[stylist] Red December
Shelley Alongi
queenofbells at outlook.com
Sun Dec 3 04:29:14 UTC 2017
I like it.
From: Linda Lambert via stylist<mailto:stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2017 8:07 PM
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Cc: llambert at zoominternet.net<mailto:llambert at zoominternet.net>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Red December
Hi Writing Friends at NFB,
I am announcing that my poem, "Red December," was selected for publication
in an international anthology.
I Won A PLACE
IN THE PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY 2017
("Mingled Voices 2")
This is a Hong Kong (China) publication and I was waiting for this good
news. I just had a "feeling" my work would be included.
I REALLY wanted this! I think I might just celebrate with a nice hot cup of
Red Rose Tea tonight.
Here is my winning poem:
Red December
New-fallen snow glimmers in pre-dawn darkness
slender red barberries dangle from thin bare branches
I shuffle my feet, dig in to feel solid ground
near the place where my Father's red roses
are surrounded by pillows of snow
slumbering safe in dark red December.
My heavy suede boots part the snow
It's too early for the red cardinals
"Where do they go at night?"
A sharp wind makes me huddle deeper into my bright
red boucle' jacket
while my two dogs search random trails
follow the long marks, meander downhill.
On a crisp day in mid-December
I desire red raspberry jam on warm toast
Linger by the tall pampas grass
weighted down to the ground with icy snow
I think of strawberry Sundays with whipped cream
I recall wearing Neiman Marcus Red lipstick and
dancing all night in
hot red stilettos and tight blue jeans.
We turn around - for the return home
the dogs circle in the frozen pachysandra patches
stiff, brown-green shrunken leaves.
In memories I see my neighbor walking to her car
she wears a cranberry red hat, worsted red wool coat, flat, scarlet red
shoes
carries a true-red leather handbag like the one I bought last Sunday.
I watched her from the upstairs window.
In her 80s, she revealed how to live a gallant life.
No cars pass us on the country road this morning in red December
Where it is perpetual winter.
Lynda McKinney Lambert
www.lyndalambert.com<http://www.lyndalambert.com>
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