{"id":5244,"date":"2019-05-16T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T23:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2019-08-03T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T12:44:02","slug":"great-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/great-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Great-grandmother sings little songs – Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Today, as I worked on some submissions of poetry for a literary magazine, <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

I stopped for a time – <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

to work on a “little poem.”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

This poem started out as a TANKA, but\u00a0 eventually \u00a0I wanted to do something different and turned it into a Modern Lyrical Poem.<\/p>\n

I’ve never known any of my Great-grandmothers. They all died very young.<\/p>\n

In fact, I\u00a0 only knew 1 maternal grand mother for a little while in my life.<\/p>\n

I imagine what a Great-grandmother \u00a0might have been like. I think of her a lot. It seems like I feel all of my grandmothers \u00a0when I am outside walking in the woods or along the creek bank, or standing in the meadow staring down at the rippling water. \u00a0Even late at night, when I stand in silence to feel the sky. My whole body can feel them walking with me.<\/p>\n

How about you?<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

Did you know your Great-grandmother?<\/h3>\n

If you wrote a poem about her, what would she be doing and where would you see it?<\/p>\n

Mine sings and she loves to walk in the woods along the creek.\u00a0 She catches fish for her husband and children to eat;<\/p>\n

and takes her grand-children swimming at night in the creek, when the moon is full.<\/p>\n

She is one with Nature and she holds the memories of a thousand summers \u00a0in her body.<\/p>\n

In my imagination.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Here it is. It is the perfect theme for May, isn’t it!<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

“great-grandmother sings little songs”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

great-grandmother sings little songs<\/p>\n

moves beneath\u00a0 wet hemlock boughs<\/p>\n

on the ridge overlooking a rushing creek<\/p>\n

her feet slide over damp spring leaves<\/p>\n

she feels the summer breeze<\/p>\n

on the slippery \u00a0pathway through the woods<\/p>\n

she knows every\u00a0 leaf, bark and branch<\/p>\n

by name<\/p>\n

glances into the curly willow tree<\/p>\n

responds to screaming crows<\/p>\n

gathered for lunch<\/p>\n

she looks at me and whispers<\/p>\n

“We may catch some fish this afternoon.”<\/p>\n

tonight we will<\/p>\n

bathe in light of full Strawberry Moon.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Copyright 2019. Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/p>\n

Visit my Authors Page at Amazon:\u00a0 Yes. I want to be AMAZED.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania author, Lynda McKinney Lambert says: :
\nI’ve never known any of my Great-grandmothers. <\/p>\n

I imagine what they might have been like. In my poem, I create the Great-Grandmother of my imagination.”<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2706,"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_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-5244","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\/2017\/07\/Essay_17_Saturday-Morning-Trawling_Photo_Connie-view.jpg?fit=5184%2C3888&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-1mA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6509,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/tritina-poem\/","url_meta":{"origin":5244,"position":0},"title":"A Poem-a-Day: A Spring-Cleaned Song","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"April 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I heard an invisible performance of bird song somewhere above tree tops I listened to the music of spring","rel":"","context":"In "#Trusting God"","block_context":{"text":"#Trusting God","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/category\/trusting-god\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20_April1_Forsythig8_with-River-Road-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20_April1_Forsythig8_with-River-Road-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20_April1_Forsythig8_with-River-Road-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20_April1_Forsythig8_with-River-Road-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20_April1_Forsythig8_with-River-Road-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C677&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9929,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/afternoon-embroidery-lesson-poem\/","url_meta":{"origin":5244,"position":1},"title":"From Lynda’s Journal ~Afternoon Embroidery Lesson ~","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"May 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Poem, \"Afternoon Embroidery Lesson.\" American Author, Lynda McKinney Lambert shares this poem and the recording of it by California actor, Lillian Yves. 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