[stylist] stylist Digest, Vol 126, Issue 10
myrnaspoetry at yahoo.com
myrnaspoetry at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 10 21:26:24 UTC 2014
Thank you so much!! I am touched by your kind words. I have been legally blind since birth but in the past two years I have lost more vision. I have always a color perception disorder. I see colors and know they are not black or white but often cannot define them so the colors I do remember are held as treasures.
Welcome to the list.
Myrna
> On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:21 PM, EJ Kobek via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, there,
>
> I've been lurking a bit, reading posts, a newcomer...not sure how/when to
> pop in, and I've been wanting to comment on your poem, Myrna...I think it's
> beautiful. I love the image of a vault - for its strength and
> protectiveness of things that matter...the idea of an overflowing vault is
> very sweet. I found myself swaying as I read it, a feeling of being lulled.
> It reminded me of the moment at age twelve when I couldn't quite recall
> what the color tan was like...But I glad to know what Snoopy looked like.
> I still have some vision, but it's broken up....Anyhoo, thank you for the
> sweet and strong gift....
>
> Best,
>
> Helen
>
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>> 1. Re: story questions (Chris Kuell )
>> 2. Re: Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA (myrnaspoetry)
>> 3. Re: Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA (myrnaspoetry)
>> 4. Re: Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA (Barbara Hammel)
>> 5. A great article about Braille for older adults from our
>> newest Stylist member (Applebutter Hill)
>> 6. poetry group opportunity (Barbara Hammel)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 09:30:25 -0400
>> From: "Chris Kuell " <ckuell at comcast.net>
>> To: "'Barbara HAMMEL'" <poetlori8 at msn.com>, "'Writer's Division
>> Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] story questions
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>> Hi Barbara,
>>
>> I think Donna gave an excellent answer to your question, plus some good
>> strategy thoughts. I've read about authors who come up with an idea, or a
>> character, and just sit down and start writing to see what happens. Others
>> carefully plan out a plot and an outline, and fill it in. I tend to fall in
>> between, meaning I think out my story, then sit to write it, and sometimes
>> it changes, and I just go with it. But there's only one way to find out
>> what
>> works best for you, and that's to sit and write.
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 08:41:05 -0500
>> From: myrnaspoetry <myrnaspoetry at yahoo.com>
>> To: Jackie Williams <jackieleepoet at cox.net>, Writer's Division Mailing
>> List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>> Message-ID: <53E47DE2-A6B8-466A-AB11-0EE07E556017 at yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
>>> stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lynda,
>>> This is a spectacular vision of Myrna's poem I loved it from the start,
>> but even more now. As a poet, I thank you for taking the time and effort to
>> really feel this poem and share your translation of it with all of us.
>>>
>>> Jackie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda
>> Lambert via stylist
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:19 PM
>>> To: Barbara HAMMEL; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll be lazy and tag onto this, Myrna. Here's to you!
>>>
>>> Hi Myrna,
>>> I wanted to write about this poem but needed lots of time to read it
>> through
>>> many times and dwell on it. I am a very slow reader when it comes to
>> poetry.
>>> I have to read a poem countless times before I can begin to put it
>> together.
>>> That is, if there is something there that is necessary to spend time
>>> thinking about for so long. This certainly is one of those poems ? I have
>>> carried it in my mind since the first reading of it. Tonight, it is dark
>>> and raining, and I am quite tired. It was the perfect time to reflect and
>>> write a few words on the poem. Here is what I thought about as I read it
>>> again this evening. Because I hold poetry in such a high place, I
>> normally
>>> have to think about it a lot -
>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> As the poem opens, I feel like I am seated in a dark theater and
>> watching as
>>> the curtain begins to rise so slowly. It is a feeling that I am
>> standing
>>> there with you as you open the curtain and on the stage, is a vault.
>> Just
>>> a vault. Nothing more. It stands in the center of the bare stage. We are
>>> quiet, and we wait to see what comes next.
>>> The word "vault" is so significant, I think, to where you are going in
>>> this piece.
