Your hands

Inspired by conversations with Ana Sophia, among other things ...

Your hands,
are nothing like
the ones that
came before.

Your hard,
is not one
from the in,
but from the out.

You are a man,
born of earth
and dirt and
work and pain.

Maybe that is
what I need,
to teach me
to love again.

Author's Note

Reviews

[NeiL ArandA]

They are hard to find and hard to come by if we aren't looking in all the right places. I love this line

You are a man,
born of earth
and dirt and
work and pain.

It's something about people who have been exposed to hard life make's them treasure the most important. Well expressed KLGoode :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it

[Einstein Noodle]

poetic enigma can be so alluring .. i am captivated by the complexity i see in this .. but try as i may .. i can not decipher clearly .. in the second verse, first line .. do you mean to say hard? .. just want to make sure .. pictures of miners and steel workers of the 50's flash across my mind .. all those dads and husbands that got up, went and worked, came home .. had a little respite .. then back in the morning to have another go round .. my own dad was such a man .. never complained .. i think they are heroes .. but your poem is complex .. so many things can entwine into the mix .. nice work! your poem captured me
E.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, I did mean to say hard, as in sometimes the hardness is on the inside and sometimes a hard person on the outside is soft inside.

[Einstein Noodle]

got it! just wanted to make sure ;)
E.

[Ghost of Jupiter]

Man I have missed your work ... Simple yet touching with the images of strength in supporting hands yet gentle in love.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, I appreciate it. I have been busy, not sure but I am close to 100 pages now.

[Rene Salinas]

I read into the reality of being grounded. Much is written about love that "fuels the stars" that inspires the greatest inventions that reaches beyond time. How about the little grain of salt earned through dedication and hard sweat. Isn't that love if not so romantic equally effective? Poor Salieri having to live through the times of Mozart he suffered yet he was still quite the musician. Or Camille Claudel so much suffering and hardships never to found out she was a fine artist.

There is mistery here.

I have no answers.

Thankyou

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. Yes. We often value the outer skin, and the appearance, only to find out that outer appearance isn't real.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Amazingly reflective write with pathos and frailty and understanding and insight and desire.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you. I think sometimes we reach for what is most clear to us -- a poet with a seemingly soft heart, for example, and end up getting something entirely different.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yes but sometimes it is so far from our orbit is seems impossible!