Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[outragous76]

I am not a fan of poetry, nor art, but in a way I think it is more meaningful when you then stumble across something that you do like, and below is one such example:

The Indispensable Man

(by Saxon White Kessinger)

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime 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 the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much 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 quite the same as before. 

The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.

[Rod Paradise]

http://www.unicat.net/en/index2-Galerie.html Lottery win required - but for a transglobe these are the nuts.

Now that's a proper bit of kit. What adventures I could have.

Get me one please Rod.

Euromillions big win - one time & you're on - after I've ordered mine!!!

[Kev B]

I am not a fan of poetry, nor art, but in a way I think it is more meaningful when you then stumble across something that you do like, and below is one such example:

The Indispensable Man

(by Saxon White Kessinger)

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime 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 the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much 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 quite the same as before. 

The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.

That's excellent.

[RED-DOG]

I am not a fan of poetry, nor art, but in a way I think it is more meaningful when you then stumble across something that you do like, and below is one such example:

The Indispensable Man

(by Saxon White Kessinger)

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime 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 the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much 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 quite the same as before. 

The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.

That's excellent.

+1

[MANTIS01]

Good poem. But has completely robbed me of any confidence so not altogether enjoyable.

[Bongo]

Jaberwocky. Lewis Carroll at his surreal best. Carroll is not really a poet as such, but here he rivals the great Edward Lear.

Random fact: Alice in Wonderland is actually a satire of modern (at the time) mathematics.

I wish you and your cohort would explain some of these outlandish claims.

I read about it in New Scientist but it seems you need to log in to that to read it. I think this covers much of the same ground though:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07bayley.html?pagewanted=1

[tikay]

I am not a fan of poetry, nor art, but in a way I think it is more meaningful when you then stumble across something that you do like, and below is one such example:

The Indispensable Man

(by Saxon White Kessinger)

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime 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 the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much 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 quite the same as before. 

The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.

Very good, superb in fact.

[RED-DOG]

How about this concise effort from Mohamed Ali.

Me,

Whee!

[Karabiner]

I was always fond of this classic effort carved on the door of a public loo back in the day when you had to pay.

Here sit I broken-hearted,

Paid a penny and only farted.

[RED-DOG]

I was always fond of this classic effort carved on the door of a public loo back in the day when you had to pay.

Here sit I broken-hearted,

Paid a penny and only farted.

In similar vein..

While you are reading what I've put,
you might be pissing on your foot.

[RED-DOG]

This stuff is wasted on Tony.

[Karabiner]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Laid the track and laid it well
Early trains they went like hell
Why it’s failed I just can’t tell

As a bard I dredge the well
Seek the words to break the spell
Look for answers I can sell
Poetry in motion quell

Snow and rain and leaves that fell
All combined to give him hell
As it fails please do not tell
Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[Laxie]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Laid the track and laid it well
Early trains they went like hell
Why it’s failed I just can’t tell

As a bard I dredge the well
Seek the words to break the spell
Look for answers I can sell
Poetry in motion quell

Snow and rain and leaves that fell
All combined to give him hell
As it fails please do not tell
Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Shame on you trying to buy him off with references to trains.

[RED-DOG]

I just poured some milk into my tea from a cardboard carton, (Horrible things, we only use them in emergency) and it came out all in a dollop, plopped into the tea a bit too quick like, and then splashed out again without mixing.

The tea was still black, and the milk, which was now lying on the kitchen counter, was still white.

How does that happen?

[RED-DOG]

Don't you just hate it when a parcel arrives, you have no idea what's in it, and the person it's addressed to isn't in?