>>> To my mind, a ?vault? is a much stronger word than if you had put
>> your
>>> colors in a box or a trunk. You gave me a new notion of keeping things
>> safe
>>> and a place for holding prized things. A vault reminds me of something
>> that
>>> is kept safely locked up, as a wall of metal safe deposit boxes in a
>>> ank - or the larger vault where the bank would keep money, and other
>> costly
>>> items. One has to have a key and legal access to enter into it. I
>> think it
>>> gives the idea of maximum security for treasures. But it is always
>> ?entered
>>> into? when one goes to a vault - I thought o f this poem a couple days
>> ago,
>>> as I entered into the vault to get my safe deposit box out to check on
>> some
>>> contents - I envisioned your "vault" in the poem as I stood there waiting
>>> for the person to unlock the box and leave me alone with it.
>>> The idea of the colors being ?unseen? strikes me, too. It makes me muse;
>>> Would a color be a visable, physical color if it was not visually seen?
>>> Because I have a very long visual memory of colors, I cannot really
>> think in
>>> any other way. I have no idea what a ?color? signifies to one who has
>> never
>>> seen a color. Just to mention a color makes me feel it, smell it, hold
>> it,
>>> embrace it. And, I wonder, is it this way for a person who have not had
>> the
>>> experiences with color, and how does it differ?
>>>
>>> The treasures here, put in the vault, have been garnered over a period of
>>> time ? like a ?collector? who brings precious coins, or gems, or money to
>>> their personal bank vault ? to keep it all safe from theft or loss. I
>> get
>>> the idea that the persona once knew colors intimately, but now does not,
>>> since the colors are called ?unseen.? But, then, all colors are unseen
>>> because they exist in the imagination of us all. The treasures are
>> elements
>>> of imagination ? the mysteries we can all gather and store no matter
>> what.
>>> When you begin to name colors, I can feel them as I read. The ?grace of
>>> blue? brings to my mind a holiness, a sacred object ? peacefulness of
>>> mysteries.
>>> And, the ?red? you describe is so powerful. It propels the motions
>> and
>>> movements of ?green.? Renewal of spring; renewal of Nature or of the
>> Earth.
>>> The red of fire and flames and the phoenix of life that emerges from it.
>>> Like a brilliant red bud that I can reach for and in the process fall
>> into
>>> the foliage that surrounds it.
>>>
>>> I will end here. I love it! Lynda
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 12:05 AM
>>> To: Jackie Williams ; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> I refrained from commenting earlier because the first time Iread it I
>>> thought not much of this offering but now that I've read it again I DO
>>> realize the wonder of it. Morna, I've saved 5 of your poems to add to my
>>> "other writers" poetry. I do very much enjoy your poems -- which shows
>> that
>>> I'm broadening my horizons since you write free verse. :) You, Lynda and
>>> Jackie write wonderfully.
>>> (LOL! My only disappointment about this poem is that purple, pink and
>> orange
>>> were missing by name.)
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 18:51, Jackie Williams via stylist <
>> stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Myrna,
>>>> I regret that it has taken me this long to comment on your superb poem.
>> It
>>>> is almost overwhelming with its personification of colors, and the
>>>> realization that these are remembered, and kept in a vault as treasures.
>>>> It makes me want to ask you a million questions.
>>>> I am one of the fortunate ones for whom the vault has not yet closed.
>> But
>>>> almost week by week, those colors are dimming without recognition of
>> the
>>>> hues, and shades. I have an aide who helped me put matching jewelry into
>>>> plastic bags on which I use a "pen-friend" which tells me the color, and
>>>> whether it is made by someone I know, and the date. I have always tried
>> to
>>>> be perfectly coordinated with everything on me, so it is a bitter pill.
>>>> You, obviously, at some point had full vision to remember the colors in
>>>> such
>>>> a personal way related to the entire outdoors and emotions as well.
>>>> I would like to know your background in writing poetry. Did you take
>>>> classes, go to workshops, get a degree?
