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The Painter's Hands

poetry
intermediate
102 words
2 min read
Prep4All Editorial — Original poem · For Year 5–6 · Suitable for CSSE, ISEB, Independent
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My grandmother's hands were maps of work, Their lines were rivers, their knuckles hills; Each fingertip remembered something — A loaf of bread, a child's small ills.

She painted slowly, sat by the window, The brush a finger of her own. Watercolour daffodils opened Where, a moment before, was none.

I keep one painting in my study. The flowers are tilted, soft, and bright. They are not what she meant to paint, perhaps, But they are exactly what she meant to write.

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