From Lynda’s Journal ~ Graceful Choreography ~
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From Lynda’s Journal
A Poem and Backstory
Poem: Graceful Choreography
AKA August Mornings
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
This poem received HONORABLE MENTION and appeared in the new edition of Magnets and Ladders:
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AWARDED HONORABLE MENTION
Magnets and Ladders
Active Voices of Writers with Disabilities
Spring/Summer 2022
GRACEFUL CHOREOGRAPHY
BY LYNDA MCKINNEY LAMBERT
The first announcements of shifting seasons
begin to materialize early on August mornings
Under-stated changes happened slowly
when the purple Pokeweed hangs in long clusters
beneath hearty leaves along the well-worn pathway.
Grasses in the meadow display delicate daisy clusters
urgently beckon me to pay attention today
Tread lightly through the grass.
I cast my attention towards the Queen of Summer
Standing in the meadow,
I remain motionless, wide-eyed, surrounded
as the celadon-green stems
display the Queen Ann’s Lace in full bloom.
These graceful ballet dancer’s hover
on the warm August breeze.
Orchestrations in rural fields and along roadsides
They each remember to arrive at this time every year
Nothing can prevent the shifting waves of change
I’ll wait patiently for the blue Chicory to join the dance
In her wisdom, Nature placed them together on a stage
floral dancers on a late-summer stage.
Graceful choreography.
Give them a standing ovation.
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©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.
Publication Notes:
Graceful Choreography was published as August Morning, in The Weekly Avocet, August 2017 and as Graceful Choreography in Star Signs: New and Selected Poems, KDP, 2019. Free Sample – Click Here
August Afternoon was a Poem and Journal Entry from Aug. 1, 2017.
Re-named: Graceful Choreography, 2019.
***First Published in 2002 ***
_Barton, Cooper, Kerstetter, Lambert. Now we are three – Four Pennsylvania Poets, Chapbook (2002)
_The Weekly Avocet #246. August 27, 2017
Thank you to the Publisher: Charles Portolano for publishing this poem!
The Avocet, a Journal of Nature Poetry
Charles Portolano, Editor/Publisher
P.O. Box 19186
Fountain Hills, AZ 85269
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See first publication on Walking by Inner Vision Blog and I included the BACKSTORY – the original notes I made before I wrote this poem.