>>>> And how would you feel about me copying this poem and taking it to my
>>>> poetry
>>>> class to share with my fellow poets in my critique group. Our first
>>>> meeting
>>>> this fall is this coming Tuesday. While they have some insight into the
>>>> blind because of me, but not nearly enough to recognize how creative the
>>>> blind can be.
>>>> I hope you are consistently getting better and closer to having your
>>>> computer.
>>>>
>>>> With admiration,
>>>> Jackie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> myrnaspoetry
>>>> via stylist
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 5:06 AM
>>>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>>>> Subject: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> Last night at our meeting we talked about colors and I wanted to share
>>>> this
>>>> poem I'd written some time ago. Hope it is enjoyed. I wish I could send
>> it
>>>> as attachment but I do not have access to my computer yet.
>>>> Myrna
>>>>
>>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> I open the door to my vault
>>>> of unseen colors using imagination's
>>>> key and I find myself in awe
>>>> and wonderment at the many treasures
>>>> I have gathered over the years,
>>>> the mysticism and the stark reality,
>>>> the grace of blue, its penchant for peace,
>>>> and the voracious appetite of red with its
>>>> livid caricature in times of anger.
>>>> I stumble across the many shades of green,
>>>> breathing in its promise of renewal.
>>>> I touch the playfulness of yellow and the glory of cerise, the
>>>> invitation of black and white,
>>>> and I smile at the seemingly
>>>> dull surprises of brown and gray,
>>>> and with faith renewed I sort through
>>>> the depths of every memory, the images
>>>> and echoes, the ocean's changing hues and seasonal
>>>> paintings upon a mountain, the building
>>>> of a night sky and a waking dawn,
>>>> the shadows of rainbows
>>>> and the portraits drawn by racing clouds.
>>>>
>>>> My memory vault is overflowing and yet
>>>> I cannot, nor will not, divide those special
>>>> moments into slots of importance for each
>>>> owns a significant place within the heart and
>>>> my vault would not be the same
>>>> without them, whether they are flawed
>>>> or remembered
>>>> in pristine perfection.
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 08:42:55 -0500
>> From: myrnaspoetry <myrnaspoetry at yahoo.com>
>> To: Jackie Williams <jackieleepoet at cox.net>, Writer's Division Mailing
>> List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>> Message-ID: <37B3B767-33A8-4308-9055-8E0DCCC43696 at yahoo.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>
>> To Jackie and Lynda
>> Thank you so very much for these kind words. You both have made my day and
>> made me smile.
>> Myrna
>>
>>
>>
>>>> On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
>>> stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lynda,
>>> This is a spectacular vision of Myrna's poem I loved it from the start,
>> but even more now. As a poet, I thank you for taking the time and effort to
>> really feel this poem and share your translation of it with all of us.
>>>
>>> Jackie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda
>> Lambert via stylist
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:19 PM
>>> To: Barbara HAMMEL; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll be lazy and tag onto this, Myrna. Here's to you!
>>>
>>> Hi Myrna,
>>> I wanted to write about this poem but needed lots of time to read it
>> through
>>> many times and dwell on it. I am a very slow reader when it comes to
>> poetry.
>>> I have to read a poem countless times before I can begin to put it
>> together.
>>> That is, if there is something there that is necessary to spend time
>>> thinking about for so long. This certainly is one of those poems ? I have
>>> carried it in my mind since the first reading of it. Tonight, it is dark
>>> and raining, and I am quite tired. It was the perfect time to reflect and
>>> write a few words on the poem. Here is what I thought about as I read it
>>> again this evening. Because I hold poetry in such a high place, I
>> normally
>>> have to think about it a lot -
>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> As the poem opens, I feel like I am seated in a dark theater and
>> watching as
>>> the curtain begins to rise so slowly. It is a feeling that I am
>> standing
>>> there with you as you open the curtain and on the stage, is a vault.
>> Just
>>> a vault. Nothing more. It stands in the center of the bare stage. We are
>>> quiet, and we wait to see what comes next.
