Handprints Poems - Poems about Handprints

Recycled

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Born out of time, 
I felt different from mankind. 
As a child I would fly at night 
and leave the body behind.

Soaring like an eagle
I am dust upon the wing.
I am atoms in the morning air
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No More

...He stares anywhere but my eyes
But boys will be boys and he's just a guy
I should smile and be happy
Because it means he likes what he sees
That's all that should matter to me
I shouldn't be gre...

Comfortable being Miserable

...you were completely comfortable
being miserable
like pain was a roommate
like the yelling was a lullaby
like love was supposed to sting,
and silence meant everything was fine
he broke you in ch...

Habituation

...What you don’t see is the river of mind
coming through from the past.

The future also comes through,
your handprints are all in place
waiting to be nailed down.

You see a brush leaning again...

Imprints

...A martyr poltergeist left an elegy
Not much eulogizing the choice of a strategy.
Its undead friends never met their ends, they cannot be
The least affected by all this atrocity.

A cry of help w...

Days Bygone

...Sediments are yet to be cleared
From the window sill of the days bygone
Handprints of an owner's ignorance
Remains carved on the glass alone.

Fossils of a lively refuge
Still masked by dust ve...

Fever Ward

...Not a room for the waiting
or the receiving of the waiting,
but a room for a liquid thinking
a turgidity
that trickles through plastic tubes.

Is this where doors remain jammed
forever between...

Those were the days

...Looking back to that exact day 
My daughter ran towards me.
Waving something held in hand, 
Something you made  for me 
You couldn't wait much  longer 
 for mummy's eyes to see 
How exciting St...

The stony wall of freedom

...On the stony wall laid the handprints of heroes;
Their bloody prints serving as a reminder of the past
Their fight for freedom was a rocky journey 
With the air mixed with the scents of blood and ...

ON THE FORECOURT OF THE STARS

...ON THE FORECOURT OF THE STARS

Mama Mia! What a voice!
Her depth of emotion carries the show.
Cast of friends slow burn the audience.
Shimmy of stars with sensual overtures.

Mama Mia! ...

A Barcode

...I didn't notice that the lines had appeared. 
Tendrils of color stretching across my pale skin. 
The blacked lines from a tight grip,
Handprints made a map of the lines I crossed. 
I started to t...

Red Yellow Purple Grey

...“Be Gentle..” I plead through water colour eyes,
As your brush traces my blank canvas,
Colour me red, purple, yellow, grey,
Cover me in fingerprints, bite marks, handprints, dismay.

“It's my fi...

Odyssey

...The Ancient Odyssey of clubs to bombs
from red ochre handprints on cave walls
   to the destroyer of worlds
is a long-traveled road with the wormy flesh of war
   and blood-soaked fields
where w...

To My Father

...I can feel the ghosts of your handprints on my body
Like scars that don’t hurt anymore but once did.
No one else can see them,
But I’ll always know they were there.
You didn't ask if you could le...

Your Road

...i sit in my car,
idling with the burning engine.
my radio only plays your voice,
my rearview mirror only shows your car.
handprints plastered around the seat, the doors;
a part of you lingers,
...

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