<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420293" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wood Handled Shovel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I take its smooth wood in my hands<br>to turn the earth as spring returns.<br>I make straight furrows in my garden<br>Like those before me worked the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was Dad's shovel years ago<br>And in my father's callused hands<br>it coaxed our plot to yield us fruit<br>as good as any farmer's stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outside of faded photographs<br>So few of father's things remain<br>His house torn down, his stuff dispersed.<br>his kingdom shrunken to a grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all the things that I possess<br>this little shovel made of wood<br>is my link to Him I loved<br>and to a time when life was good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">J.M.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420293" data-title="The Wood Handled Shovel de John F. McCullagh" data-description="I take its smooth wood in my hands to turn the earth as spring returns. I make straight furrows in my garden Like those before me worked the land. This was Dad's shovel years ago And in my father's callused hands it coaxed our plot to yield us fr..."></div> </div> </div>

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