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Poem:  Every Day is a Holiday

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Every Day is a Holiday

every day is a holiday

I’m on vacation at home

look around – you will see me

painting postcards in my studio

splashing yellow-green brush strokes

pictures made with prayers of gratitude

my imagination in flight

living verticality every day

today is the best day

sans clock, sans phone, sans timeline

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Poem by, Lynda McKinney Lambert. June 8, 2024.

©Lynda McKinney Lambert, `2025.  All rights reserved.

This poem is Published in :

_Mingled Voices 9, International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology, 2024.

International Poetry Prize Anthology, 2024.

29 April 2025

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My Inspiration for this poem

During my years of  teaching at Geneva College,

I had the joy of taking students to a number of European countries every summer.

There,  I heard the words, “We are on holiday.”

I loved their idea of a holiday, where they went to quiet places and rested and enjoyed the mountains or the rivers, and all of nature.   It is quite the opposite of what we Americans do when we are on vacation.  I like the European concept of a holiday much better than the sizzling hustle  and  frantic bustle of a vacation on crowded and noisy beaches, and hopping from one place to another to see  how many things we can see and do in a day.  We do the opposite of what the Europeans do, and we pay a price for our lack of respect for our bodies that need rest  and a concentration of wellness instead of  business.  My poem indicates how I feel about the idea of being on a holiday.

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