>>> The word "vault" is so significant, I think, to where you are going in
>>> this piece.
>>> To my mind, a ?vault? is a much stronger word than if you had put
>> your
>>> colors in a box or a trunk. You gave me a new notion of keeping things
>> safe
>>> and a place for holding prized things. A vault reminds me of something
>> that
>>> is kept safely locked up, as a wall of metal safe deposit boxes in a
>>> ank - or the larger vault where the bank would keep money, and other
>> costly
>>> items. One has to have a key and legal access to enter into it. I
>> think it
>>> gives the idea of maximum security for treasures. But it is always
>> ?entered
>>> into? when one goes to a vault - I thought o f this poem a couple days
>> ago,
>>> as I entered into the vault to get my safe deposit box out to check on
>> some
>>> contents - I envisioned your "vault" in the poem as I stood there waiting
>>> for the person to unlock the box and leave me alone with it.
>>> The idea of the colors being ?unseen? strikes me, too. It makes me muse;
>>> Would a color be a visable, physical color if it was not visually seen?
>>> Because I have a very long visual memory of colors, I cannot really
>> think in
>>> any other way. I have no idea what a ?color? signifies to one who has
>> never
>>> seen a color. Just to mention a color makes me feel it, smell it, hold
>> it,
>>> embrace it. And, I wonder, is it this way for a person who have not had
>> the
>>> experiences with color, and how does it differ?
>>>
>>> The treasures here, put in the vault, have been garnered over a period of
>>> time ? like a ?collector? who brings precious coins, or gems, or money to
>>> their personal bank vault ? to keep it all safe from theft or loss. I
>> get
>>> the idea that the persona once knew colors intimately, but now does not,
>>> since the colors are called ?unseen.? But, then, all colors are unseen
>>> because they exist in the imagination of us all. The treasures are
>> elements
>>> of imagination ? the mysteries we can all gather and store no matter
>> what.
>>> When you begin to name colors, I can feel them as I read. The ?grace of
>>> blue? brings to my mind a holiness, a sacred object ? peacefulness of
>>> mysteries.
>>> And, the ?red? you describe is so powerful. It propels the motions
>> and
>>> movements of ?green.? Renewal of spring; renewal of Nature or of the
>> Earth.
>>> The red of fire and flames and the phoenix of life that emerges from it.
>>> Like a brilliant red bud that I can reach for and in the process fall
>> into
>>> the foliage that surrounds it.
>>>
>>> I will end here. I love it! Lynda
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 12:05 AM
>>> To: Jackie Williams ; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> I refrained from commenting earlier because the first time Iread it I
>>> thought not much of this offering but now that I've read it again I DO
>>> realize the wonder of it. Morna, I've saved 5 of your poems to add to my
>>> "other writers" poetry. I do very much enjoy your poems -- which shows
>> that
>>> I'm broadening my horizons since you write free verse. :) You, Lynda and
>>> Jackie write wonderfully.
>>> (LOL! My only disappointment about this poem is that purple, pink and
>> orange
>>> were missing by name.)
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 18:51, Jackie Williams via stylist <
>> stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Myrna,
>>>> I regret that it has taken me this long to comment on your superb poem.
>> It
>>>> is almost overwhelming with its personification of colors, and the
>>>> realization that these are remembered, and kept in a vault as treasures.
>>>> It makes me want to ask you a million questions.
>>>> I am one of the fortunate ones for whom the vault has not yet closed.
>> But
>>>> almost week by week, those colors are dimming without recognition of
>> the
>>>> hues, and shades. I have an aide who helped me put matching jewelry into
>>>> plastic bags on which I use a "pen-friend" which tells me the color, and
>>>> whether it is made by someone I know, and the date. I have always tried
>> to
>>>> be perfectly coordinated with everything on me, so it is a bitter pill.
>>>> You, obviously, at some point had full vision to remember the colors in
>>>> such
>>>> a personal way related to the entire outdoors and emotions as well.
>>>> I would like to know your background in writing poetry. Did you take
>>>> classes, go to workshops, get a degree?
