Lynda’s Journal – Tanka – stony paths
A Poem
stony paths
Lynda’s Journal
©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.
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The Poem
stony paths
disappear beneath my feet
I am the darkness
of ginkgo trees
and indigo skies
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The Backstory
This poem is a perspective of the landscape and my own recognition of time and season in Western Pennsylvania. I live in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains. As I walk my dogs, I am paying attention to every detail, sound, and sight. I want to remember the sensations so I can bring them back home with me. The aspects of nature are so subtle as it mingles with my own body and life.
Life happens in layers of imagery. It is multi-layered, and this sense of the passing time is what I distill in my poetry.
How did this poem make you feel?
Do you have such experiences when you are out in nature?
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Published:
_Spent Blossoms, Edited by Claire Everett, 2015, Tanka Society of America Anthology
_The Weekly Avocet, #263, Dec. 17, 2017
_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Star Signs, 2019
_The Weekly Avocet, #524, Dec. 19, 2022.
_Garden Songs, Walking by Inner Vision Blog, Dec. 26, 2022.
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The Backstory
This poem is a perspective of winter time in Western Pennsylvania where I have lived my entire life. As I walk my dogs, I am paying attention to every detail, sound, and sight.
I focus on the color, red, in my world and in my memories.
I combined memories of people, with our landscape. Life happens in layers of imagery. It is multi-layered, and this sense of the passing of time is what I distill in my poetry.
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Published:
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Read more in my NEW BOOK!
Mock-up #6 : Songs for the Pilgrimage.
Courtesy AllAuthor
BREAKING NEWS
this book is currently in production at Perkins Library, for distribution through the library and through NLS (BARD).
COMING SOON
MY NEW book is a thoughtful and joyous collection of my poetry, stories, memoirs, photography, and reflections from 1985 – 2021.
Songs for the Pilgrimage
©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.
Order the book for Christmas Gifts –
Songs for the Pilgrimage.
Poems, Non-fiction Stories, Journal Entries, Meditations on the
NEW – Songs for the Pilgrimage: Apple Books
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Lynda’s Newsletters & Interviews
Psalms.