From Lynda’s Journal

~ After Thinking About the Year ~ Poem

Note:

I wrote this poem for National Poetry Month, April 1, 2024..

National Poetry Month  begins today, April 1, 2025.

  This year, 2025, I am doing something NEW.

Why?  I’ve entered my Past Publications VAULT, and I am bringing past published poems to my blog this year.

For me, 2025, is National  Poetry YEAR.  I  will be posting poems from my Past Publications VAULT – from 1980 to the Present.

  2025 is a milestone year –

FORTY -FIVE  YEARS

of writing and publishing my stories & poems world-wide.

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The Poem:

After thinking about  the Year

After thinking about  the Year

before breakfast today I

contemplate the vacant gravel

driveway as year-end holidays ended.

Everyone departed for home.

First , I thought of those who

greet the day before dawn,

hustle  through  heavy traffic on

Interstate 79 north,  towards Pittsburgh,

just an  hour away.

Kentucky daughter  and her family

lingered another day  longer.

Maryland son left a day early after

Nerve-wracking  shopping adventure.

Our roots are deep here in western

Pennsylvania  where

quality of life is abundant.

Remembering our dinner  in

sea green dining room, grandma’s

tablecloth of bottle-green linen

under  her exquisite

vintage field of

white crochet lace flowers

X-mas hemlock tree remains in the corner

years of family photos  on tables and walls

zealously displayed year-round.

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©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2024 and 2025.

I  TRUST God’s GIFTS in my life.

My One Word for 2025 is TRUST.

Below is Lynda’s Bio as it will appear  in the summer of 2025 in

Food, Flowers, Medicine: And Other Gifts From the Garden, Anthology, 2025

More details about this exciting new book publication by The Wild Librarian Press,  will be announced soon as we come closer to publication day.

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Lynda McKinney Lambert writes and creates visual art from her vintage home in the Village of Wurtemburg, in Western Pennsylvania. She writes poetry and personal nonfiction essays. She currently has six published books available at all retail booksellers. Her artworks have appeared in international exhibitions, including Japan, New Guinea, Austria, and the United States.  Lynda retired from her position as Professor of Fine Art and Humanities at Geneva College in 2008 due to profound sight loss. She invites readers to discover the subtle nuances  and beauty of a physical and spiritual world as she weaves strands from history, nature, and her personal life experiences.

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Thank you for your visit .

For me, 2025, is National  Poetry YEAR.  Join me, if you like.

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