[stylist] April and a Poem Submission
Lynda Lambert
llambert at zoominternet.net
Mon Apr 2 15:34:07 UTC 2012
Thanks for your comments, Myna.
Ah, the Sestina! I am crazy about the sestina. You get to take a journey
into uncharted waters, just begin the Sestina. It just takes me by the nand
as I begin working on it, and it takes me to places I could never have
imagined in my wildest dreams. It is such an exciting adventrue to write the
Sestina.
I get that same RUSH when I write the Pantoum and Villanel, too, but to a
much higher level of mountain climbing with the Sestina. It stays with me
day and night, when I am working on one, and when it is finished I feel like
I am on the tip top of the Untersberg in my Alpine village in Austria,
looking down as eagles fly beneath the peak. haha
Lynda
Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117
724 758 4979
My Blog: http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
My Website: http://lyndalambert.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <KajunCutie926 at aol.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] April and a Poem Submission
> Hi Lynda... great piece and as a writer of structured poetry myself at
> times I recognized the Pantoum, not one of my favorite forms to use, but
> when
> done well it is one of the most beautiful forms. The Sestina! Someone
> told me once that I should at least to try to write ONE Sestina in my
> poetic
> life and I wondered why only one--until I wrote that ONE. I love the
> form
> really and have written several but does it ever tax my brain cells.
> Anyway, I just wanted to say a great job.. well done!
>
> Myrna
>
>
> In a message dated 4/2/2012 10:03:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> llambert at zoominternet.net writes:
>
> thanks for asking, Barbara.
> It is a Pantoum form, originating in Malasia.
> It is written in quatrains - they are repeating throughout the poem which
> gives it the structure of a weaving and brings movement and life to
> the
>
> poem.
>
> Many of my poems are written in Pantoum, Villanel, and Sestina. the
> Sestina
> is my favorite form, and I write many of them. Otherwise, my poetry is in
> post-modern configurations requiring the reader to create as they read.
> Because of the structure of post modern works, the reader has decisions
> to
> make continually while reading the poem. The reader becomes part of the
> creative process - the poem is not complete without the reader's
> participation, and no two readers will make the same decisions while
> reading
> so the poem is ever changing each time it is performed or read. But, even
> when I am writing in a particular form - there are always post modern
> references throughout the text that continually bring the reader back to
> the
> exact moment of the writing itself - always references to the ACT of
> writing, while writing. You can find those things in the poem as well,
> even
> though it is a Pantoum. The poem, for me, is a weaving on numerous levels
> simultaneously.
> Writing is first of all a physical ACT, a movement of the body, mind, and
> spirit all working in tandum.
>
> Hope this helps as you read it - like looking at a painting, the colors
> and
> strokes all done in layers upon layers.
>
>
> Lynda Lambert
> 104 River Road
> Ellwood City, PA 16117
>
> 724 758 4979
>
> My Blog: http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website: http://lyndalambert.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 10:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] April and a Poem Submission
>
>
>> What type of poem is this? Is it a made-up structure or does it have a
>> name? Tomorrow when the twins are in school, I'm going to hook up my
>> Braille display so I can run my fingers through it and truly absorb it.
>> It's pretty.
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lynda Lambert
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 8:20 AM
>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] April and a Poem Submission
>>
>> Ah, here it comes!
>> It's just around the corner.
>>
>> It is nearly April.
>>
>> I have attached a poem I wrote in 2001 - "In the Storms of April -
>> Plunge"
>> (An excerpt from my book _ Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage_
>> I wrote it in response to a friend who had sent me a poem he wrote.)
>>
>>
>> April is National Poetry Month!
>> April brings fresh new experiences and inspirations for our writing.
>>
>> Poetry is in the spring sunshine and cast shadows of my Zen Meditation
>> Garden this morning.
>>
>> My white cat, Angel, is curled up in a little bed of green leaves, He
>> sleeps there among the thick Periwinkle vines like a bright furry bird
> in
>> his expansive nest.
>>
>> I thought I heard Poetry in the woods, quietly moving about behind the
>> delicate green buds of the thickets today. I walked my eager and hungry
>> dogs early this morning. I paused at the top of the cliff and let the
> dogs
>> sniff it out. They were at full alert. They barked and growled.
> Scratched
>> the rich black earth beneath the limp leaves, the debris of winter that
>> lines the floor of the woods. It had vanished.
>>
>> April is National Poetry Month.
>>
>> Is there anything you will be doing to celebrate this month?
>>
>> For Poetry Month I pledge to spend my early morning hours here in my
>> office. I'll enjoy my cup of Puerto Rican coffee, as I work to capture
>> some of the images from my daily life through poetry. There will be
>> nothing here but the sounds and smells of the early morning hours
> wafting
>> in through the open window. I'll try to capture the flight of fancy
> that
>> fills my fingertips as I type.
>>
>> Lynda
>>
>>
>>
>> My Blog: http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
>> My Website: http://lyndalambert.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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