The Poet's Touch |
| With nose pressed against the window pane little Mason marvels at the Ozark woodlands tossing in a summer rainstorm. Too soon, soft pines creak and groan. The toddler points to his swing beneath the fallen oak and cries soft tears. When the wind has blown itself away the two year old beckons. Father and son stroll side by side to the bend in the road. There, in a maze of pungent evergreen boughs rests Mason's little red swing seat entwined with the trusty hemp rope ...................... waiting. "A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul ... " —Proverbs 13:19a |
| 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. |
| The Swing by Rita Goodgame |
Copyright © 2009 Rita Goodgame. All rights reserved.
Photo Copyright © 2009 Rick Jones. All rights reserved.