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#Poem ~ A Dream of Drawing in the Dark ~ #From the Professor’s Journal

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we now have a very early twilight and night descending. By 5:30 pm, it’s dark!  It makes no sense to me to do this time change – we still get up in the dark, and now, we have one less hour in our afternoon before it gets dark. In my writing over the decades, darkness is a recurring theme. I focus on dark and darkness a lot in all seasons and it is a metaphor that shows up consistently in my poetry often.

I wrote this poem about drawing one night when I was in my room at  a farm house, Bachmannhof , in Grödig, Austria. I lived there every summer for fourteen years.

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#Poem ~ #From the Professor’s Journal ~ #Musings on E

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A Poem #From the Professor’s Journal by  #Lynda McKinney Lambert September 26, 2022     The Poem: Musings on “E”     Musings on “E” By Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2016   A musical score that begins on the note of … Continue reading →

Poem ~ Graceful Choreography ~ From the Professor’s Journal

Lynda McKinney Lambert - American Author

American Poet, Lynda McKinney Lambert shares a poem and BACKSTORY.
Professor Lambert shares the history of a poem from the initial jotting in her journal, Lynda describes in detail the landscape as she stood in the middle of it, observing the details of an afternoon in August. Lynda’s background in education is evident in the way she describes the making of the poem. She is an award-winning poet and visual artist whose work appears internationally in literary journals, books. anthologies, and art exoproteomes. Her paintings and mixed-media art works have appeared in nearly 500 exhibitions in gallery and museum shows.

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