[Stylist] Big Surprise: Book of the Day -

Fri Sep 20 23:58:05 UTC 2019

Dear Friends in Writing Endeavours,

I've been away the past 2 days with hospital and doctor visits for Bob and
me. I finally got to check my e-mail this evening and found this wonderful
news.

What a great day this has been - when I visited my eye specialist, he told
me he was ordering a number  of my chapbooks to give as gifts. He commented,
"I want to support you and I want to be the first to kick-off your
Pre-Orders for the new book!"  Not only did I leave his office with a great
report from my scans today, that everything is holding and I am not losing
more sight at this time - but, then, the affirmation he gave me on my newest
publication was a little boost that everyone needs from time to time. I
think I floated out of that office - I don't remember my feet touching the
ground. Some days are like this. Some are not.

And, here is the big surprise I got this evening:

For immediate Release: from Lynda McKinney Lambert

September 20, 2019:

TODAY:  first snow is Book of the Day on Finishing Line Press.

first snow  - featured on Finishing Line Press social media sites.  

FLP is running a paid advertisement this week on social media for my new
chapbook!

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About the Author:

Lynda McKinney Lambert, is a retired college professor of fine arts and
humanities. Retirement from teaching opened the door for her to write
full-time. She explores the themes of landscape, mythology, pilgrimage, fine
arts and literature in her writing.

She loves walking through a meadow of wild flowers; gazing at a star-strewn
sky; spending solitary winter days with her husband, Bob, their 2 rescued
cats and 2 rescued dogs.   

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR first snow by Lynda McKinney Lambert 

My grandmother knew the name of every bird by note and call who ever sang to
the sun in the fields by her Wisconsin country home, and she knew the names
of the trees by bark and needle and leaf in the woods.  In these days of
urban desolation and digital isolation, it is harder and harder to keep hold
of the once-common natural knowledge.  Here in Lynda Lambert's poetry the
vitality of the seasons is still felt, seen and heard.   Lambert notices the
colors and sounds that surround us, those sights and odes that barely
register through our buds and pads and windshields, and she names them for
us and she remembers them for us.  In these poems, Lambert calls her readers
to celebrate the blue spruce in the morning fog, to "stand in darkness /
urging Blood Moon-arise" and to be alive in the old ways.  "It feels like we
have been here," she says of one icy morning, "for a thousand years."  In
these pages, we have.

-Russell Streur, editor Plum Tree Tavern, author Fault Zones.

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RESERVE YOUR COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION TODAY, PREORDER SHIPS JANUARY 3,
2020

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4 Sample Poems from  first snow.

By Lynda McKinney Lambert

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first snow

we watch  

for the first

snowfall  

wait for

silent passage  

along the banks of

ancient creeks

dull morning light 

conceals 

gold-plated Gingko leaves

beneath

new-fallen snow

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from "Dream Sequence" # 4

In my dream (#4)

I climb upwards

on the ladder I stumbled upon

in the woods one afternoon.

Earth disappears

the ladder is unstable

"Keep it straight up," I whisper.

"Keep your body centered. Stay poised."

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Silver Cloud Dancers

Silver clouds swirl & spin in circles

Inflated silence above her golden head. She

Levitates above the floor, reaches for 

Variable visions of mesmerizing cloud-pillows.

Eternally drifting in uncertain lifecycles  

Round & square. Touch the floating orbs.

Cloud dancer stretches her slender hands 

Longevity is unpredictable, uncertain

Out-of-the-box survival fluctuates  

Undulates

Determined by chemistry & chaos.

Dance your memories in silver clouds 

Air and pure helium lift in rhythm

No one can calculate your journeys

Choreography of individual flights

Every Friday morning new clouds arrive

Repeat the process of new expectations

Some silver clouds last for a week. Some don't.

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My Daughter Cut the Roses

My daughter looked 

at the bouquet of fresh roses

noticed two of them were drooping.

"Let me show you how to trim the roses

so they stay fresh and strong." she said. 

Her hands held the roses tenderly

One-by-one, trimmed off extra leaves

"These will make the water stink," she said.

She found scissors in the drawer

put the roses in a bowl of tepid water

held each stem under water

sliced them all, diagonally -

"As I cut the rose under the water, 

little bubbles of air come to the surface.

Now, when the rose inhales

it will only breathe water into it, 

 it won't fill up with air.

The living water inside the stems

gives longer life to each rose."

She carried the freshened flowers

In the tall glass vase

back to the center of the dining room table

darkest crimson buds, sunny yellow petals,

deep green fern leaves 

and a frilly white carnation.

First snow is featured today on the following sites:

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Lynda's Authors Page- Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/author/lyndalambert 

Lynda's Official Authors Page: http://www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert/

Smashwords - get my e-book:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lyndalambert

My Blogs:

Website  <http://www.lyndalambert.com/> & Blog:  Lynda McKinney Lambert  -
Official Author's Website

Scan-A-Blog <http://www.llambert363.blog/>  - A quiet Place of Inspiration,
Art, Nature, Literature

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