[stylist] April and a Poem Submission

Mon Apr 2 16:42:22 UTC 2012

Wow!  You love to write sestinas?  You were not here yet when I first 
struggled to write one a couple of years ago.  Since I'm a rhymer at heart, 
I don't think any of my sestinas are good but I've enjoyed experimenting 
with them and learning that I can do them.  Now I'll have to try a pantoum. 
I've written a few villanelles, too but I think those are worse than 
sestinas to write.
Somewhere in my poems I have one that would be considered a poor attempt at 
a pantoum, but I didn't know of that kind at the time and was just creating 
my own structure.
Barbara

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:01 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] April and a Poem Submission

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
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> April is  National Poetry Month!
> April brings fresh new  experiences and inspirations for our writing.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> April is National Poetry Month.
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> Is there anything you will be doing to celebrate this month?
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> 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.
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> Lynda
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> My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com
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