[stylist] Re Poems about weather

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Is is a regional thing or are both spellings correct? I see many folks here writing lightening but I thought it was spelling lightning. When I was that age, Lynda, I was afraid of the thunder but loved the lightning. It wasn't until I understood what lightning was that I tried to convince myself to be the other way.
Barbara
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> On Aug 14, 2015, at 08:36, Lynda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> thanks for your comments, Sm.  I wrote it as I remembered it - I was probably about 4 or 5  years old and quite afraid of lightening as it flashed all around us on that porch.  The new refrigerator must have been really important to me, since I wanted to know if it could go with  us when we died - from the lightning, I suppose. I know by the date of publication that I wrote this poem in grad school. Lynda
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> -----Original Message----- From: Semirhage via stylist
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> Linda,
> I liked the poem. Oddly I was picturing the scene of the rocking chair and
> you in our father's lap s a child, and it felt so warm and summer like and
> peaceful and pleasant that I was surprised a little to see that you were
> frightened by the storm. If that was the intent, cool, and if you wanted it
> to come across more frightening in the beginning to convey that, maybe more
> dark undertones or something. Not sure maybe it's just me as I like the rain
> in the summer especially.
> Funny about the refrigerator and taking it with you when you die as I loved
> that bit as being a young minded thing we can likely all relate to as
> children. The want to do something like that and attachment to things in
> such a way that we want it with us even in the beyond...Like the Ancient
> Egyptians and other cultures believed/felt always and that's why they buried
> with them so many worldly possessions.
> This poem was neat for me as I did actually have something to ad about it.
> Many are behind me, escaping either praise or criticism as I know they're
> just beyond me and though that's not  bad, it doesn't allow me to speak
> constructively on it either. I think I'm careful of that due to a
> educational situation that happened to my husband and I a few years sago at
> our local writer's group meeting. The guy trying to critique a fantasy story
> we'd begun held the entire thing up with thoughts and comments that were not
> helpful and made no sense because he was a realistic fiction writer and knew
> nothing about fantasy. HE admitted as much, but another author interrupted
> him to say anything you're telling them to clarify wouldn't be necessary to
> a fantasy reader and anyone reading this would be. I.E the things he wanted
> clarified wouldn't need to be to anyone reading it with an interest in such,
> so it was hindering more than anything. I feel the same when it comes to
> most poetry and that's why I don't comment about it, not feeling apt enough
> to do so.
> Sem
> I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
> I get along with the voices inside of my head.
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