Post #239

April 5, 2019

April is National Poetry Month

Day 5:

“ Muddy Hands”

“Muddy Hands”

         by Lynda McKinney Lambert

You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker,

“He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding.”?

~ Isaiah 29:16

Muddy Hands

October 2007;

I suddenly lost most of my eye sight.

I did not know night from day.

I could not see a clock. Time vanished.

I could not find a phone number or dial a phone.

“Normal” was now upside-down days and nights.

I could DREAM.

I could envision wonders.

I could try.  I could try again.

I could pick up a piece of wet clay.

Slowly.

The muddy substance felt like a possibility in my hands.

The clay brought back memories.

My muddy hands began to do the work of remembering.

Muddy hands gave new confidence in me.

Muddy hands brought wholeness.

I took MUD and made treasures.

The wet clay gave me. “Magic Spirit Treasure Boxes” for cherished objects; Wall sculptures to honor the Earth, Nature, and healing of my broken eyes.

I’ll  use my Muddy Hands!

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Photo Below:

Wall Sculpture by Lynda McKinney Lambert

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Lynda McKinney Lambert.  Copyright 2014, 2016, 2019. All rights reserved.

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Previous Publications:

Muddy Hands (2014. Revised 2016, 2019)

Magnets & Ladders, Spring/Summer 2016

Exceptions Journal, Michigan State U. Spring Issue 2016

Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, 2017

Kaleidoscope Literary Magazine, July 2017. Issue #75

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