Tuesday, April 1, 2014


WATER, RIGHT 
BELOW YOUR FEET

Poem for April 1, 2014



LIFTING THE HAGAR HEEL

Dying for water,
Hagar went racing
back and forth in the valley
but forgot to look
in the obvious places first

What she needed most
was right there all along,
under the heel of her foot
All it took was a nudge
from an angel's wing

Little self, panting the world,

take a hint.
Lift your heel,

look! - find your own
long-buried Zamzam spring.



(c) Mohja Kahf
page 84,
Language for
a New Century,
Contemporary Poetry
fomr the Middle East,
Asia, and Beyond

Hagar Text: Read
Genesis 21: 1-21

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