Fingerprints look like ripples
becuase time keeps dropping
another stone into our palm
2007-03-27 12:45:18 · 4 answers · asked by Kelly P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
A finger print is "who you are" no two finger prints are the same. Events in your life shape who you become, forms the "fingerprint" of your life. While your finger print never changes, who you are changes continuously. You are constantly becoming yourself until you cease to exist, at which time you are the "final product" of yourself.
2007-03-27 12:59:44 · answer #1 · answered by psycle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The overall meaning of the poem is contained in the metaphor of the hand equalling a pool of water. When time drops a stone into our palm, the ripples show up as fingerprints.
It's not a very good metaphor, because we're born with fingerprints and they don't change over time, or come and go, the way ripples on a pond do. That might be the reason you had to ask about the overall meaning.
2007-03-27 19:51:32 · answer #2 · answered by deablanca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever skipped a stone on a pond? Imagine your life being made up of experiences that hit time, again and again, as they hop along.
2007-03-27 19:50:39 · answer #3 · answered by laurel g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
missing is the idea of accumulated weight of time. The weight of experience displaces the innocence with which we are born.
2007-03-28 00:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by Duncan w ™ ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