[stylist] Re Poems about weather

[Lynda Lambert]

Here is a poem I wrote in 1991 – A Summer Story 
Many of my pieces have weather conditions as a theme.
Do any of you often focus on weather in your work, too?

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A Summer Story



I am very small

In a summer storm

cradled on my father’s lap

moving back and forth

rocking in a chair

lightening flashes

rain glazes my view 

I am filled with fearful thoughts.

“Do not be afraid,” he says

I ask “Can we take the new refrigerator

with us when we die?”

“No!” he replied

“We can take nothing with us

but  our love.”



I saw him once again

after his death,

my granddaughter in his lap.



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Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 1991, 2014, 2015. All rights reserved.

Published_by Women’s Caucus for Art, Washington, DC