>>>> And how would you feel about me copying this poem and taking it to my
>>>> poetry
>>>> class to share with my fellow poets in my critique group. Our first
>>>> meeting
>>>> this fall is this coming Tuesday. While they have some insight into the
>>>> blind because of me, but not nearly enough to recognize how creative the
>>>> blind can be.
>>>> I hope you are consistently getting better and closer to having your
>>>> computer.
>>>>
>>>> With admiration,
>>>> Jackie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> myrnaspoetry
>>>> via stylist
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 5:06 AM
>>>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>>>> Subject: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> Last night at our meeting we talked about colors and I wanted to share
>>>> this
>>>> poem I'd written some time ago. Hope it is enjoyed. I wish I could send
>> it
>>>> as attachment but I do not have access to my computer yet.
>>>> Myrna
>>>>
>>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> I open the door to my vault
>>>> of unseen colors using imagination's
>>>> key and I find myself in awe
>>>> and wonderment at the many treasures
>>>> I have gathered over the years,
>>>> the mysticism and the stark reality,
>>>> the grace of blue, its penchant for peace,
>>>> and the voracious appetite of red with its
>>>> livid caricature in times of anger.
>>>> I stumble across the many shades of green,
>>>> breathing in its promise of renewal.
>>>> I touch the playfulness of yellow and the glory of cerise, the
>>>> invitation of black and white,
>>>> and I smile at the seemingly
>>>> dull surprises of brown and gray,
>>>> and with faith renewed I sort through
>>>> the depths of every memory, the images
>>>> and echoes, the ocean's changing hues and seasonal
>>>> paintings upon a mountain, the building
>>>> of a night sky and a waking dawn,
>>>> the shadows of rainbows
>>>> and the portraits drawn by racing clouds.
>>>>
>>>> My memory vault is overflowing and yet
>>>> I cannot, nor will not, divide those special
>>>> moments into slots of importance for each
>>>> owns a significant place within the heart and
>>>> my vault would not be the same
>>>> without them, whether they are flawed
>>>> or remembered
>>>> in pristine perfection.
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Writers Division web site
>>>> http://writers.nfb.org/
>>>> stylist mailing list
>>>> stylist at nfbnet.org
>>>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
>>>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
>>>> stylist:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/jackieleepoet%40cox.net
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 10:50:39 -0500
>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>> To: "myrnaspoetry" <myrnaspoetry at yahoo.com>, "Writer's Division
>> Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>> Message-ID: <SNT148-DS154DC3240A97C1FD305DEFEBA00 at phx.gbl>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8";
>> reply-type=original
>>
>>
>> I also envisioned you looking into a vault but then just walking into
>> it
>> and lovingly picking up each memory and examining it ... like I sometimes
>> do
>> with the dolls in my doll collection.
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: myrnaspoetry via stylist
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 8:42 AM
>> To: Jackie Williams ; Writer's Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>>
>> To Jackie and Lynda
>> Thank you so very much for these kind words. You both have made my day and
>> made me smile.
>> Myrna
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist
>>> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lynda,
>>> This is a spectacular vision of Myrna's poem I loved it from the start,
>>> but even more now. As a poet, I thank you for taking the time and effort
>>> to really feel this poem and share your translation of it with all of us.
>>>
>>> Jackie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda
>>> Lambert via stylist
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 5:19 PM
>>> To: Barbara HAMMEL; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors- for MYRNA
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll be lazy and tag onto this, Myrna. Here's to you!
>>>
>>> Hi Myrna,
>>> I wanted to write about this poem but needed lots of time to read it
>>> through
>>> many times and dwell on it. I am a very slow reader when it comes to
>>> poetry.
>>> I have to read a poem countless times before I can begin to put it
>>> together.
