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My Callous Hands has been selected for publication @ Triond.com

My Callous Hands
Has been selected for publication @ Triond.com

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                  by
Sinbad the Sailor Man
— Sinbadthesailorman, Nov 23, 2009

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About the Author

Region, Country: U.S. A. Indiana, Valparaiso, USA

Favorite Poets: Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carl Sandburg these I have read some And so Many More. I have no Favorite or any that I dislike. Whom I consider to be poets; of course there are many Dark and hateful souls, who would cry out and to I will lend an ear, but some. They just leave a awful taste in my heart that I can not bear to read twice. Let alone as many times I would do normally; as I must.

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Critiques

weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

Donnie, this is beautiful,

I don't know how it got overlooked in the stream. Yes I do. So many poets are egocentric arseholes and want to get without giving more than their "divine" verse. It needs work of course. The extended mataphor of the calloused hands works brilliantly, It does need some editing, sparser would make it stronger in my opinion. one minor typo/grammar thing my heart willingly rest my heart willingly rests finally, although I love the piece, you know I am an opinionated old SOB and have to say I don't like the ending. God is seldom directly interventionist. Save yourself. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

Thank you dear bard for the read and the comments

I strive to leave My master out, and yet I can not; for he never leaves my side or my heart unless I ask; And as of late i am not man enough to be alone any more. I will try and dig up some early work but even now as I read them I find he was there quietly waiting for me to come full circle and every time I near this connection I find myself still breaking it Donnie/ Sinbad
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

Even I acknowledge

there are sometimes only one set of footprints in the sand Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

Amen to that Jess

I had often thought they ( the footprints ) were only mine, but now I see they were My Lords. I wish I had the fore sight to read and search out the Bible as when I was a young man in Christ (child like) I was given much info that was wrong and as I went deeper and futher into my search I placed too much to fast and I did it alone as I often do I broke the camels back, over loaded my minds ability to concieve. I was lead to believe there was no posible way this crap could be true. I even peeled the cover off of my Bible because it said the *Holy* Bible.I had no faith in man, but yet I forgot my faith in God too. I now beleive it (The Bible) to be true for the first time in my life. I beleive it to be Holy. The word is the Bible, the word was made flesh, and the word is eternal everlasting from the begining to the begining. As a Man I turn to Sience and many diferent religous Dogma's, but One must believe with the belief of a child. One must need as a child, one must be feed milk before he can digest meat. I still after all this time am not winged from the milk, although I do eat meat from time to time. Only I perfer the milk for much damage was done early I've still alot of damage control still to undo.Donnie/ Sinbad
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magics02

16 years 5 months ago

Sailor

I just read this poem and somehow it made me think of my Father. You know I love the ships and I know about the calloused hands and therefore I send you my healing today of love and peace and here my heart will rest also. Great write and thank you sailorman. xoxoxomagics02
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

Thank you Magic

These holiday's and this time of year do quite the reverse on my mind as I so loved them when I was younger and bolder every one I know has seemed to change but I must face the reality of life things change if only I could change as quickly as they do did Sinbad/Donnie
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magics02

15 years 11 months ago

Great News Donnie

Happy to hear it I read it and did you put it on here to stream. Congrats and I will catch up to your works real soon. Happy 4th Love at ya guy Mona