Bucket List

*** Bucket List ***

   I want to discover the regions that rise
Up from between blades of grass and climb
To alien atmospheres; I want to examine for traces
  Of fingerprints left on guitar strings, to know
If talent carries a transmitting touch.


Then, I might dwell some long days peering  into
The brush strokes of Klee, VanGogh, Degas, and 
Pissarro (to name but a few) until radiant
  Perception gleans, directing my sight. Too,I 
Will draw  every face near me, every smile and eye.

From there, I will travel the alleyways of the world,
Helping to work for hope where little lives; 
Inspiring spirits bound by dark clouds 
Hanging too low, from which no rain flows...

But,I will list no more: the contents 
Of my bucket grow, but quench not the fire.

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(C) sally Young eslinger 12/25/20
Thanks be to God.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020



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Date: 8/16/2021 8:11:00 AM
Very nice
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Date: 12/27/2020 1:59:00 AM
That is a lovely list to investigate. Lovely poem. ~~
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Sally Eslinger
Date: 12/27/2020 11:39:00 AM
Sweet Victor! Lint is, being paralyzed, that is the bucket list of my soul, which leads me in dreams & from where this poem came. But I WILL DO as similarly as Ican which is all any ofus can! ????
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