Ditch the ads, upload images and much more - upgrade today from 5.95/month!
Read • Contests • Groups • Learn • Forums • Store • Help
 

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (Silver Trophy)

I had a very long list of dreams

A bucket full of things to do

But it seems it’s sprung a leak

And the dreams are slipping through

 

Among those dreams were things

I someday planned but, no

It seems life gets in the way

Making progress way too slow

 

I’ve seen much of the world

But not nearly enough for me

I want to watch my grandkids grow

And their babies, too you see

 

I’ve sailed the Nile, gazed ’cross the Rhine

Climbed a mountain high

I’ve watched the sun rise and set

And birds flying ‘cross the sky

 

Time goes by so fast these days

Leaving many hopes behind

If I could just go back a ways

I’d make dreams of a different kind

 

Ones that wouldn’t lose their grip

The  hands of time would hold on tight

Travel, a novel, all in the works

I’d dream my dreams of hope and light

 

But alas, my bucket’s got a hole in it

Just wont keep those dreams inside

I guess they’ll go with me to my grave

But they’ll be around for the next ride

 

Dee Garner

©January 12, 2009

Author notes

Option #1

A contest entry

    : , Your review:

    Comment Suggestion: What is your your first impression?
    • Line numbers  • Invite them to read
    : no Cost: 0 free left 0 points, You have (?)

Comments

1 - 32 of 32

  • afroqban
    February 10, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    i can see why this won, its great. I am so loving your ear for rhythm, i have a lot to learn about it, i see i can learn from your work. This entire piece flowed so well, i didnt stumble once. well done


    • catz Moderators member
      February 10, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you At my age I sometimes think about the things I've done and not done, thankful for a little time still left to accomplish some of those 'undone' things

      Dee


  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    January 28, 2009

    Edit | Reply

    excellent~

    Congrats on the Silver Trophy sis
    I think Da Hugh got upset with me cuz I didn't enter
    No link as to when it was started I usually get reminders for groups I am in haven't been until as of late........
    Hopefully I will able to make the next contest
    This is the first one I have missed in a long time
    Plz remind me and send me a link when the next one has started....would hate to get banished from the castle...........
    Again congrats..........Told ya this one would get you a trophy
    Hugs
    Your sis
    Susan~~~

    Ice storm yesterday trees fell power out and still some out........just now started snowing......with freezing rain mixed already an inch on the ground...I have been wanting snow now I got it..........pretty but oh so dangerous........Bruce went to milk with a friend and part time pastor of mine they went off the road.........scared them both pretty bad..KSP telling no one to get out unless they have to.........3 counties are in a state of emergency first time for that ever and esp Cville where I go take chemo...suppose to have that tomorrrow....
    Keep your fingers I don't lose power both brother in laws have and have no heat either.....using a generator and keeping food outside in coolers...........
    tis sad here in Ole Ky Home


    • catz Moderators member
      January 28, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Don't fret about missing the contest, Susan. I'm sure everyone and especially Hugh, understand that sometimes other things have to come first. I hope you're not considering taking a chance on traveling to the doctor tomorrow, what with the ice and snow. It seems that a lot of the northern US have been hit bad this winter. In Washington where my family live they've had extreme wearther there, too... flooding, mud slides, I-5 closed in places because of the flooding. And cold and snow along with the rain. As long as I lived in northwest Washington it never got that bad. And even in northeast Texas where my Dad lives and also a couple of dear friends, they've had awful weather. My friend/sis Morningstar123 on allpoetry lives there about a hundred miles north of my Dad and she's been telling me about the ice storm. And they were both hit hard by Hurricane Ike.

      Sorry, didn't mean for this to be such a long reply to your comment Just take care, Sis and be extra careful.

      love and
      Dee


  • jenelda silver member
    January 23, 2009
    Edit | Reply
    Congratulations Dee.


  • angelica silver member
    January 23, 2009
    Edit | Reply
    Congratulations Dee on winning the first SILVER for 2009.


  • Yemassee gold member
    January 23, 2009
    Edit | Reply
    Congrats on the silver.


