The Poet's Touch

Winter is in the air.
I stoke sleepy embers beneath fire logs,
and cinnamon bread browns in the oven.
Thick warm air cloaks the room.
Pungent spice scents
seep into beadboard walls
permeating my home with love.

In a deep forest chapel
Ancient Latin chants resonate
in concert with the hour-bell chime.
The devotional prays to Le Beau Dieu –   
The Beautiful God.
Verily, it is a song of love.

Intermittent rain becomes snow
and I know
Cousin Paul will take me for a sleigh ride –
an annual ritual
wrapped in family love.

I paint a traditional Holiday scene.
In silence, a montage of memories
  glides across the canvas
    rekindling the past -
Souvenirs frozen in time.
Holiday Vignettes
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Poem and Photo of original painting  © 2011 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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God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December. — James B. Barrie