[stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague

[Barbara Hammel]

This is the thing I shoot for each time a birthday of someone comes around. 
On facebook I don't get too creative, but if I'm going to send a card, I'd 
rather wtrite the poem inside myself.
Some of those are so beautiful.
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:06 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague

I was thinking today about the beginning of the summer, and the traveling 
season we are now into for the next few months. Travel has always been a 
central part of my own life and it still remains so even though I now have 
sight loss issues. I find that I love to travel as much as I ever did, and I 
enjoy where I am in the same way as before.


I have attached a poem I wrote in Prague a few years ago. I was there every 
summer for many years. I taught in Europe in the summer time and took 
students there to study on-location in Italy, Germany, Austria, and Czech 
Republic.  Our Course was "Drawing and Writing in Salzburg." We lived in  a 
small village in the Alps in Austria and had classes there every morning. We 
took long weekends to other countries together.
The students traveled with me for a month of studies each summer in July.

This poem was composed as we traevled in Prague and in the form of 
individual post cards to be sent from there.  I imagined sending out 
creative post cards instead of the typical ones that really say nothing at 
all about the place or the person's internal dialogue with the place.

I thought, wouldn't it be refreshing to get a REAL post card from Prague? 
this motivated me to begin writing the post cards you see here.

Is travel a theme in any of your work?
I find that travel is really central to mine, even if it is a metaphorical 
journey.

This poem was published in my book, "Concerti:  Psalms for the Journey."

Available through www.amazon.com


Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com











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