{"id":12658,"date":"2022-09-26T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2024-09-07T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:26:48","slug":"poem-from-the-professors-journal-musings-on-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/poem-from-the-professors-journal-musings-on-e\/","title":{"rendered":"From lynda’s Journal ~ Musings on E"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Lynda’s Journal<\/h3>\n

Musings on E<\/em><\/h4>\n
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The Poem: Musings on “E”
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Musings on \u201cE\u201d<\/p>\n

By Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2016<\/p>\n

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A musical score that begins on the note of \u201cE\u201d is esoteric<\/p>\n

Because this third note in C Major emits<\/p>\n

Cryptic and enigmatic sounds<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you see? I\u2019d give everything to take the<\/p>\n

Easy Pass!<\/p>\n

Forego the electric currents of exuberant poetry –<\/p>\n

Get down and dirty, Girls! Eliminate the end rhymes<\/p>\n

Heave away the elegance of each syllable<\/p>\n

I just want a poem that expels an egg or<\/p>\n

Joins every elongated line with a loud<\/p>\n

Klink or a curve for my envious eyes.<\/p>\n

Link up the endangered nouns to a<\/p>\n

Myriad of enlarged verbal sounds.<\/p>\n

No more economics of musical composition-<\/p>\n

Or exquisite conjunctions! \u00a0My ears<\/p>\n

Pause between the 18th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup>-century of<\/p>\n

Quarter note rests and evocative scales<\/p>\n

Related to the Ancient Greek theory of music<\/p>\n

Stir up the \u201cE\u201d sounds of the lyre and harp<\/p>\n

Tug them taught like elastic bands<\/p>\n

Until those elusive \u201cE\u201d notes<\/p>\n

Venture beyond the elemental lexicon.<\/p>\n

Walk towards East Street where letters \u201cE\u201d or<\/p>\n

\u201cX\u201d are symbols that elucidate something evasive<\/p>\n

Yank these empty letters from the English alphabet!<\/p>\n

\u201cZ\u201dwill represent every elemental consonant in the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert. 2016. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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Published:<\/p>\n

Musings in \u201cE\u201d <\/em>(Abecedarian poem, 2016)<\/p>\n

_<\/strong>Indiana Voice Journal<\/em>, <\/strong>May 4, 2016, Issue #22<\/p>\n

_Magnets & Ladders, Spring\/Summer 2016<\/p>\n

_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems<\/em>, DLD Books, 2017<\/p>\n

_Waling by Inner Vision Blog\/Poem from the Professor\u2019s Journal<\/em>, Sept. 26, 2022.<\/p>\n

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The Backstory:<\/h4>\n

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\u00a0I am doing two things in this poem.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, this is an ABECEDARIAN POEM, which means that every line begins with a letter of the alphabet.\u00a0 Read the first word of every line, and you will see how it moves from A to Z.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, in addition to the Abecedarian FORM, I am playing with the letter “E” and words that begin with “E.”\u00a0 I begin with MUSIC as a theme in the poem. You can see this THEME from beginning to end when you do a careful read of the poem.
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As you read the poem, you can see how this all works together. Form, Theme, and Imagination.
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Just for FUN, I wanted to write about the letter “E” and this poem is where that thought took me. Experiment and have FUN with your writing!
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It is as simple as that.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

We can write about anything that comes across our mind.\u00a0 Everything in our world is poem-worthy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is beauty in everything.\u00a0<\/em> Ranier Maria Rilke\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n

Would you like to try writing an ABECEDARIAN POEM?<\/span><\/p>\n

I begin by making a vertical line down my page, starting with \u201cA\u201d and ending with \u201cZ.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Now, it is your turn. Give it a whirl.<\/p>\n

\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My final newsletter for 2022 will be the end of November.<\/p>\n

Thanks for visiting me through the year.<\/p>\n

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

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