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26 Sep 03 - 01:07 AM (#1024995) Subject: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: The Fooles Troupe I'm looking for the poem that goes If you want to find out how much you'll be missed ... put your hand in a bucket of water up to the wrist... Pull your hand out. The hole that's left is the amount you'll be missed. I suspect it may have been set to music too Robin Robin |
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26 Sep 03 - 01:14 AM (#1025000) Subject: Lyr Add: THE INDISPENSABLE MAN From: katlaughing Looks as though this might be the one: THE INDISPENSABLE MAN Sometime when you're feeling important, Sometime when your ego's in bloom, Sometimes when you take it for granted You're the best qualified in the room. Sometimes when you feel that your going Would leave an unfillable hole, Just follow these simple instructions And see how they humble your soul. Take a bucket and fill it with water, Put your hand in it up to your wrist, Pull it out and the hole that's remaining Is a measure of how you'll be missed. You can splash all you wish when you enter, You may stir up the water galore, But stop, and you'll find that in no time It looks quiet the same as before. The moral in this quaint example Is do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember--- There's no indispensable man. |
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26 Sep 03 - 01:19 AM (#1025004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: The Fooles Troupe Woof! That was quick! Thanks! Robin who now is amenable to having this thread thrown open to the normal sort humourous blathering thread creep that goes on... :-) Is a Thread Creep a nasty poster? |
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26 Sep 03 - 01:21 AM (#1025005) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: The Fooles Troupe Sorry, we haven't finished... So who wrote it and when? Robin |
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26 Sep 03 - 04:59 PM (#1025302) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: katlaughing My goodness, demanding aren't we? **Big Grin** Best I've found is "Author Unknown," though there was a reference on one board, where someone else was looking for the same info, to Auden's As I walked out one evening which does have a similar verse: 'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. but the rest of the poem is unlike the one above. So, let's hear it for good ol' Anon-ee-mouse!LOL kat |
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26 Sep 03 - 06:08 PM (#1025343) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: McGrath of Harlow Never heard it in this form, but the suggestion that a good way to see how irreplaceable you are is to stick your face in a bowl of water, I've heard that often enough. Goes in my moind alongside the suggestioin that, if you think you are tired of living, just try to stop breathing, and see what your body feels about that. And who are you to overule your body in such mnatters? |
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26 Sep 03 - 08:25 PM (#1025405) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: Barbara Consider the frog, Secure in his bog In rain and stormy weather; Well, the girl/boy you kissed Will soon be missed, But a frog is a friend forever. Not sure who wrote this one either. Blessings, Barbara |
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18 May 17 - 04:54 AM (#3855666) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: FreddyHeadey Appleseeds has it dated as 1959 http://www.appleseeds.org/indispen-man_saxon.htm ©1959 used with author's permission "Indispensable Man" was originally published in "The Nutmegger Poetry Club under the name Saxon Uberuaga. It has also been published in "Boots" in Spring 1993, in "The Country Courier" 1996, "Rhyme Time" in Winter 2000, and in "Golden Times" in August 2003. Saxon White Kessinger is a member (and past president) of Gem State Writers' League and a member of Idaho Writers' League. She is an award winning writer, receiving Idaho Writers' League "2003 Lifetime Achievement Award," "Writer of the Year" in 1992, 1995, and 2002 and "Poet of the Year" in 1999 and 2000 from her Idaho State Leagues. She has published various poetry offerings and many articles in various newspapers and magazines. " Saxon White Kessinger died in 2010 http://lmtribune.com/obituaries/article_0ac3e9c3-7884-5315-880c-b8a73a0beb27.html |
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20 May 17 - 04:25 PM (#3856153) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Poem about being missed From: Jim Dixon Here's a source from a periodical called Power, volume 98, 1954. Here's another: Atlantic Coast Line News, Volumes 37-38, 1956. Unfortunately, these are under copyright, so only a snippet is viewable. |