[stylist] Memorial Day

[Lynda Lambert via stylist]

Jim,
I am glad you were moved by the connections you have with the topic of a 
"memorial day."  We all have our personal family stories and tragic 
circumstances that are marked by particular days. For my Mother, Christmas 
was always bittersweet and in the celebration of Christmas with our family, 
there was always a sadness in my Mother's heart because her father had died 
on Christmas morning one year when I was a young girl. I remember that day 
when we were opening our Christmas gifts, and my mother received the phone 
call that took away her Christmas forever. In the poem, Memorial Day, I 
connect our family celebration of Memorial Day, each year, with the news of 
the tragic death of my cousin who had just committed suicide. All of the 
characters in the poem are dead now. When I wrote the poem, they were all 
alive and enjoying their annual Memorial Day picnic together.   In the poem, 
though, they live on forever as they meet to celebrate a personal Memorial 
Day, each in her own way. The Sestina was the best way for me to present the 
complexity of the layers of time and the feelings of the women. It bave me 
the "space" I needed to present this moment. Lynda


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Homme, James via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
To: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>; "Writer's Division Mailing 
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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Memorial Day


> Hi Linda,
> Thank you for writing this poem. It triggered a lot of memories and 
> feelings for me, many of all kinds of emotions. I don't want to type long 
> enough in this message to sort them all out, but it is going to be good 
> for my journaling to see if I can capture them.
>
> Jim
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