{"id":4486,"date":"2020-03-16T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2020-03-16T06:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:01:22","slug":"marcharrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/marcharrived\/","title":{"rendered":"March Arrived Like a Capricious Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post #299<\/p>\n

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March Arrived Like a Capricious Cat<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

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Glass wind chimes<\/p>\n

hang<\/p>\n

immovable<\/p>\n

stiff<\/p>\n

shrouded in new snow<\/p>\n

March arrived like a capricious cat<\/p>\n

crouched<\/p>\n

hunkered down, bent over<\/p>\n

spring-loaded, squat<\/p>\n

Changeable!<\/p>\n

Early this morning<\/p>\n

I stepped cautiously through deep snow<\/p>\n

March is the time to follow new dreams<\/p>\n

that arrived in the flurry<\/p>\n

of late winter snowstorms and blizzards<\/p>\n

quietly<\/p>\n

wordless<\/p>\n

yet surging<\/p>\n

inside, beneath layers of trees<\/p>\n

my awakened<\/p>\n

awareness heard songs<\/p>\n

crows called<\/p>\n

across the grey sky<\/p>\n

Sharp, staccato<\/p>\n

melodies<\/p>\n

lyrical<\/p>\n

red-breasted robins sang duets<\/p>\n

together<\/p>\n

hidden<\/p>\n

somewhere beyond, out of sight<\/p>\n

March arrived like a lion today<\/p>\n

swept away my doubts.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Photo of Miss Bessie and Miss Opal – our 2 sister-cats.<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo by Lynda McKinney Lambert.<\/p>\n

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This poem, provided \u00a0today through the courtesy of western Pennsylvania author and artist,<\/p>\n

Lynda McKinney Lambert.<\/p>\n

“March Arrived Like a Capricious Cat”<\/h4>\n

Copyright, 2015. Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/p>\n

All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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Listen to more of Lynda’s Poems: Click here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Western Pennsylvania Author and Artist, Lynda McKinney Lambert shares a about the month of March.
\nLynda captures the feelings of expectation and joy as she looks out her window into the snowy landscape from her home in The Village of Wurtemburg.
\nLynda is an award winning international artist and writer. This poem is from her book, Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems. DLD Books, 2017. This book is a year-long journey through the seasons in 27 essays and 16 poems. Lynda has 4 books for sale on Amazon – check her out.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/2013_March6_MorningWalkSnow.jpg?fit=2736%2C3648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-1am","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3488,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/saturday-sunshine-celebrating-our-successes\/","url_meta":{"origin":4486,"position":0},"title":"Saturday Sunshine: Celebrating Our Successes","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"September 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I received the Fall Edition of Slate & Style a literary Magazine, Published quarterly by the NFB Writer's Division. 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