Destinies and universal moments fitting together perfectly. Gorgeous poem Jude.

lines and times interlaced into the palms of aging hands -- a beautiful, moving thought Jude -- peace and love my friend -- Jon Michael

As intricate lines across the hand, your words weave together beautifully.

Oustanding and pround write Jude
So much said in so few words
Peace be with you

William

powerful is the 'grasp' of our hands... great piece!

I can't quite grasp the words I want to use for this splendiferous poem! You just keep hitting them out of the ball park! Hard to say it's your best since I have forgotten some of what was your best,after all these years, but it's the best I can remember;-)
! truly love it Jude!

Eileen

your cerebrations and phraseology are smoothly blended with effective simile ... richard

Its always a pleasure to read your works.Beautifully written piece.take care

EDWIN

great palm read Robert, made me look at mine. this gypsy read my palm in the parking lot for a dollar, it was so accurate I didn't mind paying her. cheers

Jude,
This is beautiful writing, wonderful poetry.

John

Breathtaking, Jude. Fabulous metaphor and imagery. Such beauty and eternal truth captured within those powerful last two lines, an awesome summation. Another one of your very bests. It so reminds me of my oft-trotted-out fav lines from Browing: "Ah, but a man's reach exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?", and, incidentally, of a poem that was "with me" all last week by Imtiaz Dharker, entitled "What the palm-reader said then":

"But was it you? Could that have been you I saw
the other day standing in the middle
of the crowd as if you were listening to a river
... and people walking round you like fatelines
falling away from an open hand?"

As others have said, exhibits a wonderful sense of universal awareness, sensitivity and connectedness (with one or the many) and a marvellous throw-back to your recent thoughts in "ventriloquist" too... hand-in-glove... hand-in... puppet!! :)) Totally love this. Khi-ro Kate xx

Beautiful writing dear man...Hugss

Nicely done, Jude ... hints of palm reading, and life lessons blended into one poem.

The last two lines bring a connectedness, a beautiful write - thank you. Well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

'interlacing destinies are created by allowing
collective moments to share universal selves:..'
Brilliant, Jude... so true, and truly brilliant!!!
Thank you!! xox :-D

This master poet never fails to gift us with words that show us what's possible for all poets who pursue the craft diligently. I doubt I'll ever reach his plateau for that requires genius and I'm but a mere wordsmith. Bravo Jude!

fabulous divination

Truly awesome write my friend...

fee

I do surely feel a connection with this one. Like the last line best. Possiblities come to you whenever time is right. Freedom carries with it some absolutely horrors sometimes, but we can face whatever together.

your eternity and travel are your record and road to the future, at this time,i am holding a winged creature in mine, so you have to exuse the informal typing, but still in the other i see what you're saying, and with such descriptive analogy. loved it, thank you! jasmin horst

It has been said that the complete story of our lifetime is visible within the palm of our hand. If this is true, intertwining our hand with another's is so symbolic when we consider sharing our life with them. Even an infant knows to grasp onto its parent's hand for love and security. I had to read this a few times to get a clear view of what this poem was saying to me. I should know better than to read other reviews before I let a poem settle into my bones and take on that amazing life of its own. Profound poetry, Jude.
Take care,
Sherry

The hands that writes have its own baggage of old scars, some born with others accentuated by life.
Grasp, not only for the fingers.

Georg

A lot of depth in those hands.... Wonderful poetry.

i love this-especially the final lines

my hand fits into your thoughts,
dreams of life flowing within our grasp

To me, that is an ultimate gem of possibility. Your mind works wonders and compels those who really engage in what you express to react. So good, Jude. Thank you. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Palmistry and chiromancy - reading your palm as opposed to your obituary. I've got a grasp it relates to divination the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm. Where the mind connects occult poetry through pseudoscience, interpretations of various lines and palmar features across various schools of palmistry.

Palmistry can trace its roots back to Indian, Hindu Astrology known in Sanskrit as Jyotis and Roma, gypsy fortune tellers. The Hindu sage Valmiki is thought to have written a book, whose title translates in English as "The Teachings of Valmiki Maharshi on Male Palmistry", comprising 567 stanzas, more than 5,000 years ago. From India, the art of palmistry spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries in Europe. Palmistry came to China in around 3,000 B.C. It then progressed to Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it. Modern palmists often combine traditional predictive techniques with psychology, holistic healing, and alternative methods of divination. I read this as I do much of your poetry, Jude, to be alternative poetry.

To grasp the knowledge is to know each area of the palm and fingers is related to a god or goddess. "Length if days is in her right hand, riches and honor are in her left." (Proverbs 3:16)

The most common classifications used by modern palmists are

Earth hands are generally identified by broad, square palms and fingers, thick or coarse skin, ruddy color, and . The length of the palm from wrist to the bottom of the fingers is usually equal to the length of the fingers.

Air hands exhibit square or rectangular palms with long fingers and sometimes protruding knuckles, low-set thumbs, and often dry skin. The length of the palm from wrist to the bottom of the fingers is usually less than the length of the fingers.

Water hands are seeable by the short, sometimes oval-shaped palm, with long, flexible, conical fingers. The length of the palm from wrist to the bottom of the fingers is usually less than the width across the widest part of the palm, and usually equal to the length of the fingers.

Fire hands are characterized by a square or rectangular palm, flushed or pink skin, and shorter fingers. The length of the palm from wrist to the bottom of the fingers is usually greater than the length of the fingers.

Grasp fits into my thoughts...prophetic and mystical...Sun line, union line, Mercury line, Travel lines, stars, crosses, triangles, tridents and rings...science and skeptics, Hollywood makes movies from scripts of these kind of paranormal palm creases...

Sage

Jude,
"my hand fits into your thoughts,
dreams of life flowing within our grasp"

absolutely stunning words, I can feel your energy flowing through, an amazing poem to go to sleep with. I am so glad I stopped by your page.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem.

by the way, great new bio pic, just loved it!

Much love, light, and peace,
Amber "V"