Walking by Inner Vision

Presents

A Poem and Backstory

From Lynda’s Journal

“Warm Thanks”

©Lynda McKinney Lambert

 

I have been wanting to tell you

thinking of you daily is easy

some time ago, I placed

the lovely shawl which you

knitted for me

on the back of my computer chair.

 

On some cold nights,

I have  put the shawl around me

as I typed on my computer.

Most often, I just enjoy having it

draped over the back of the computer chair

to dress it up a little

to remind me

my writer friend Lynda is with me in

inspiration.

 

Your gifts of books, poetry, and the shawl

just keep on

giving.

 

Warm thanks to you!

 

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From “Thinking of You,” a series of “”found” letter -poems.

“Warm Thanks” e-mail communication from a friend,, May 12, 2021.

Backstory:

This poem is a “found poem” and it was created from an e-mail message I received from a friend.

In a found poem, the poet uses a  text that is non-poetic.  The text is re-arranged into poetic lines, breaks, and spaces.

I have been creating “found poems” from letters, e-mails, newspaper articles, advertisements and junk mail for my entire career. I began writing found poems in my freshman year as I was working for my BFA degree in the mid-to-late 1980s.

As a high school student, I was influenced by the “Beat Poets.”

Published:

MINGLED VOICES 6: INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY 2021

Published April 2022.Copyright June 28, 2021.

Lynda McKinney Lambert

Read MORE about this ANTHOLOGY and six poems by Lynda ~ Here.

Lynda’s April 2022 Newsletter – Read it NOW.

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