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

[David R. Stayer]

"This is David Lori's other half. Hopefully I am close to being her 
equal. We  both thank you for giving permission to read your poem. I am 
the blind person in our beautiful marriage.

On 5/16/2012 11:58 AM, KajunCutie926 at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original  Message-----
> 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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David R. Stayer, LCSW-R