What Child Is This
What child is this?
Stepping down to a semi dark tavern
with an empty bottle at the age of five
to be filled with ruby red wine,
fascinated by farmers sitting
at a rustic table, darkened by time
laughing and eating through
thick mustaches, perfect teeth,
smelling of garlic and wine?
Sitting in a bus and being startled
by a woman gone berserk
on hearing little traveler was alone
on her way to visit grandma
on the Trevico mountain.
Little did she know smarty was a regular!
And the locked farm gate, little spider climbed
and opened from inside?
What child is this? A much loved child
by a lioness mother and a father who,
when teacher said she couldn’t handle English,
he answered: “She can do anything!”
First Place: L Milton Hankins-Story From Your Childhood-12/10/20
Second Place: Craig Cornish-What child Is This-10/18/17
Copyright © Frances Schiavina | Year Posted 2017
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