Once a friend tried to read my palm
She held up hers to show me
That each hand has two lines
Curving their way along your flesh
Or so her palm reading book told her.
She took my hand but couldn’t read it,
The lines curved in weird ways and
There were too many
Crossing and crowding and nudging each other.
Long lines that emerge from the edge of my hand
Then end abruptly in the middle.
Small lines like little scars
That start from nowhere
And go nowhere,
Seeming with little point or purpose.
She gave my hand back in a hurry and ran off
Saying my lines were unreadable,
But I like to think that my hands
Tell of many journeys and people and ideas
All crowding together, competing for time and thought
My lines tell of places to see and things to do
Expeditions I have made and have yet to make.
My life seems fuller then the lives of those
Whose palms have only two clear lines
Cutting evenly across their hands.
Author notes
I bet everyone who reads this looks at their hands.
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I like this. I like how you show that sometimes superstition really isn't real and how the lines on your hand don't always dictate every aspect of your life.
I hope you live a full life
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I like this poem. My favorite part was:
"But I like to think that my hands
Tell of many journeys and people and ideas
All crowding together, competing for time and thought
My lines tell of places to see and things to do"
The description of the hands was also really good.
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Thanks Mar!!!
I'm glad you liked it!
-Colin
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Loverly
It's kinda funny, I didn't look at my hands until you said "I bet everyone who reads this looks at there hands."
Anyways.....
It's really interesting on how you can write a poem about hands, and life lines!
You must be a great poet to do so.
This poem is very easy to understand, and very well put.
( This actually reminds me of a friend looking at my hand saying " That's weird katrina, I don't know when your gonna die." )
Of course I doubt she could read hands that well.....
I love your poem!
It is something I could never write about very well.
But you managed to write a very good subject about it!
celtic
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Thank you!
I'm glad you liked it and thank's for the read.
-Colin
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wonderful
I have always thought that hands tell a lot about a person.Not just the lines the feeling of ones hands defines you. -
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I'm glad you liked it and I agree.
-Colin
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