As a child, the author spent many summers on her grandparent's farm in rural Oklahoma. These memorable times inspired this work which received an Editor's Choice award with the International Library of Poetry.
Along a winding, gravel road
through woods of Spanish Oak
The Scissor Tails and Mockingbirds
gave song as morning broke.
Red dirt that padded my bare feet
in the front yard where I played.
The warmer breeze of summer days
gave way to evening shade.
Hand-cranked ice cream on the porch,
Cool baths in a washtub,
The snug soft bed of goose down,
embraced me like a glove.
A soft and distant hammer
of an oil well's rise and fall,
with the song of peaceful slumber,
came tomorrow's new enthrall.
Now and then I go there...
I stroll down memory lane.
Where an old iron gate and memories,
are all that now remain.
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Reviews of "Soft Echos of Childhood"
Reviewed by Dan Summerfield (Reader)
Reviewed on January 24, 2004
Some unique observations and imagery here. Very nicely done.
WHISPERS OF THE HEART is artist and author J. Allen Wilson's second book of poetry.It can be autographed and shipped within 48 hours of order. NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo
Dan S.
~Chrissie