<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450592" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Her Hands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have you seen her hands, gnarled and crooked with age? <br>Translucent skin accenting blue-black veins, <br>Contrasting tendon cords of white through spots<br>Of brown upon the backs of her old hands? <br> <br>Those hands were once the strength of our household.<br>They fashioned us into a family core.<br>They bound us with the mastic of their love.<br>Without apparent weariness they cooked, <br>And cleaned, and washed, performing endless tasks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No motion lost in their resolve, they spoke<br>In silent speech. <br>Articulate, when truth involved; <br>Elequent, in matters of the heart; <br>Convincingly, when we had misbehaved.<br>On rocking lap, their touch would calm my troubled sleep; <br>Madicinal was their caress on fevered brow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Restive age has slowed the winging of those birdlike hands.<br>Now, trembling with fatigue they struggle to maintain<br>Their height, afraid to fall, too weak to fly, <br>They watch the flock on wing, its passing south across<br>The winter's sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wait. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Blank Verse)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450592" data-title="Her Hands de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="Have you seen her hands, gnarled and crooked with age? Translucent skin accenting blue-black veins, Contrasting tendon cords of white through spots Of brown upon the backs of her old hands? Those hands were once the strength of our household...."></div> </div> </div>

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