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These Hands

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Open in friendship, a gift to hold,

cradles of their gentleness,

the light caress of warm love spoke,

words obsalete as gestures mould

tools of expression a life of their own.

Betrayers of our hidden light,

wringing, twiddling, hold your own tight,

put them together, or reach for the light....

resounding echoes in loud apraise,

visulization no words be spoke....

in animated motion, tempers flare,

to slap, punch or wave in the air...

these tell tale tools of creative form..

that lift a bloom and engulf the gloom,

IĀ hold mine out to love.....

◄ Desolation 3 ( the earthquake )

The Void ►

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tracey bucknell

Fri 10th Feb 2012 01:23

aww i'm so glad my poem brought you such lovely memories steve :)

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Steve Higgins

Fri 10th Feb 2012 01:04

My old dad was brought up in the war years with very little education. He had a number of jobs, all manual jobs and he worked as a farm hand, a grave digger and ended his working life as a road worker working with tarmac. After he died I found his note book in which he had scribbled various things, one was this -'an open hand is an open mind -a closed fist is a closed mind'. Your poem brought back the thought of him. Thanks, Steve

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tracey bucknell

Mon 6th Feb 2012 13:18

hiya stella :) i thought i'd finally join, and share some of my poems, aarrghh ..lol xx

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Sun 5th Feb 2012 22:53



Hello Trae...good to read you :)

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 5th Feb 2012 15:23

Subject - original
Treatment - imaginative
Result - pleasing!

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tracey bucknell

Sun 5th Feb 2012 13:41

thanks andy, glad you liked it :) yeah i have wrote loads without rhyming, but the comments i got were that i should try rhyming..lol xx i'll put one on in a few weeks that doesn't rhyme, see what you think xxx

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Andy N

Sun 5th Feb 2012 13:27

my favourite line here is 'Betrayers of our hidden light' although i like the beat in this and the rhyming is top notch too.. have you ever tried writing without rhyming? x

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