From the Professors Journal
Walking by Inner Vision presents:
From the Professor’s Journal –
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
Lynda launched, “Walking by Inner Vision Blog” December 2009.
BREAKING NEWS TODAY:
NEWLY Published in
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Published: Wake-up Call (poem)
by Magnets & Ladders:
Active voices of writers with Disabilities.
Fall/Winter Edition, 2023-4
WAKE-UP CALL
BY LYNDA MCKINNEY LAMBERT
Gentle movements
resting on my shoulder
tender strokes
insistent caresses
secretly urge me to wake up.
Early morning wake-up call
begins in velvety darkness.
sensations of soft- feathered
wing.
My entire body is erect
feels mellifluous pulses
muscles throbbing gently.
Like a Passeri bird
perched amid tangled branches.
I flutter.
Stretch my feet deeper
Into a comforting quilt.
Instinctively, I know
like the nesting songbird,
clutching White Lilac branch
it’s time to wake up.
I reach out, grasp layers
of floral-patterned aqua
percale sheets and
white woven cotton blanket.
My bird-like fingers grasp
silky ribbon binding
beneath willow-green plaid
seersucker bedspread.
My cousin made this
hand-stitched quilt.
Years ago.
“For your birthday,
I made this quilt
in your favorite colors
shades of orange,
designed by Kaffe Fasset.”
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Wake-up Call ©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2023. All rights reserved.
Have you purchased my NEW BOOK?
Songs for the Pilgrimage.
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‘Tis the Season for gifting great books to friends and family…
Songs for the Pilgrimage.
Poems, Non-fiction Stories, Journal Entries, Meditations
NEW – Songs for the Pilgrimage: Apple Books
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Lynda McKinney Lambert
Author of Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems;
first snow, a poetry chapbook; Star Signs: New and Selected Poems; and
Songs for the Pilgrimage, a collection of poems and stories.
I am Looking Forward to 2024
My next book –
Each Day Holds Some Small Joy: Haiku Poems,
is scheduled for publication
on April 1, 2024.
My Mission Statement:
I reveal what is lost, forgotten, and unseen.
Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
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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 loves tending her flower garden, walking her dog, Miss Mitchell, caring for her SEVEN cats, and being with husband, 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.