[stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).

[Lynda Lambert]

I should correct what I said, after I thought about it. In northern CA, 
where I lived in Silicone Valley, winter is the green month. The golden 
dryness comes with spring. But, in my mind, as I read your poem the term 
"brown" really reflected my mood when I remembered living there. When 
"winter" finally arrived, I longed for the tension and anticipation that 
comes with stark and frigid landscapes.  Here, in PA, you constantly hear 
everyone complaining about winter and how they hate it and cannot wait for 
spring to come. And, I always think, why in the world do you continue to 
live in this place when you hate it 5 months out of the year?  I love four 
distinct seasons in the year, and the changes that the each bring to the 
landscape and to the inner landscape of the human experience.



Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Myrna Badgerow" <kajuncutie926 at aol.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).


> Shawn I too loved it. Here in Louisiana it's pretty much what we have too.
>
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> On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:06 PM, "Lynda Lambert" <llambert at zoominternet.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Shawn, I loved your poem!
>> Winter is my favorite season, and the short 2 years when I lived in 
>> California was as you described here - a brown landscape with cooler 
>> weather but winter never really comes (as I know it to be, with snow and 
>> crystal landscape.)  November comes, it is true - and then November 
>> continues until summer comes again.  Here on the east coast November is 
>> just the beginning of our winter and it is full of the promise of what is 
>> coming after November has left us.
>>
>> Life without winter, for me, was not a life I wanted to live.  I longed 
>> for the harshness and extreme beauty of an east coast winter.
>>
>> I like the way you moved from the song lyrics into your reverie here.
>> Lynda
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "vejas" <brlsurfer at gmail.com>
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>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).
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>>
>>> Shawn,
>>> I liked your poem about missing the snow.
>>> I recognized the song, it was "California Dream-in" by the Mamas and the 
>>> Papas.
>>> For these whose favorite season is winter, November must be a depressing 
>>> time.
>>> Vejas
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
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>>> Date sent: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:55:06 -0500
>>> Subject: [stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).
>>>
>>> OK.  I'll try it.  I think you should be able to guess the song that the 
>>> first line comes from.
>>>
>>> All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray
>>> but I see no snowy white.
>>> This cold ground chills but does not warm
>>> with snow's Christmas invoking sight.
>>> This snowless winter I wish would be gone.
>>> It seems November caries on and on.
>>> Does winter want to claim the land or not?
>>> These snowy days of yore I've almost forgot.
>>> This dithering weather leaves me with a frown.
>>> Be snowy or be gone oh' winter brown.
>>>
>>> Shawn Jacobson
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