[stylist] A poem and reply to Lynda's last message...

[loristay at aol.com]

Myrna, I love your poem.  Too bad you aren't local.  We are having a poetry reading during our "Friends of the Library Coffee house" on June 6th, in the afternoon (4-8).  We're in Merrick, on Long Island, and all poets are welcome.  We had the former poet laureate of Nassau last year.
However, your poem was head and shoulders above anything I remember hearing from him.
Lori Stayer


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From: KajunCutie926 <KajunCutie926 at aol.com>
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Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 11:36 am
Subject: [stylist] A poem and reply to Lynda's last message...


Lynda, again your note touched me, and I so  agree.  When I wrote the 
pieces for Sparrow, I did so at the behest  of a sighted friend who kept telling 

me that I had so much to say but he wanted  to hear it the way I see it.  So 
began my journey of words but also a  journey of reflection and 
introspection, a journey into my own thoughts about my  blindness.  The writing 
became 
more of a gift to me than anything I can  offer anyone else.  Here is one of 
the pieces from the book and I believe  you will see the message I tried to 
convey, and if you notice the particular way  it is written this is a nonce 
form I developed a few years ago and love writing  in the style. (If anyone 
needs it attached please let me  know.)
 
Myrna
 
Interpretations
 
I color my world with whispers of spring,
scent of  new leaves, taste of April rain,
and warmth touching skin after  winter's
 
chilled keeping, shading it in hues
of comfortable  silence and warbling song,
splashing sips of watercolor  gladness
 
across its aging canvas before dipping
brush into  contentment's fragrance,
dripping it onto imagination's palette,  and  I
 
wonder sometimes if strokes in richer
values of  unseen sky and earth bleeding
into twilight would be a more vivid  interpretation
 
of wind and trees, sun and moon, clouds
and stars.  I think perhaps it would be all this,
more beautiful, more interesting and  colorful,
 
but what it would not be is my truth, my
vision, or  honesty of the world as I see it
even if I could paint it  differently.
 
© mdbadgerow  2009
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