The Junk Box

15 years ago

I have been reading poetry and I just read this and I thought it is speaking to us fellow junkers, because not only do we create things out of junk, we also help each other out with comfort and prayer when we are low!

Nana/Grandma Sylvia http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e3/NanaGrandma/?action=viewÂ¤t=P1000343.jpg

My father often used to say "My boy don't throw a thing away;your'find a use for it some day"

So in a box he stored up things

bent nails, old washers, pipes and rings,

and bolts and nuts and rusty springs.

Despite each blemish and each flow.

Some use for everything he saw;

With things material, this was law.

And often, when he'd work to do,

He searched the junk box through and through

and found old stuff as good as new

And I have often thought since then,

That father did the same with men;

He knew he'd need their help again.

He seems to me he understood

That men, as well as iron and wood,

May broken be and still be good

Despite the vices he'd display

He bever threw a man away

But kept him for another day.

A human junk box is this earth

and into it we're tossed at birth,

To wait the day we'll be of worth.

Although bent and twisted, weak of will,

And full of flaws and lacking skill,

Some service each can render still

Edgar Guest

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Comments (7)

leveta
15 years ago
What a wonderful poem....Thank you for shareing it...
concretenprimroses
15 years ago
Great poem.
kathy
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Marlene Kindred
15 years ago
Thanks for sharing the great message!
sunnyca_gw
15 years ago
Very nice, suits us to a T!! Edgar Guest was 1 of my favorite poets in grade school. We were required to study from very old books. Some from late 1800's that were kept in basement of the 1 room school house I went to for several years. Lady teacher seemed to think they would last longer if kept in room next to the furnace. Oh, does anyone have GK that can't learn multipication tables- just have the kid write each 1 10 times,mon. 2"s 2x1=2 etc each 1 10 times, tues the 3x ones so in 8 days they will know them all. MIL told my son to do that when the teacher was ready to give up on him, 8 days later teacher wanted to know our secret. It's called repetition-foreign idea to lot of folks now!! Jan
susiewantsroses
15 years ago
Fantastic Poem. I can see how we fit perfectly into that discription of character.

Thanks!!!!

Susie
susiesunshine
15 years ago
I'm the other Susie... and I
say.... " DITTO " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and I say Dang Proud to fit into that BOX!!!
Love the Poem !!!
Thanks for sharing NanaGram !!!!\

God Bless !
SusieSunshine
luna_llena_feliz
15 years ago
What a wonderful and touching poem! Thank you so much for sharing it, Sylvia!