[stylist] Poem for a winter's night

[Lynda Lambert]

Thank you for your comments.
I have not written poems since my sight loss journey began on January 1st, 
2007. Simultaneously, that same night, my brother was dying.  The poem, in 
my mind, shows  constellated time through his  reflections on childhood, his 
long illness and finally his  passing.

After this five year lapse I am finally wanting to write poems again.  Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem for a winter's night


> I'm guessing those were hints at an illness and passing away?  It's such a 
> delicate way of saying what's going on.  I really like this poem although 
> the turkeys threw me a bit.
> Barbara
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> Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 5:20 PM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: [stylist] Poem for a winter's night
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> I was looking back through some poems today.
> I found this one. I forgot I had written it. I am sending it out for you 
> to read tonight. I felt like sharing it.
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> Poem: the Final Frost
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> My brother sifts through old photographs
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> Beyond the shadows of a cold April night
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> His fingertips glow like red neon
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> As he holds each one up to the light
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> I watch him laugh
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> From a leather chair
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> We wait patiently between glass walls
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> This night more quiet than  sleeping turkeys
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> Settling onto thin black branches
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> High above the forest floor
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> My brother begins to close his eyes
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> Doesn't want to see the winding trails
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> Of transparent tubes plunged deep into his throat
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> He examines another buried memory
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> The little boy standing beside the weathered fence
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> As winter grasses folded into flattened paths
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> Beneath softly pounding feet
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> He feels the chill of the final frontier
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> When his wife reached out to touch him.
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> Lynda Lambert
> 104 River Road
> Ellwood City, PA 16117
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