Poem ~ “Warm Thanks”~ From the Professor’s Journal
Walking by Inner Vision
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A Poem and Backstory
From the Professor’s Journal
Mingled Voices 6
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“Warm Thanks”
©Lynda McKinney Lambert
I have been wanting to tell you
thinking of you daily is easy
some time ago, I placed
the lovely shawl which you
knitted for me
on the back of my computer chair.
On some cold nights,
I have put the shawl around me
as I typed on my computer.
Most often, I just enjoy having it
draped over the back of the computer chair
to dress it up a little
to remind me
my writer friend Lynda is with me in
inspiration.
Your gifts of books, poetry, and the shawl
just keep on
giving.
Warm thanks to you!
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From “Thinking of You,” a series of “”found” letter -poems.
“Warm Thanks” e-mail communication from a friend,, May 12, 2021.
Backstory:
This poem is a “found poem” and it was created from an e-mail message I received from a friend.
In a found poem, the poet uses a text that is non-poetic. The text is re-arranged into poetic lines, breaks, and spaces.
I have been creating “found poems” from letters, e-mails, newspaper articles, advertisements and junk mail for my entire career. I began writing found poems in my freshman year as I was working for my BFA degree in the mid-to-late 1980s.
As a high school student, I was influenced by the “Beat Poets.”
Published:
MINGLED VOICES 6: INTERNATIONAL PROVERSE POETRY PRIZE ANTHOLOGY 2021
Published April 2022.Copyright June 28, 2021.
Lynda McKinney Lambert
Read MORE about this ANTHOLOGY and six poems by Lynda ~ Here.
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