Kicking the Bucket

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Kicking the Bucket

I do not like the bucket list, in fact I just abhor it
even though I know the masses tend to just adore it.
Anything where many rush to jump onto a wagon,
makes my skin crawl and alerts my impulse to start gaggin’.
I like originality in labeling my wants.
I do not even like to visit trendy restaurants.
And so to ask me to record my bucket list for you,
let alone prioritize, choosing one or two
to brag about as though the label “bucket list” is clever,
makes me want to find a guillotine and pull the lever!

I have no list of what I want to do before I go.
I only have the wish to still maintain the status quo
by staying healthy and alert and doing every day
precisely what I want to as I make my way
toward the final hour and toward my final minute.
I simply want to live my life with me securely in it!
Sound of mind and active, engaged with other folks
without becoming fodder for younger people’s jokes.
Not the fogie sitting safely in her lair
bibbed and drugged and senile in the pen of elder care.

I want to end my time on earth devoid of tear or sigh
sitting at a table drinking rum and eating pie!!!

The Prompt: What is the eleventh item on your bucket list?
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/kick-it/

22 thoughts on “Kicking the Bucket”

  1. Laura Newhampshire's avatarLaura L.

    Amen. That’s something all this electronic media, social or otherwise, has given us: turning us all into masses of fad lemmings. Bucket list? Blargh. Ice bucket challenge? Are you kidding me? (Just donate s’ready.) Pie and rum? The next big thing?

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  2. shartline9's avatarshartline9

    I normally hate poetry. I have only been able to finish two poems in my life, one was Beowulf…the other one is this one! You made me laugh out loud and the cat freaked out! (it isn’t a normal occurance you see) Thanks for changing my mind about reading poetry.

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ha. Thanks, Shartline. You have made my day already. I don’t know why this blog brought out the rhyming in me with a vengeance. It just seems to make the thoughts come more easily to have a little puzzle to solve along with the words. I’ll look forward to seeing you here again.

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      1. hirundine608's avatarhirundine608

        Ms. Dykstra-Brown, Judy,You’re making some pretty large assumptions around re-incarnation. Life cannot be destroyed. Only its form changes. Light, cannot be destroyed. It can be split apart yet it is still ultimately light. Along with reincarnation, comes the acceptance of karma. That our karma dictates the next lesson of life. What is it, that makes you think you would be born again as a female? Or even on this planet? The same for men. If they have been cruel toward women? Chances are? Their karma will be to experience life, as a woman.

        I am not an expert in karma. I do not know. Yet for me the signs are clear, towards it.

        It’s my belief. I do not encourage others to do so. There are many who follow this belief. I happen to think that early Gnostic Christians did so too?

        The core of our being is light. It powers our life with electrical current. Yes, the body dies but the soul remains. Into the ethers and to await re-birth.

        So, for me, any “bucket list” really becomes meaningless. When the greatest adventure in life, awaits.
        Cheers Jamie

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          i hope you are correct, Jamie, and I’ve even had what see like memories of past lives. I once asked a psychic if she thought it was just my imagination and she said, “Of course. What do you think imagination is?” This statement has come back to me again and again over the years.

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        2. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Jamie, I hope you are correct. In fact, I’ve had what seem to be detailed memories of past lives. When I asked a psychic, “How do I know it’s not my imagination?” she answered, “Of course it is your imagination. What do you think imagination is?” I have thought of that statement so many times in my life.

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      2. hirundine608's avatarhirundine608

        While i have little practical experience of past lives? That should not dismiss the notions. There truly are more questions, than answers under heaven and earth. And, stranger things yet. Until the next life, I’m focussed on this one. Keep God in your heart and follow its teaching. Cheers Jamie.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          I agree. I don’t think we are put in this life to spend all our time worrying and trying to ffigure out the next. (I typed two ffs because there is some glitch that erases single f’s followed by “i’s” when I type comments. Is anyone else experiencing this? Strange. Seems to be happening only in comments.)

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  5. phoartetry's avatarphoartetry

    I agree with you Judy. I think what’s wrong with a bucket list is if you’re constantly living in the feature, ignoring what’s going on right now because you’re shooting for the goals, which happens so quickly that they’re over, and you have to chase another one, you’re not really living.

    I admire your rhyming. I’ve tried many times to write poems that rhyme, unsuccessfully, I must say. I get so frustrated, that I give up, but I never get tired reading them.

    Connie

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  8. Allenda Moriarty's avatarAllenda Moriarty

    I have had an aversion to bucket lists, too. Didn’t care for the movie,either. Now, when I think about pie, however, the list goes on and on. I’ll start with a piece of French Silk, in case I don’t make it any further than my first (and last) bite, at least it will be chocolate. Hmm, then I think I’ll have some lemon meringue to cleanse the palate for the next, which will be cherry topped with vanilla ice-cream.Take a break for some Mexican Train and a chance to digest a bit before moving on to a nice warm slice of my Grandma Smith’s apple pie. Yes, if you insist, a dollop of vanilla on that, too. Mustn’t show favorites in the family, so I’ll follow that by her dad’s pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Hmmm, I may be digging my grave with my dessert fork, but that Key Lime pie is calling. If there is anything I might have forgotten in my dotage, I hope it will come to me before I kick the bucket.

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  9. Allenda Moriarty's avatarAllenda Moriarty

    Yes, of course I mentioned cherry, unforgettable. As for pecan, how could I forget pecan living in Alabama? Not wanting to be a glutton, since it is a sin, after all, I did curtail my list somewhat. As for the rum raisin, you had me at the rum. Always my favorite drink, probably since it comes from sugar cane. As far as the raisins, you can keep them, but if I must add to the drink list, I will gladly add a little Bailey’s Irish Cream. What a way to go!

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