Walking by Inner Vision Blog

by Lynda McKinney Lambert

Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad

I gather ingredients beneath snow patches

in my poker-faced winter garden

frozen nouns and crystalized verbs that

crunch beneath my purple boots

The large blue bowl will hold

a plentiful, colorful virtual spring salad

I slice crisp winter onions

mix with fresh-washed adjectives

combine good-looking spinach with

roasted red peppers and water chestnuts

Mix verdant green-leaf lettuce

with active verbs:

must, should, ought to, have to,

shred, rip, and tear tender leaves

Cubed tofu fried with whole walnuts

sizzled in extra-virgin olive oil

add some piquant words. Are you hungry yet?!

Sliced organic carrots enhance juicy tomato wedges.

Drizzle some succulent sentences over our poetic salad.

Cauliflower florets provide contrast between stanzas.

I plucked fresh wild mushrooms this morning

included a pinch of fresh oregano and parsley

added a smidgeon of sea salt and black pepper punctuation

buttered croutons added texture to end-rhymes

Sprinkled lightly with white wine vinegar

enhanced with pimento-stuffed green olives.

For the enjoyment of my cybernetic friends.

I offer my virtual spring salad –

the poetry of life tossed in a blue bowl

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Courtesy of Lynda McKinney Lambert

Listen to Lynda read her poem at the Spring Reception in  Hong Kong. Listen now!

Published:

Mingled Voices 5: International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2020 

 Lynda received

Special Mention for a Body of Work

Lynda has 6 poems in this collection.

Mingled Voices5  Anthology, April 2021

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An INVITATION TO

THE VIRTUAL PROVERSE SPRING RECEPTION 2021

Proverse Hong Kong, Publishers;

Administrators of the International Proverse Prize for unpublished (book-length) fiction, non-fiction or poetry

and the International Proverse Poetry Prize (single poems);

The Virtual Proverse Spring Reception, Lynda presented her poem at this reception in Hong Kong.

 Lynda McKinney Lambert is one of the SELECTED POETS  –

LISTEN to Lynda re4ad  Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad.  Here!

Poets featured in the Anthology are  from Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the Czech Republic, the UK, the USA.

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