I \u00a0hope you like the poem.
\nI \u00a0hope you pause at least 3 times today to taste some of the wonder in your life.
\nThe child in the picture lives in Jordan, \u00a0so too the radishes.<\/p>\n
Have a good day.<\/p>\n
john sj<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s Post<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cRadishes\u201d<\/p>\n
Pull up some radishes for dinner,
\n<\/i>my mother said.
\nThey grow next to the house under your bedroom window.<\/i><\/p>\n
Afraid I\u2019d pull up something other than a radish
\nI gathered a sister, a brother
\nand we knelt in the dirt
\nunder the screened window<\/p>\n
looking<\/p>\n
at what we thought
\nto be a radish.<\/p>\n
Its leaves so new \u00a0 so green
\nour hands \u00a0so hesitant \u00a0so unsure<\/p>\n
we reached and pulled<\/p>\n
earth clung
\nto our fingers
\nto the fleshy roots
\nquivering in the sun<\/p>\n
we pulled up radish after radish
\nhanding them
\na bouquet
\nto our mother.<\/p>\n
She no longer cares for radishes.
\nMy sister, brother and I tend our own gardens.<\/p>\n
But I wish everyday
\nto kneel again
\nunder that window<\/p>\n
to feel new and green
\nhesitant and unsure.<\/p>\n
“Radishes” by Susan B. Auld, from\u00a02011 Poetry Challenge\u00a0<\/i>(editor unknown). \u00a9\u00a0Highland Park Poetry<\/b><\/a>, 2011.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Art credit:<\/i>\u00a0“Would you like a radish?”, photograph by Jenny at\u00a0A Taste of Travel<\/b><\/a>, part of a\u00a0series<\/b><\/a>\u00a0entitled “The Children of Jordan’s Al-Amir Village”\u00a0(originally color).<\/i><\/p>\n Monday August 11 “Cloudy skies this morning followed by thunderstorms during the afternoon. High around 75F. Winds ESE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%.” \u00a0\u00a0So Weather.com tells me at 7:35 am. \u00a07:35 reminds me that I am … Continue reading ![\"Radishes\"](\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/08\/Radishes.jpg\")
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