{"id":12474,"date":"2024-09-02T05:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:09:31","slug":"from-lyndas-journal-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/from-lyndas-journal-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"ynda’s Journal – Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynda’s Journal – Haiku<\/h3>\n

by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/h3>\n

Date – 2022<\/h3>\n

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The following haiku and poem of mine were published last year in the November 14th<\/sup> issue of The Weekly Avocet. This issue features work by members of Behind Our Eyes<\/span><\/a>, a writers\u2019 organization to which I belong. We recently produced a recording of this issue, which you can download here<\/span><\/a> along with the issue in pdf format. Some of us read our own poems in this recording while other work was narrated by volunteer readers. If you enjoy my haiku and poem pasted below, please click the above link to read and or listen to more wonderful work from this issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Backstory:<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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