[stylist] Poem for Nebraska friends

[Lynda Lambert]

Shawn,

Well....It just so happens that I also drove through IOWA and Wyoming on 
that car trip - and wrote poems going through them, too.  I was "on a roll" 
as they say! lol  Traveling and writing all along the way.

That time, in September 1991,  was my only visit ever to the midwest - I had 
flown to the West Coast,  and Texas before that - so never saw the country 
beyond Chicago. I would love to see it all again, when I could really enjoy 
it and stay there longer - I did eventually return to Arizona and Colorado 
for extended business-related trips on a couple of occasions, a couple of 
years after that - but flew there, again missing everything that came 
in-between Pennsylvania  and those places.

Going through my writing archives is really fun for me - I am traveling in 
those places all over again in my mind.


Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
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Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem for Nebraska friends


> Linda
>
> Actually, I did like the poem.  Being from Iowa, I think I am rather jaded 
> when it comes to wide open spaces; we have a lot of that where I come 
> from.  Now living on the east coast, I see how different the country is, 
> how wooded and closed in.
>
> When I was growing up, Nebraska was this big brown wasteland you drove 
> through to get to Colorado.  Going through Nebraska as a child, I didn't 
> think of the history, the pioneers, the buffalo, and I didn't see any 
> eagles.  However, I can see where you would have a different perspective.
>
> Once more, I found that a nice easy reading poem.
>
> Shawn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda 
> Lambert
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem for Nebraska friends
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> thanks, Myrna, this was my one and only time in Nebraska. I am an east 
> coast girl - my ancestors settled here from the old world and some married 
> indians - so I am firmly planted here.  Going through Nebraska was a big 
> adventure for me and I had to write about the details of what I was 
> experiencing. I loved it - the expansiveness of it was something I had 
> never known before.
> Lynda Lambert
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <KajunCutie926 at aol.com>
> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem for Nebraska friends
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>
>> Lynda, I love this!  I was there right beside you on your  travels.  I 
>> was
>> reminded of the first time I visited the Midwest and my  late husband's
>> family.  It was so different from my bayou country.   You brought me back
>> there
>> in many ways... Thank you!
>> Myrna
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/25/2013 11:41:45 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> llambert at zoominternet.net writes:
>>
>> Attached  is "Nebraska" a poem.
>> I wrote this poem as I traveled by car across  Nebraska on my way to
>> Silicone Valley, California - in 1991.
>> I found it as  I am sifting through my poetry archives. I did a bit of
>> tweaking to tighten it  up today - thus the copyright change from 1999 to
>> 2013.
>>
>> As we traveled  my husband was driving and as we crossed over one state
>> after another, I was  jotting down imagery and notes that later were
>> crafted
>> into  poems.
>>
>>
>> Lynda
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