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

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

Thank you Shawn.  This is one of those poems that  you write and as time 
goes by you realized how meaningful the words really are  to you.  I often say 
this is one of my most autobiographical pieces to  date.
Thank you again.. Myrna
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2012 10:56:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov writes:

Myrna

Lori is right, that was a beautiful  poem.

Shawn

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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.

(c) mdbadgerow   2009
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