Poetic response to “Beginnings” prompt
Not of My Time
This hand print on a cave wall is a relic
of a world before time ripened
into numbers, before names were recorded.
The small scrap once attached to someone
is shaped for work at some ancient task
and splayed as to assert its presence.
My hand fits neatly inside its outline.
I place mine gently as a friendly greeting,
my high five across millennia.
The “Beginnings” prompt suggested the beginnings of homo sapiens, our long journey on the earth, and the few hints we have of our own species. It brought back a profound experience I had with the few remains of those ancients.
Sharon Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes a poetry critique group and maintains a website, freeprintmusic.com that donates music to small, liberal churches. Her poetry collections, Remains, Seasons, Classifieds, Ghosts, are available via Amazon Books. Her poems are current in Rattle and Red Rose.,
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