{"id":13363,"date":"2022-11-21T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/?p=13363"},"modified":"2024-09-07T19:15:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T23:15:24","slug":"a-poem-from-the-professors-journal_a-song-for-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/a-poem-from-the-professors-journal_a-song-for-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lynda’s Journal – A Song for Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Lynda’s Journal<\/h3>\n

\u00a0A Song for Austria
\n<\/em><\/h2>\n

Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/h4>\n

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The Poem<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

A Song for Austria<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you sing for me a song for Austria?<\/p>\n

Sing about papal treasures<\/p>\n

and jewels in the golden monstranz<\/p>\n

inside the Salzburg Cathedral.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I remember\u00a0 the sounds<\/p>\n

of\u00a0 bombs dropping<\/p>\n

and fires that blazed<\/p>\n

when this\u00a0 building was destroyed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Take me on ancient paths<\/p>\n

that Celts and Romans used to walk.<\/p>\n

Let me see signs along the way<\/p>\n

and taste salt inside the mountain.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Can you sing about golden angels<\/p>\n

carved in wooden altars?<\/p>\n

or goats on the Alpine hills?<\/p>\n

and horses that pull the wagons?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I desire to listen to the waters of Mondsee<\/p>\n

as I watch sailboats on the lake<\/p>\n

and the silence of the absent souls<\/p>\n

that rises from ancient bones in Halstatt.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I will lay back my head and watch the mountaintops<\/p>\n

as you sing of distant roads<\/p>\n

that meander through lush green hills<\/p>\n

as we turn to begin the long ride home.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

The Backstory<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

I wrote this poem from writings in my travel journal. Austria, 1998.<\/p>\n

This was the first summer that I took students from Geneva College for a travel\/study course, Drawing and Writing in Salzburg.<\/em><\/p>\n

I combined elements of places, people, landscape and memory. Life happens in layers of imagery. It is multi-layered. I sense the passing of time and the vast history that left fragments behind over the centuries. I distill\u00a0 these thoughts in my poetry.<\/p>\n

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Published:<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

First published in Four Pennsylvania Poets,<\/em> a chapbook created with my three poetry friends. We met monthly for approximately eighteen years. We celebrated birthdays and holidays together at our meetings and we read our work and had conversations about what we were doing in our writing.<\/p>\n

Ida (Danae) Barton, Beaver County Poet Laureate.<\/p>\n

Jean Cooper, wrote special topic articles for a local newspaper.<\/p>\n

June Molohon Kerstetter, earned degrees in Fine Art and Journalism.<\/p>\n

Lynda McKinney Lambert, Professor of fine arts and humanities.<\/p>\n

I am the surviving\u00a0 member of this group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Publications:<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

A Song of Austria,<\/em> poem<\/p>\n

_Four Pennsylvania Poets,<\/em> Barton, Cooper, Kerstetter, Lambert. Chapbook.<\/p>\n

_Lambert, Lynda. Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage<\/em>. Kota Press.\u00a0 2002.<\/p>\n

_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Songs for the Pilgrimage, 2021.<\/p>\n

_Lambert, Lynda McKinney.\u00a0 Walking by Inner Vision Blog, November 21, 2022.<\/p>\n

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*<\/p>\n

Read more in my NEW BOOK!<\/h2>\n
\n

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Mock-up #6 : Songs for the Pilgrimage.
\nCourtesy AllAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BREAKING NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

this book is currently in production at Perkins Library, for distribution\u00a0 through the library and through NLS (BARD).<\/p>\n

COMING SOON<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n
\n

MY NEW book is a thoughtful and joyous collection\u00a0 of my poetry, stories, memoirs, photography, and reflections from 1985 \u2013 2021.<\/p>\n

Songs for the Pilgrimage<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Order the book for Christmas Gifts \u2013<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Songs for the Pilgrimage.
\nPoems, Non-fiction Stories, Journal Entries, Meditations on the<\/p>\n

NEW<\/strong> \u2013 Songs for the Pilgrimage<\/strong>:<\/em>\u00a0 Apple Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda\u2019s books at Bookshop.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda\u2019s e-Books at Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n

Lynda\u2019s Books at Amazon<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/h3>\n

Lynda\u2019s Newsletters & Interviews<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

Psalms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2022. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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