[stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague

Fri May 25 00:38:16 UTC 2012

Yes, if you ever have a chance to visit Prague, it is absolutely wonderful. 
I visited there every summer for 12 years as part of my European studies 
program abroad.
I visited many small villages - they are so magical.  My father was in 
Paton's troops in WWII, and I have a photo album of him in Czechoslovokia at 
that time. He loved it there and he looks so happy in the old photos. He is 
wearing his military uniform and he is pictured with many of the women and 
girls, and dogs.  I treasure those photos. My fravorite poet lived in Prague 
and I visited his home every summer, a pilgrimage.  Rilke.  As I read his 
poems, I can see him there in my mind, in all those streets. Also, Kafka, is 
a favorite and I have visited his little house near the castle many times, 
too.  It is a land of poetry and art. I have many things in my home that I 
brought back from my trips there.

Yes, I hope your teacher will move that project to the front burner and do 
it soon. It could be a fantastic book.
What a lucky lady you are to study with her! I miss that so much.  There is 
nothing more wonderful than to have a group of poetry loving friends and to 
get together just to speak poetry with each other.

Lynda

Lynda Lambert
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117

724 758 4979

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacqueline Williams" <jackieleepoet at cox.net>
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> Lynda,
> My poetry teacher, Pauline Mounsey, editor of The Lucid Stone, has a
> collection of post cards that her mother sent her throughout a life time 
> of
> travel and also of her time on the Nebraska farm when Pauline was gone. 
> She
> also kept all of Pauline's postcards that Pauline sent. Each was a poet.
> Though her mother has died, her live lives on in this series of postcards
> all written as poems.
> The scrapbook that holds them all with the responses from both is
> magnificent. We have encouraged Pauline to publish them in a book, so far
> she has been too busy helping all of us, and continuing her writing.
> Your series really gave me a sense of what Prague must be like. With all 
> of
> our family's travels, we never got near that part of the world, so it is
> fascinating to have this world expanded.
> Jackie
>
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> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:58 AM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague
>
> Thanks so much Atty! I appreciate your comments so much. those 7 minutes -
> I wrote this in 1999 and revised it a little bit today. I saw some things
> that I wanted to tweak a little bit.  The poem is never really finished, 
> it
> lives on and is always open to change - just like a good work of art.
>
> I long to get this kind of post card from someone some day. Something that
> really means something. These days, we don't even get post cards - instead
> we get e-mails...YUK...how impersonal and tiring they are when people send
> them to us when they are traveling. I like the old fashioned heft of the
> card in my hand, and the hand writted words of a card or letter.
>
> Lynda
> Lynda Lambert
> 104 River Road
> Ellwood City, PA 16117
>
> 724 758 4979
>
> My Blog:  http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com
> My Website:  http://lyndalambert.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "The Crowd" <the_crowd at cox.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] R: Post Cards from Prague
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>
>> Hi Linda,
>>
>> I promise, no tackie jokes!
>>
>> I loved these post cards. Hard to pick my favorite, though those 7 
>> minutes
>
>> touched something inside me that I could not explain.
>>
>> Atty
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net>
>> To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:06 AM
>> 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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