[stylist] Red December

[llambert at zoominternet.net]

Barbara, I don't think my poem would be in a Proverse Hong Kong's publication if I did that. It's not my niche.
Lynda


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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2017 1:56 AM
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Cc: Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8 at msn.com>
Subject: Re: [stylist] Red December



LOL! If you'd written this poem according to my synesthesia it would have had to be September or March and the day you mentioned — Sunday — is pink bubblegum pink but Tuesday or Thursday would have worked. 
Barbara Hammel

> On Dec 3, 2017, at 00:07, Osman Koroma via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Congratulation
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>> On Dec 2, 2017, at 21:06, Linda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Writing Friends at NFB,
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>> I am announcing that my poem, "Red December," was selected for 
>> publication in an international anthology.
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>> I Won  A PLACE
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>> IN THE PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY 2017
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>> ("Mingled Voices 2")
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>> 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.
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>> I REALLY wanted this! I think I might just celebrate with a nice hot 
>> cup of Red Rose Tea tonight.
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>> Here is my winning poem:
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>> Red December
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>> New-fallen snow glimmers in pre-dawn darkness
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>> slender red barberries dangle from thin bare branches
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>> I shuffle my feet, dig in to feel solid ground
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>> near the place where my Father's red roses
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>> are surrounded by pillows of snow
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>> slumbering safe in dark red December.  
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>> My heavy suede boots part the snow
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>> It's too early for the red cardinals
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>> "Where do they go at night?"
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>> A sharp wind makes me huddle deeper into my bright
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>> red boucle' jacket
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>> while my two dogs search random trails
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>> follow the long marks, meander downhill.
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>> On a crisp day in mid-December
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>> I desire red raspberry jam on warm toast
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>> Linger by the tall pampas grass
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>> weighted down to the ground with icy snow
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>> I think of strawberry Sundays with whipped cream
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>> I recall wearing Neiman Marcus Red lipstick and
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>> dancing all night in
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>> hot red stilettos and tight blue jeans.
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>> We turn around - for the return home
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>> the dogs circle in the frozen pachysandra patches
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>> stiff, brown-green  shrunken leaves.
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>> In memories I see my neighbor walking to her car
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>> she wears a cranberry red hat, worsted red wool coat, flat, scarlet 
>> red shoes
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>> carries a true-red leather handbag like the one I bought last Sunday.
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>> I watched her from the upstairs window.
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>> In her 80s, she revealed how to live a gallant life.
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>> No cars pass us on the country road  this morning in red December
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>> Where it is perpetual winter.
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>> Lynda McKinney Lambert
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>> www.lyndalambert.com
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