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Usually on this weekly photo prompt I post a photo from nature. But this week I wanted to try something new. Abstract art by my grandson, Leo. He loves doing art, especially painting. His parents are proud of his work and place it in a gallery on the kitchen wall. Obviously Leo’s daycare teachers have an amazing amount of patience and skill to get this art piece. Is it possible to recognize someone by their handprint?
While I was visiting on Sunday, Leo had a tumble and scraped his finger. We continued our walk to the park, but I noticed he was shaking his hand. He said, “Burns.” I offered to take him back home and clean it up. On the way, he said, “Don’t cry Leo.” I told him crying was OK when he was hurt.
We washed the boo boo, but he did not want a band-aid. On FaceTime Monday, he said, “Mamere, finger better.”
This image may take you to a child you know, a memory of hand print art, or to the idea of spring and rainbows, health and healing. Follow the muse wherever it goes. Leave a small poem in the comments (or a link to your blog post). We appreciate encouraging responses to other writers.
Familiar fingers
Margaret Simon, draft
reach for the sky
touch a cloud
release a rainbow.
Reflections on the Teche 
Margaret, regretfully – or maybe necessarily – I took a bit of a break from blogging so I have a lot of (what appears to be long overdue) questions about your poetry project. I have tried to find a link to where it began, but didn’t manage in the time of my visit. I’ll be trying to figure it out. In the meantime, here is my attempt at your image:
Gentle laughter.
Warm hugs.
New steps.
How did I not know
these small hands
would be the pot-of-gold
at the end of this
colorful rainbow?
Hey Cathy, I’ve missed you. I started this when Laura Purdie Salas decided to stop her 15 words or less prompts. I borrowed the idea and changed the name. At first it was Thursday. I’ve moved it to Wednesday. If you sign up to get my blog by email you can get it every week. Hope all is well with you!
A “pot-of-gold” image is perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!
Cathy, I agree with Rose and sweet imagery. Love this.
I love the pot of gold, too!
Oh yes, it’s OK to cry when you are hurt – such an important lesson for us all…and the image…well we just might do that today at Meme School. Thanks!
Please share any poems your students write!
“Don’t cry, Leo,”
he tells himself
sternly.
But you can’t
have
a rainbow
without
rain.
Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Love how you connected our conversation to the image. Thanks for coming by.
A rainbow after tears brings comfort. Lovely.
Ruth, I love how you used Leo’s voice. Sweet poem.
So sweet. Thank you, Margaret.
Handprints three
What do you see?
A rainbow of love
Reaching out to me.
Rose, I love the sweet rhyme. Thanks for writing today.
Rose, what a sweet rhyme. I love it.
This reminds me of “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?” Kids would love this!
Leo LeBlanc is most certainly an artist’s name…
On the day of good-byes
my interning first graders
with glowing eyes
presented me with
a tote bearing
the images of
their handprints.
A living rainbow
printed on my heart
and carried
forever.
A tote bag of rainbow hands. Makes me want to order one with this image on it.
Ohhh, you should! I still have that tote.
Fran, I also was fortunate to receive a tote of painted first grade handprints. How I loved that bag. Your metaphor “A living rainbow/printed on my heart/and carried/forever.” perfectly describes the feeling I felt receiving the tote from my first group of first graders. A sweet memory and poem.
Amazing that we both got this very precious gift! Thank you, Gail.
I thought that about Leo’s name too! That’s a treasure you received!
What a perfect gift, a true living rainbow!
oh, look at those little hands—so cute! What a fun time with paint you must have had.
Red is a hello kiss
Orange is to squeeze
Yellow as a bumblebee
Green grass — green trees
Blue is sky in your eye
Violet my hand waves goodbye
Linda, clever poem using each color for a image and with rhyme. Sweet.
This could go in Ladybug!
Love!
your precious fingers
paint
my heart
with rainbows
I love this personification. Precious poem.
This! Yes!
Margaret, I love Leo’s sweet rainbow fingers. Thank you for including your conversation with him. Boo boo is the best word. “Mamere, finger better,” is adorable. Your poem is sweet and has beautiful imagery. Leo’s art work immediately took me to my two daughter’s handprints in artwork before Christmas when they were two and four.
small green handprints
form a wreath
circle of life
Gail Aldous 3/2021
Thank you for sharing Leo’s artwork.
Sweet connection of grandson to grandmother. I love the wreath image.
Thank you, Linda.
I remember doing hand print wreaths. Love the connection.
Thank you, Margaret.
I am thinking how wreaths are evergreen, Gail, such a metaphor for little hands in the circle of life. A sacred image.
Thank you, Fran.
I didn’t realize you’d switched to Wednesdays, Margaret. I’m missing the daily Feb Proj prompts so I came here for one:
right hand right hand right hand
foreground background playground
feathers fingers candle-cakes
saturated glittered
transparent repeated
permanent pressed erupting
I’m glad you came by, Heidi. I love the repetition and word play ending in a permanent pressed erupting.
I forgot to say that I love “releasing a rainbow”!