[Stylist] A poem for the final day of National Poetry Month
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Tue Apr 30 20:42:49 UTC 2019
A ha!
I appreciate and understand your comment. And, I am smiling broadly.
Have you ever observed a woven tapestry, Shawn?
I work with constellated time - or a collapsed timeline in my writings.
And, to add to the development of weaving this cloth of words and images,
you will find that it is also palimpsestic.
Imagine looking at a billboard or a an old wall on which many pictures have
been pasted down, over time, and removed over the years, each leaving
fragments of the former remnants of pictures behind.
Hegel influenced me a lot as a student - and I am very influenced by those
ideas in everything I create.
Yes, this is another way of thinking - it is not linear, but it is cyclical
instead.
Lynda
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Linda
I liked that one, though I'll have to read it again to make sure I
understand it. You jump from the weather to the aloe vera to a medical
procedures and I did get a bit lost.
My fault not yours; I'm not an adept poetry reader.
Shawn
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April 30 - Greetings today on our final day of celebrating this wonderful
National Holiday.
I am posting a poem which is ONE of my personal favorite poems of those
I've written since my first publication of a poem in September 1990.
Enjoy this wintry-themed poem.
At the end of the post I have included a link if you want to listen to me
reading this poem and another one that is on the Wordgathering site.
"Weather Observations"
6:30 AM, overcast and chilly
You appear at my doorway
an Aloe Vera plant slumped in your left hand
"What should we do with this?" you ask.
Clouds drift around your head.
"Do we have a name for this one?
It fell out of the nest this morning."
Winds are 14 miles per hour
Visibility is 7 miles
Your fingers clutch fragile memories
floating around the dangling roots
Medicinal plants are not always accurate.
Rain or snow determines your travels
A simple procedure- one hour, or so.
Partially sunny and chilly.
Visibility 10 miles.
One by one, the surgical team
visits our Aloe Vera plant.
"just a little blood" - the nurse says
"That will have to do," you say.
Observations are higher or lower
than what is listed in a short-range forecast.
I say, "The moon is in the last quarter."
You thump my hands, one after the other -
and once again.
You warn me, "this will pinch a lot.
The Moon is in Libra today"
"Don't move," you say.
The surgeon says,
"When the moon is ready, we will go."
"We are ready anyway, you say.
The time is now - the sky is exposed.
Current positions of the planets
The musicians
are ready to roll into the concert hall.
Noon: 30 degrees F.
Partially sunny and chilly
"You can hear the aloe plant
breathing across the entire room."
You are given a new name:
Stat Chest Bed Number 10
5 PM.: Sunny and Chilly
31 degrees F.
12 miles per hour winds
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PUBLISHED:
Listen to a voice recording of "Weather Observations" Click here, to read
and Listen to Audio of Lynda reading 2 poems.
<http://www.wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue48/poetry/lambert.html>
Wordgathering. Volume 12, Issue 4. December 2018.
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This poem will appear in my forthcoming full-length book of poetry, Star
Signs: New and Selected Poems.
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Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved.
Lynda's Poems: <http://www.lyndalambert.com/lyndas-poems/> Click here to
read more poems!
Listen to the Audio of "Weather Observations" and "Of Smoke & Mirrors," on
Wordgathering: Listen now!
<http://www.wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue48/poetry/lambert.html>
About Lynda McKinney Lambert
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