 @ 04:06:08 PM AEST
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The glass's content is at 50% ;-) And stop tormenting my vexes!!!

Me thinks this is a cool poem.

Thankies you wascally wabbit!

Re: Ye' Old Question on that Wascally Glass (User Rating: 1 )
by ladyfawn on Tuesday, 8th July 2014 @ 05:31:45 PM AEST
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so true! what an eloquent way of saying it all,

hugs n' love nessa

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