  • Yemassee gold member
    January 22, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    A lovely poem with a lot of good sentiment. So many things to we never do, want to do.

    But alas, my bucket’s got a hole in it
    Just wont keep those dreams inside

    Seems to hit me just in the right spot today, thanks.


  • lindaburns
    January 22, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    SO MANY OF US have a hole in our bucket.
    I like your poem. It makes me glad for the things
    the character has done and a little sad that all
    wishes weren’t fulfilled. Good luck in Contest #40.


  • gaze
    January 22, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    You know you can use TEC7 to fix that hole on the bucket, right? As usual you wrote a very good poem, and here I specially liked the end, when you talked about next time around...
    Fix the bucket and keep the wishes alive


  • Blushfulmoon silver member
    January 19, 2009
    Edit | Reply

    excellent~

    You know I didn't even see or know about this contest until 2 days ago....Hugh is gonna send me to the dungeon............but have felt so bad and only doing very little short poems.......I have one about a bucket but Lord knows where it's at LOL
    Loved this sis..............
    Best of luck in the contest
    Hope ya get a trophy for this one
    Hugs
    Your sis
    Susan~~~


  • amysticwriter silver member
    January 18, 2009
    Edit | Reply
    Excellent write, I never seem to get a list made...course there is not too much I havn't done...


  • Mary O gold member
    January 18, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    "My bucket’s got a hole in it

    I had a very long list of dreams
    A bucket full of things to do
    But it seems it’s sprung a leak
    And the dreams are slipping through

    Time goes by so fast these days
    Leaving many hopes behind
    If I could just go back a ways
    I’d make dreams of a different kind"


    Great and catchy title. Isn't that the truth? Interesting thing for me right now is I see my young life being played over through my grandaughter. My thought is, I have the wonderful opportunity to imprint upon her memory. She's six now and has written four stories and is quite the artist as well. She has a wonderful voice and takes her piano lessons seriously. Who knows, as you reflect, perhaps my dreams will become possible through her.

    Enjoyed this very much. Good luck to you,
    ~Mary O






    • catz Moderators member
      January 18, 2009

      Edit | Reply
      Thank you for reading and for your nice comment
      Perhaps one saving grace of not being able to fulfill all of our hopes and dreams is that we can live them through our children and grandchildren. I have lots of those critters including some great grandchildren tp help me live mine And it's wonderful to see that they've added some of their own dreams and hopes.

      Dee


  • Wesley Storer
    January 17, 2009

    Edit | Reply

    Excellent fare.

    Life is nothing more than all the tiny little dreams we leave behind. Yes, time goes by fast. Quote is from the new Cint Eastwood movie, "Gran Torino". Best Wishes.


    • catz Moderators member
      January 18, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you, Wesley I didn't know until yesterday that The Bucket List is actually the name of a movie. I'd like to see it and also Gran Torino, which you mention. I've been seeing the previews for it on TV and it looks like a good movie... and of course with Clint Eastwood in it, it's a must see for me.


      Dee


  • jenelda silver member
    January 17, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Dear Dee, I thought I'd commented on your lovely poem, I must have missed it.
    I love your poem very much. It's nice to see tparts of our beautiful world. And never mind about your bucket having a hole in it, I'm sure you've lived a full life. Beautiful Dee.
    Love Jen


  • Hinemoa silver member
    January 17, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Hello Dee, How wonderful that you've traveled many places, I saw the movie The Bucket List and enjoyed it, but wouldn't want to try what they did. I think your commonsense was right when it kicked in at seventy, even at my age (46)I'd only go for the safe things in my list. LOL we'll leave it to the real young ones eh?
    Good luck Dee, this is a beaut poem.
    Hine


    • catz Moderators member
      January 17, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      I didn't even know that The Bucket List was a movie... thought it was just something Yem made up. so my poem may not even have anything to do with what it was meant to be. Oh well... what ya see is what ya get


      • Hinemoa silver member
        January 17, 2009
        Edit | Reply
        It's a great movie Dee it's great and it's exactly what you wrote about. At start of movie you think it's going to be crap but stick with it, it'll make you laugh and it'll make you cry. It has Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in it,take note of the guy in the snow at the beginning as it's significance at the end.


