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Kick the Can Hard-Bucket List

I’ve kicked the damn bucket turned it upside down pieces of a lae fell out, yards of fabric hand-woven bright The spill was tremendous out came tinksa’s prayer flags singing bowls and melted glass from Pele Kneeling in the snow of winter, in I peer the bottom is not insight, wetness shimmers and seas call oil films on Northern lights Before me, before my time my Grandad played kick-the-can damn good idea as toe meets bucket, I howl perhaps, I will go see a polar bear! No regrets fill my bucket for I want mine full of colored bits of Lhasa windchimes from Bhutan Dented, by life marked, decorated hell morphed, I intend to rise on comet tails look for me in ashes on a wind in the H i m a l ayas Poet: Debbie Guzzi

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Date: 3/22/2013 4:10:00 PM
Debbie, Congratulations in the "Bucket list" contest. always~ Linda
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Date: 3/22/2013 6:36:00 AM
Wow...so cool, Debbie. Congrads!
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Date: 3/21/2013 7:23:00 PM
Much congrats Debbie....great win..Donna
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Date: 3/21/2013 6:26:00 PM
Excellent free verse, Debs. I just noticed a congrats on both your poem and mine, so it means the contest must just be judged.I better go see how we did!! Congrats!!
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Date: 3/20/2013 2:44:00 PM
Reads like an interesting bucket list..Good luck in the contest if an entry..Thanks for stopping by..Sara
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Date: 3/20/2013 12:47:00 PM
Sounds like you have had an interesting journey...Wind in the Himalayas,,great spot to glide...rick
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