PALMISTRY

The future lies in the palm of your hand
Follow its lines to the promise land
These are the words the fortunetellers use
A profitable entertainment they hope to amuse
Left hand the future right hand the past
And the knowledge they hold is truly vast
A bracelet of diamond shape lines around the wrist
A show that one's intelligence does exist
Then up from the wrist encircling the thumb
The line on which your life is strung
Between thumb and index life's line ends at its start
Emotional information from this the line of heart
Opposite line deals with health and stress
Under the ring finger is the line of success
There are love and worry lines all to help predict
The forces in your life that will conflict
Only the believable fact will the seer state
Anything more would be tempting fate
Bear

Author's Note

I leave most punctuation to the reader that they can read the poem in their own meter, mood and motility. I thank you for taking the time to read my work.

Reviews

[Zoya]

Hmm...contains a lot of information about palmistry. Unfortunately, most of the palm readers around the world I believe mislead us. That makes palmistry, which could well be an interesting subject to ponder about, lose its substance. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you for sharing!

[Bear]

I studied parapsychology and continue to be a student. We took photograph of our hands every day for a month, we also went to a care-home an took photos of the hands of the elderly patients. On the line of health we found the same line pattern on everyone who had heart problems we also found a different line patterns with lung problems. Two people who passed away while we were doing our experimenting and the day before each passed all the lines on their hands faded away. I have been reading palms for my own studies for 40 years, I also read the tarot but my grandmother gave me my deck. She was half Blackfeet Indian and half Hungarian Gypsy and it was she who named me, she said I would grow to be a bear of a man and at 6 foot 5 inches and 375 pounds I would say she was right, wouldn't you :~)

[Zoya]

Woah, she certainly was right.

[Indra Neil]

very well written! wonderful blend of sarcasm and info about the lines!! reminds me of my short poem -
He was running for fortune
along the lines of his palm;
Every line was a dead-end.

He swam steadily in river
of sweat of his brow, then
reached the sea of fortune.

[Bear]

I like that, "Every line was a dead-end" now that is a profound statement and very witty "The sweat of his brow, then reached the sea of fortune" so the moral of the story is that it took the sweat of his toils to lead him to success. Bravo! and thank you for both your kind words and the poem :~)

[Indra Neil]

Thank u! and I like poems with tinge of humor / sarcasm / wit with embedded positive messages. yours is an excellent fit into that category! the last two lines are a highlight!!