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Swing, Sweet Child

Swing, sweet child
   Kick your legs high
Swing, sweet child
   Reach for the sky

The swing's your pendulum
   Gather momentum
The world's your proscenium
   Elicit oohs and aahs from the plenum 

Pull hard, sweet child, with all of your might
   Extend your reach upward to maximum height
 Rock the frame of the swing-set till the dusk of twilight
   Your silhouette framed against newborn starlight

Your wondrous display of finesses linked with brawn
   Has all those assembled cheering you on
As you soar over sandbox and adjacent green lawn  
   In your best party dress of pink lace chiffon ...

Swing, sweet child  
   Kick your legs high
Swing, sweet child
   Reach for the sky

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Kim Rodrigues

Date: 12/4/2021 12:54:00 PM

Brings us back to childhood! I still love to swing with the grands.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 12/7/2021 6:56:00 AM

And I was so careful how I used swing. I almost left it at “I still love to swing.” LOL!!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/4/2021 5:20:00 PM

I enjoy it too, pushing them, that is. I leave the swinging to my wife. Now how does that sound? -- a little bit 'off,' I imagine... lol. :) gw

Line Gauthier

Date: 11/12/2018 5:32:00 PM

Lovely, Gershon. Love your poem. Congrats on your well deserved top win.

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 11/12/2018 4:46:00 PM

I haven't been on a swing in too long - this brought back that feeling of being about to touch the sky - and love the phrase 'newborn starlight'!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/12/2018 10:23:00 PM

Nothing like it, is there? And such a simple device, the swing, that brings us such pleasure and send us soaring. Thank you, as always, Michelle, for viewing and commenting. Appreciated. :) gw