Adolescence
Five tomatoes ripening
on my window ledge
four are green and hard and small
the fifth is on the edge
of young tomato adulthood
large, red-green and blushing
cast out from every unripe vine
of gossiping–and wishing.
© 2007 by Violet Nesdoly (First published in Family Reunion)
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“Adolescence” is my contribution to the Red challenge at The High Calling. Read about it here.
Violet Nesdoly 
Wow! I love the “blushing” and the “cast out.” 🙂
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Thanks, Monica!
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Came over from Tweetspeak Poetry. Your poem makes me think of my teens–13 and 15.
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Thanks, Megan. Yep, you got my point.
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