>>> That is, if there is something there that is necessary to spend time
>>> thinking about for so long. This certainly is one of those poems ? I have
>>> carried it in my mind since the first reading of it. Tonight, it is dark
>>> and raining, and I am quite tired. It was the perfect time to reflect and
>>> write a few words on the poem. Here is what I thought about as I read it
>>> again this evening. Because I hold poetry in such a high place, I
>> normally
>>> have to think about it a lot -
>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> As the poem opens, I feel like I am seated in a dark theater and watching
>>> as
>>> the curtain begins to rise so slowly. It is a feeling that I am
>> standing
>>> there with you as you open the curtain and on the stage, is a vault.
>>> Just
>>> a vault. Nothing more. It stands in the center of the bare stage. We are
>>> quiet, and we wait to see what comes next.
>>> The word "vault" is so significant, I think, to where you are going in
>>> this piece.
>>> To my mind, a ?vault? is a much stronger word than if you had put
>>> your
>>> colors in a box or a trunk. You gave me a new notion of keeping things
>>> safe
>>> and a place for holding prized things. A vault reminds me of something
>>> that
>>> is kept safely locked up, as a wall of metal safe deposit boxes in a
>>> ank - or the larger vault where the bank would keep money, and other
>>> costly
>>> items. One has to have a key and legal access to enter into it. I think
>>> it
>>> gives the idea of maximum security for treasures. But it is always
>>> ?entered
>>> into? when one goes to a vault - I thought o f this poem a couple days
>>> ago,
>>> as I entered into the vault to get my safe deposit box out to check on
>>> some
>>> contents - I envisioned your "vault" in the poem as I stood there waiting
>>> for the person to unlock the box and leave me alone with it.
>>> The idea of the colors being ?unseen? strikes me, too. It makes me muse;
>>> Would a color be a visable, physical color if it was not visually seen?
>>> Because I have a very long visual memory of colors, I cannot really think
>>> in
>>> any other way. I have no idea what a ?color? signifies to one who has
>>> never
>>> seen a color. Just to mention a color makes me feel it, smell it, hold
>> it,
>>> embrace it. And, I wonder, is it this way for a person who have not had
>>> the
>>> experiences with color, and how does it differ?
>>>
>>> The treasures here, put in the vault, have been garnered over a period of
>>> time ? like a ?collector? who brings precious coins, or gems, or money to
>>> their personal bank vault ? to keep it all safe from theft or loss. I
>> get
>>> the idea that the persona once knew colors intimately, but now does not,
>>> since the colors are called ?unseen.? But, then, all colors are unseen
>>> because they exist in the imagination of us all. The treasures are
>>> elements
>>> of imagination ? the mysteries we can all gather and store no matter
>> what.
>>> When you begin to name colors, I can feel them as I read. The ?grace of
>>> blue? brings to my mind a holiness, a sacred object ? peacefulness of
>>> mysteries.
>>> And, the ?red? you describe is so powerful. It propels the motions
>>> and
>>> movements of ?green.? Renewal of spring; renewal of Nature or of the
>>> Earth.
>>> The red of fire and flames and the phoenix of life that emerges from it.
>>> Like a brilliant red bud that I can reach for and in the process fall
>> into
>>> the foliage that surrounds it.
>>>
>>> I will end here. I love it! Lynda
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 12:05 AM
>>> To: Jackie Williams ; Writer's Division Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>
>>> I refrained from commenting earlier because the first time Iread it I
>>> thought not much of this offering but now that I've read it again I DO
>>> realize the wonder of it. Morna, I've saved 5 of your poems to add to my
>>> "other writers" poetry. I do very much enjoy your poems -- which shows
>>> that
>>> I'm broadening my horizons since you write free verse. :) You, Lynda and
>>> Jackie write wonderfully.
>>> (LOL! My only disappointment about this poem is that purple, pink and
>>> orange
>>> were missing by name.)
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 18:51, Jackie Williams via stylist
>>>> <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Myrna,
>>>> I regret that it has taken me this long to comment on your superb poem.
>>>> It
>>>> is almost overwhelming with its personification of colors, and the
>>>> realization that these are remembered, and kept in a vault as treasures.
>>>> It makes me want to ask you a million questions.
