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

[Andi]

Myrna
I adore this poem I am sorry I am lacking the words to express why I love
it, but it is so eloquent and beautiful.

Andi

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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.
 
C mdbadgerow  2009
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