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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear writer friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Today while the men are at work laying the tile in the dining room floor, I am working in my office which is not far from the workers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am sifting through years of journals and reading entries I made each summer when I was teaching and living in Europe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This really gives me new insight on those days as I am working to create the revised version of my first book.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I wrote Concerti: Psalms from the Pilgrimage, from writings I created and the back stories are in my journals. Right now, I am working on the newly revised draft.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My goal is to have it ready to send out in December. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am sharing a poem written from my journal entries on July 21, 1999. This prose poem appeared in the book, published in January 2003 by Kota Press.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I included this poem in my book, Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, DLD books, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Each time I read the poem, I am standing in the gallery viewing the painting that inspired the poem. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve posted it below for your enjoyment on the first day of October , 2020.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US>*****Journal Entry: July 21, 1999 *****<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US>“Notes from the Baroque Museum” prose poem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Antonio Pellegrini (1675-1741)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The format of this picture is a square with corners painted brown. This leaves an undulating cross shape in the center where the action of the painting takes place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is a rather narrow gold frame and the inside edges are fluted like gentle waves all around the picture’s edges.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Two white horses crisscross. One flies over and behind the other.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Two other horses, one tan and one brown, fall towards the bottom left corner.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is only now I realize the four horses were pulling a chariot and there has been an accident!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The chariot is overturned and the charioteer falls toward the bottom right corner – his bent leg indicates he will not fall freely through the sky but his body will be stopped with a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> SNAP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>because he is caught on the chariot.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A being with wings hovers above the chaos – like a large gray goose. On the back of the goose rides a white bearded man. His right arm is high above his head and he leans toward the chariot wreck. The actions all take place in the heavens amid pink and tan clouds that float in a diagonal from the bottom left to the top right. The sky is a heavy cobalt blue and it casts the white horses forward towards me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There seems to be a fire in the sky, which sears the mane of the brown horse as he falls toward me and I stand here watching the sky and the fire, and the events that are taking place in the picture frame.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoBodyText align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=EN-US>I am helpless!<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoBodyText style='text-align:left;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Lynda McKinney Lambert – Author/Artist<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>My MISSION STATEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>I am the keeper of memories. I distil and share them through art and writing.</span></i><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></li><li class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>I reveal what is forgotten, lost, or unseen.</span></i><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1C1E21;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>I write spare poems and thoughtful personal essays.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1C1E21;margin-top:4.5pt;margin-bottom:4.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>I create art with brilliant colors & precious materials, one stitch at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:.5in;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C1E21;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>