[Stylist] A poem for the final day of National Poetry Month
Jacobson, Shawn D
Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
Wed May 1 16:56:07 UTC 2019
Linda
I just read your article and found it interesting. The idea of a dialectic is that the clash of imperfect ideas/ways of ordering the world would yield new ideas, a synthesis, that would be closer to perfection.
It was a nice piece, I'm glad I read it.
Shawn
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Thanks for your thoughts, Barbara. I appreciate the comments very much. I'm always open to discussing a variety of thought processes in our work.
I understand that you are unsure of what you see there.
It is a different way of thinking about life.- I just had a couple poems and an essay published in the new Magnets & Ladders magazine that came out - in in the Essay, "Hegel, Me, and the blueberry Moon," I think you will gain insight if you would like to read about non-traditional ways of thinking in our creative life.
Lynda
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I was confused, too, Shawn, but that's my literal brain that also has to
work through another reading or two. Barbara Hammel
> On Apr 30, 2019, at 12:53, Jacobson, Shawn D via Stylist
<stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Linda
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> 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.
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> My fault not yours; I'm not an adept poetry reader.
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> Shawn
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> Month
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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.
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> Enjoy this wintry-themed poem.
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>
> 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.
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> "Weather Observations"
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>
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> 6:30 AM, overcast and chilly
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>
>
> You appear at my doorway
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> an Aloe Vera plant slumped in your left hand
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> "What should we do with this?" you ask.
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> Clouds drift around your head.
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> "Do we have a name for this one?
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> It fell out of the nest this morning."
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> Winds are 14 miles per hour
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> Visibility is 7 miles
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> Your fingers clutch fragile memories
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> floating around the dangling roots
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> Medicinal plants are not always accurate.
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> Rain or snow determines your travels
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> A simple procedure- one hour, or so.
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> Partially sunny and chilly.
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> Visibility 10 miles.
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> One by one, the surgical team
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> visits our Aloe Vera plant.
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> "just a little blood" - the nurse says
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> "That will have to do," you say.
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> Observations are higher or lower
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> than what is listed in a short-range forecast.
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> I say, "The moon is in the last quarter."
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> You thump my hands, one after the other -
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> and once again.
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> You warn me, "this will pinch a lot.
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> The Moon is in Libra today"
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> "Don't move," you say.
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> The surgeon says,
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> "When the moon is ready, we will go."
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> "We are ready anyway, you say.
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> The time is now - the sky is exposed.
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> Current positions of the planets
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> The musicians
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> are ready to roll into the concert hall.
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> Noon: 30 degrees F.
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> Partially sunny and chilly
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> "You can hear the aloe plant
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> breathing across the entire room."
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> You are given a new name:
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> Stat Chest Bed Number 10
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> 5 PM.: Sunny and Chilly
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> 31 degrees F.
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> 12 miles per hour winds
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> -
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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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> -
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> Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved.
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>
> 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>
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> About Lynda McKinney Lambert
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> On FaceBook:
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