>>>> I am one of the fortunate ones for whom the vault has not yet closed.
>> But
>>>> almost week by week, those colors are dimming without recognition of
>> the
>>>> hues, and shades. I have an aide who helped me put matching jewelry into
>>>> plastic bags on which I use a "pen-friend" which tells me the color, and
>>>> whether it is made by someone I know, and the date. I have always tried
>>>> to
>>>> be perfectly coordinated with everything on me, so it is a bitter pill.
>>>> You, obviously, at some point had full vision to remember the colors in
>>>> such
>>>> a personal way related to the entire outdoors and emotions as well.
>>>> I would like to know your background in writing poetry. Did you take
>>>> classes, go to workshops, get a degree?
>>>> And how would you feel about me copying this poem and taking it to my
>>>> poetry
>>>> class to share with my fellow poets in my critique group. Our first
>>>> meeting
>>>> this fall is this coming Tuesday. While they have some insight into the
>>>> blind because of me, but not nearly enough to recognize how creative the
>>>> blind can be.
>>>> I hope you are consistently getting better and closer to having your
>>>> computer.
>>>>
>>>> With admiration,
>>>> Jackie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> myrnaspoetry
>>>> via stylist
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 5:06 AM
>>>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
>>>> Subject: [stylist] Poem My Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> Last night at our meeting we talked about colors and I wanted to share
>>>> this
>>>> poem I'd written some time ago. Hope it is enjoyed. I wish I could send
>>>> it
>>>> as attachment but I do not have access to my computer yet.
>>>> Myrna
>>>>
>>>> Vault of Unseen Colors
>>>>
>>>> I open the door to my vault
>>>> of unseen colors using imagination's
>>>> key and I find myself in awe
>>>> and wonderment at the many treasures
>>>> I have gathered over the years,
>>>> the mysticism and the stark reality,
>>>> the grace of blue, its penchant for peace,
>>>> and the voracious appetite of red with its
>>>> livid caricature in times of anger.
>>>> I stumble across the many shades of green,
>>>> breathing in its promise of renewal.
>>>> I touch the playfulness of yellow and the glory of cerise, the
>>>> invitation of black and white,
>>>> and I smile at the seemingly
>>>> dull surprises of brown and gray,
>>>> and with faith renewed I sort through
>>>> the depths of every memory, the images
>>>> and echoes, the ocean's changing hues and seasonal
>>>> paintings upon a mountain, the building
>>>> of a night sky and a waking dawn,
>>>> the shadows of rainbows
>>>> and the portraits drawn by racing clouds.
>>>>
>>>> My memory vault is overflowing and yet
>>>> I cannot, nor will not, divide those special
>>>> moments into slots of importance for each
>>>> owns a significant place within the heart and
>>>> my vault would not be the same
>>>> without them, whether they are flawed
>>>> or remembered
>>>> in pristine perfection.
>>>>
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:00:38 -0400
>> From: Applebutter Hill <applebutterhill at gmail.com>
>> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [stylist] A great article about Braille for older adults from
>> our newest Stylist member
>> Message-ID: <DEBEFE9A0E5A4BDCB903BC9A8FB7BA21 at OwnerHP>
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>> Hi All,
>> I was surfing the internet and found this article about learning Braille as
>> an older adult by Helen Kobeck, who just introduced herself to the list a
>> few days ago. It's from the National Braille Press's Inside NBP blog.
>>
>> http://nationalbraillepress.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/minding-your-ps-and-qs-
>> learning-braille-as-an-older-adult/
>> Enjoy,
>> Donna
>>
>>
>> -- The Heart of Applebutter Hill - a novel on a mission:
>>
>> http://DonnaWHill.com <http://donnawhill.com/>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:04:28 -0500
>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>> To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: [stylist] poetry group opportunity
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>>
>> A friend and I are thinking about putting together a poetry group and were
>> wondering if anyone here would be interested in joining us. If you are,
>> write me offline at poetlori8 at msn.com
>> Barbara Hammel
>>
>> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
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