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Hands On Poems - Poems about Hands On

Premium Member Time's Hands
Pensee crafted in my spirit a sparkling jewel of worth dreams unspoken, hopes half-formed wait until another life? ...

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Categories: hands on, age, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hands That Lit Eternity
her hands did not turn on light bulbs. they were light bulbs, they were clay vessels through which flowed a light tired from too much godliness. when she entered the room, it wasn’t her who entered, it was a silence that had lost its voice in a burned temple, and had come searching for it inside me. the angel beneath the bed came out like a...

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Categories: hands on, meaningful, mother son,
Form: Free verse



First Steps Funerals and Nanas Hands
First Steps Funerals and Nana's Hands By Evelyn Aimarie 2 days after my Nana's funeral My oldest son took his first steps. She was my grandmother on my father's side, but more like a mother to me. Palms textured like warm overwashed cotton sheets- thin but comfortable, and clothes line, spring sunshine soft. Pastel blue intricate barely visible veins whispered...

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Categories: hands on, grandmother, love,
Form: I do not know?
As I Slam Arthritic Hands Into A Broken Keyboard, Nobody Can Hear Me Screaming
In a rather egotistical and pathetic attempt to immortalize myself, in something I lost, everything. And now that I’ve burned all of my bridges and I’m drowning, the only thing I have left to do is work. And it's not working. And the only ones praising my work are little kids, the same age I was when I broke everything. Lucky me. I watch them do the same foolish things, reaching for...

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Categories: hands on, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member pleats and folds
pleats and folds a winged makeover ~ sleight of hands AP: 3rd place 2025...

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Categories: hands on, appreciation, art,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member GRANDMA’S PRAYING HANDS
Hands of wisdom Gone on to God’s Kingdom Guidance in understanding Knowing and sustaining Heaven on high The watch from Thy Encouragement that was broad My heart being assured Grandma’s years of living experience Her impact and influence Strength endurance Grandma wise Seeing I to I Times of Discipline Wrong to right Youthful years sometimes resent As an Adult, I understand Her song her own, “Afterwhile” I am enriched to stand and withstand Her...

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Categories: hands on, appreciation, celebration, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
No Gentle Hands
The master cracks his whip across the horse’s trembling flank, pushing the beast to its limits until the wildness snaps and the horse reacts, a flurry of chaos beneath the sting. When silence falls, the master believes the animal has learned, believes the wounds are healed. He reaches out with clean hands, petting the horse's weary muzzle, his fingers gentle, but not soft enough. The horse,...

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Categories: hands on, abuse, analogy, animal, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NOT HOLDING HANDS
Why couldn't I hold your hand? You ask Yourself in golden bowers of infinity - Was it because he felt too old to do it? It was too infantile an act to make? Questions! Always questions! It is the time. And I tear myself away from this I should not defile the memory Of the dead, or besmerch their truth - If truth...

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Categories: hands on, bereavement, death, emotions, mom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the mystery of the universe, where mortal hands cannot stop the fall of flowers
In the mystery of the universe, where mortal hands cannot stop the fall of flowers, tears gather like pearls on the petals of destiny, without defying the law of time, for what must be, shall be, like the twilight that bows before the night, and the stars, in a trembling choir, bow to the dusk with grace and...

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Categories: hands on, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Petit Fours Etiquette- The Soupbone Crooners
When asked what there names were one responded quickly and spoke with a very heavy voice saying his stage name was "Rink rasher" and his partners was " Fresh Meat" he shook my hand and began a conversation: while his partner stood silent with a frown on his face. I was try to bring him into the conversation asking questions often...

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Categories: hands on, character, culture, film, music,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member No one to tell -Double Swap Quatrain
Sponsor: Joseph May Contest Name: The Double Swap 7/7/25 You're not there, there's no one to tell. Hurry home to tell you, tears swell. Life's so lonely, miss you my dear. There's no one to tell, you're not here. My world was all you, you only. Miss you my dear, life's so lonely. Trying to cope, still feeling...

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Categories: hands on, death,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Write
Pen presses against paper Black ink flows across white lines My hand moves steadily Words appear...

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Categories: hands on, write,
Form: Free verse
Hold hands together and pass
Life is beautiful but the journey is no less than a rollercoaster ride. Let's hold hands together and pass each high tide. Let's make it interesting and cherish it together. ...

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Categories: hands on, blessing, care, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Idle Hands
a scribble here a scribble there my pen randomly drawing diagrams and spelling out words meaningless chatter idle artwork mindless spilling of thought overflow nervous tic kinetic outreach mental gymnastics creative outlet for pent-up energy AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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Categories: hands on, art, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hands Can Make Hearts
Two hands can shape a heart, in the gap between fingers. Out of silence, a signal in trembling air. Hands hold, hush, heal and reveal, in touch of fingers, feelings and gel gestures. They cup tears, clench truths, cradle hurts, crush promises, relay messages , meld minds, and wave goodbye without words. Fingers trace the soft crescent of faces, feeling to shape the form beyond what eyes see, and hearts wish, to a warm shiny smooth sculpture in marble. We surrender to the hollow...

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Categories: hands on, heart,
Form: Free verse

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