[stylist] For Lori Re: A poem and reply to Lynda's last message...

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

No, I wouldn't be able to be there.  For one  thing, Myrna DOES NOT fly.  I 
discovered on a flight to and from  San Diego some years ago.  I told my 
family they had to know  how much I loved them because that I got on that jet 
to return home to them took  more out of me than they could ever know. LOL 
But if it allowed and you would  want to please feel free to read this there. 
I give you my permission.  It  is one of my own personal favorites and I 
just think it speaks to all of us as  writers in general but, of course, in 
this piece there is the added perspective  of a blind writer.  Thank you Lori 
so much for the very kind words.. they  are more appreciated than I could 
ever express.
Myrna
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2012 10:50:12 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
loristay at aol.com writes:

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>
To:  stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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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