  • angelica silver member
    January 14, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Dear Dee, Things sure change as we get older, we can't do the things we could when we were younger, but even though your bucket has a hole in it the dreams always remain.
    Beautiful poem Dee.

    Love Joan

  • Just4u
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    I have the opposite problem, mine is so dang full and the road so rough
    that they keep sloshing out with every step...

    This winter is one that I wish I was a polar bear, in fact if the temps keep
    falling and breaking records I keep wondering where that global
    warming is as I could sure use some about now...lol

    Hugs...Eddy

    I do believe you meant to add a "next" to that last line

    But alas, my bucket’s got a hole in it
    Just wont keep those dreams inside
    I guess they’ll go with me to my grave
    But they’ll be around for the (next) ride


    • catz Moderators member
      January 13, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you Eddy, for the wonderful comment and for the missing word. I must have read that line a dozen times trying to figure out what it was missing

      Mum


  • J aime Coudre silver member
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Well hey sis, just cause that dang bucket got a hole in it don't mean you can't have big dreams...ones too big to get a way...and the important ones never get away...the ones we really want to keep..oh! ... it give me great pleasure to point out a mis-spelled word... "Rhine" river...if you please..wow don't think I was ever able to do that before...felt good... Good luck in the voting...


    • catz Moderators member
      January 13, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Thanks for pointing out the wayward Rhine River mispelling to me... now I get to point out that you did a wayward rose... "F does not make a rose but : F does Don't feel too bad though, I've done the same typo before.

      Thanks for the read and the comment
      Dee


      • J aime Coudre silver member
        January 13, 2009
        Edit | Reply
        Okay sis, I fixed it...and to think I looked real good to make sure all my t's were dotted and my I's were crossed before I submitted my comment...just so you could not find anything wrong..


  • hugh wyles silver member
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply

    Dear Dee,

    I'm sorry that your bucket's got a hole
    through which some of your aspirations leak
    but, with a steady heart and stoic soul,
    I'm sure you'll keep those you most keenly seek.

    I too have many dreams in which I yearn
    for spots that I have visited before
    to which I know I never will return
    that haunt me with their memories of yore.

    And, in this world there are so many places
    which I would love to visit if I could
    to see new sights, new spectacles, new faces....
    If I could only go to them, I would.

    But, as you say, Time passes now so fast
    and flies with greater speed from year to year.
    Those spectacles, so splendid in the past,
    will never be the same again, I fear.

    So, though it leaks new opportunities,
    my bucket cannot lose my memories.

    Thankyou for your wonderful poem which deserves lots of votes from the other entrants.
    Applause, love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)





    • catz Moderators member
      January 13, 2009
      Edit | Reply
      Thank you for the nice poetic comment, Hugh. It's much appreciated and it's good to see you online. I hope you'll have a chance to visit more often... it'll mean that Edna might be on the mend.
      Dee


  • suseann
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    See ya at the weigh station up a head. You and I both!  But curse those incidents and accidents that punched a hole in our buckets. They formed our itinerary for us. Partly by choice,partly by the hand of fate.This is a fantastic reflection in poetic form of wistful endevours of life.


  • iamfromabove
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    I wonder how many of us have a bucket like this? Wonderful write Dee
    I really enjoyed it.
    Best of luck
    mia


  • MargaretG silver member
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Dreams can get away when we are concentrating on the concerns of daily life. "Bucket with a hole in it" is a fine metaphor for how things slip away when we don't notice; but looking at what you have done, it is more than a lot of people! Dreams of a different kind might be too big to leak out.
    I like the poem a lot, Dee, best wishes in the contest.


  • leo2
    January 13, 2009

    Edit | Reply
    Dreams are elusive creatures aren't they? Perhaps M'Lady Darlene could weave you a dream catcher too. Good luck in the contest.

    Sincerely,
    Leo Long

1 - 32 of 32