{"id":12472,"date":"2025-10-23T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/?p=12472"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:45:59","slug":"from-lyndas-journal_watching-summer-sky_poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/from-lyndas-journal_watching-summer-sky_poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynda’s Journal – #716 – Watching Summer Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Featured today in Lynda\u2019s Journal \u2013 #716<\/span><\/h3>\n

Watching Summer\u00a0 Sky<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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Watching Summer Sky<\/em><\/h4>\n

by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/h3>\n

Date – October 23, 2025<\/h3>\n

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The Poem:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

watching summer sky<\/p>\n

where cloud movements never stop<\/p>\n

white sheep gathering<\/p>\n

across heavenly ambit<\/p>\n

splendor overflows above<\/p>\n

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The Backstory:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

As I walked leisurely with my dog, Miss Mitchell,\u00a0 \u00a0along the edge of the woods, I looked up and saw the sky filled with clouds, and I remembered how it felt as I wrote this poem later that day.<\/p>\n

Most of my poems come to me in ordinary daily life activities.<\/p>\n

It’s a matter of taking time to really look, and to see what is around me in the natural world.<\/p>\n

I take time apart from my daily chores to go outside and just stand awhile searching the sky and landscape.\u00a0 I focus on feeling the atmosphere, moving currents of air, and the scene\u00a0 around me.\u00a0 As a visual artist, I learned that it\u00a0 takes time, and intention, to see the world we live in.\u00a0 This poem is a moment of time as I felt it on a summer day.<\/p>\n

~Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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