A Wide-Eyed Child

a wide-eyed child leaps into a woman’s arms – a butterfly lands By Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen Copyright January 20, 2014 Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: Beauty Sponsored by Shadow Hamilton

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/21/2014 6:52:00 PM

this is SO CUTE!!! gosh, didn't you get it entered in time? And if not, how the heck did it not place??? (hmmm, I just thought of something. you were supposed to put beauty in the title!!)

Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Date: 1/22/2014 7:34:00 AM

Maybe that's it. PLUS...I added the word lands after the contest. That could be why I didn't place. I thought of it in the middle of the night, too....and didn't get up to correct it in time. LOL Thanks for letting me know, though, that you like it. That means a lot! Big Smiles, Dane Ann