[stylist] Re Poems about weather

Thu Aug 13 18:11:52 UTC 2015

Good Afternoon,

When I try to send an e-mail to the group, I never can get it to work unless 
I send it to Jackie - I have no idea why this is - but please do not take 
offense, for I am writing to anyone interested.

Thanks for your feedback on this poem.  I had forgotten about it and had to 
look in my archives for 1991 where I found the publication of it.   I 
realized when I read your comments, Jackie, I was writing without using much 
punctuation a long time back - but was thinking it was more recent. 
Eliminating punctuation is a concern for me.
These days I am so occupied with cleaning things up - in every way.  I look 
at the poems, and then I go back into it to sweep it clean - there is 
something that clears my mind and feelings and makes me ready to create 
both in a studio or at the keyboard.
A "clean sweep" is what I have to have before I can begin anything - and 
then I do it again after I feel like it might be finished. It is a ritual, 
of sorts - and I can pin-point exactly when I understood this about my 
creative life.
I was awarded a fellowship to  the Vermont Studio School in 1987 - and I met 
up with Louise Fishman (famous NYC abstract painter) - and on the night she 
lectured and told her story to us fellows, she put into words exactly how I 
am in my own creative life - it was the  first encounter I ever had with 
this kind of thought. All these years later, I continue to learn how to 
de-clutter - I think it is a life long, steep,  learning curve.
I associate frightening storms with the comfort of my father's arms and his 
reassuring words. Lynda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Re Poems about weather

Lynda,
This is a wonderful poem. The first thing I noticed was the impact that came 
from the short lines. Also, it was very comfortable with no punctuation, for 
the lines took care of that.
I loved the line about the refrigerator, and of course, the line of taking 
love as the only thing that will go with one.
You have combined the theme with weather to a powerful human poem. And your 
ending tells us so clearly about what you now see out of the past.
No I do not write about weather, per se, but I write a great deal about 
climate change, and the loss of species.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert 
via stylist
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:21 AM
To: Jackie Williams via stylist
Cc: Lynda Lambert
Subject: [stylist] Re Poems about weather

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?

**
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.

**

Published_by Women’s Caucus for Art, Washington, DC

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