From the Professor’s Journal – If We Live Long Enough (poem)
Walking by Inner Vision presents:
A Poem – From the Professor’s Journal –
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
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If We Live Long Enough (Poem)
BY LYNDA MCKINNEY LAMBERT
Apple trees will be loaded with fruit.
Bountiful fall harvests will
carry us through winter’s storms.
Despite bleak predictions that
everything will turn topside-turvy,
feast your eyes on higher ground.
Gardens are a gift from
Heaven, like a Matisse painting
if we live long enough.
Just remember to
keep a faithful watch.
Listen to wind-chimes on the porch
marking our place on winds of time.
Not to be forgotten, or
overtaken by fears, We were
planted by the Holy Spirit, long ago.
Quietly, sealed in Jesus, before created time. I
rub my eyes in wonder, to
see towering trees made by our
thirst-quenching, Master-Gardener.
Unexpected storms always abate.
Vivid. Vulnerable. Victorious.
We sit in the golden global glory
“X’ marks our spot in the sky.
Yesterday’s visions led us to
Zion, our eternal home.
–
©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2023. All rights reserved.
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Lynda’s Bio:
Lynda McKinney Lambert is an award-winning artist, teacher, and author. During her years as a tenured professor at Geneva College, she taught studio art, English literature, and lectured in art history. Lynda created a travel/study month-long course, “Drawing and Writing in Salzburg” that she taught each summer in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Czech Republic until her retirement in 2008.
Her first public art exhibit was in 1976. Her art is in private and public collections.
Lynda’s publishing career began in 1980. She currently has five published books available at Amazon and other booksellers.
She tends her flower gardens, walks her dog, Miss Mitchell, cares for her SEVEN cats.
Lynda is married to Bob, who was her high-school sweetheart.The couple have been married for sixty-two years. Lynda and Bob have five children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.