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# Faint Praise
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/faint-praise/
- Published: 2024-02-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Objective standards notwithstanding -- and are there any other kind -- no standard can exist depending on the perceiver's state of mind, since if it is, it's not a standard, but an opinion that's rendered from the per...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Objective standards notwithstanding --  
and are there any other kind --  
no standard can exist depending  
on the perceiver's state of mind,  
since if it is, it's not a standard,  
but an opinion that's rendered  
from the perspective of its host.  
It may be popular, at most,  
but isn't truly universal,  
the way a meter or a gram  
produce a measure worth a damn,  
and never subject to reversal.  
Those limitations understood,  
I thought this thing was pretty good.