The Poet's Touch
Swaddled bundle, warm in my arms,

wise wondering eyes, soft sighs,

who is this living miracle claiming my heart?

Baby breath, quivering blush lips,

innocent babe cradled with lullabies,

dependent upon your new mother

who trembles with joy and knows

she will never ever be the same.



"All God's angels come to us in disguise."
     —Lowell
           First Born
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© 2010 by Rita Goodgame. All rights reserved.
       by Rita Goodgame
Rita Goodgame has won an Arkansas Writer's Grand Conference Literary Award,
prose/poetry first place awards in ByLine Magazine and The National League of
American Pen Women, Pioneer Branch. Her work has also appeared in publications
such as Women's World, Grandmother Earth, Soiree, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,
The Bulletin, International Old Lacers, Inc., and Our Arkansas ... Special Places, '09.
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