{"id":824,"date":"2015-03-28T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyndalambert.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2015-04-24T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:14:41","slug":"write-a-poem-about-a-lesson-you-wer-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/write-a-poem-about-a-lesson-you-wer-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"the Lesson_Writing Assignment # 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lesson: “When My Daughter Cuts the Roses”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing Assignment #10 – The Lesson<\/p>\n

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

I had some great news today!\u00a0 The editor of \u201cMagnets and Ladders Literary Magazine\u201d\u00a0\u00a0notified me that one of my two poems to be published in the forthcoming Spring\/Summer issue has received a 2nd<\/sup> place PRIZE for Poetry.<\/p>\n

The title of the poem is:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen My Daughter Cuts the Roses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the BACK STORY to the Poem:<\/p>\n

Our daughter, Ilsa Barry, visited us last November. I had a bouquet of fresh flowers on the dining room table. She glanced at the bouquet of roses \u00a0and said, “The water in the vase is cloudy. I will change the water for you.” \u00a0 We walked out to the kitchen sink with the bouquet, and she began teaching me how to take proper care of a fresh bouquet of flowers. \u00a0She emphasized how to keep the water fresh and how to cut the stems of the flowers so that they would last long in the vase.<\/p>\n

As I watched her going through the process, she explained what she was doing. \u00a0I took mental notes.\u00a0 Later, my memories of that afternoon lesson came flooding into my thoughts as I wrote a poem.<\/p>\n

The POINT here is this:<\/p>\n

The most basic and mundane activity can be transformed into a poem.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

\u201cWhen My Daughter Cuts the Roses\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My daughter looked<\/p>\n

at the bouquet of fresh roses<\/p>\n

noticed two of them were drooping.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me show you how to trim the roses<\/p>\n

so they stay fresh and strong.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her hands held the roses tenderly<\/p>\n

one-by-one, trimmed off extra\u00a0 leaves<\/p>\n

\u201cThese will make the water stink,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0 found\u00a0 scissors\u00a0 in the drawer<\/p>\n

put the roses in a bowl of tepid water<\/p>\n

held each stem under water<\/p>\n

sliced\u00a0 them all, diagonally –<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I cut the rose under the water,<\/p>\n

little bubbles of air come to the surface.<\/p>\n

Now, when the rose inhales<\/p>\n

it will only breathe water into it,<\/p>\n

it won\u2019t fill up with air.<\/p>\n

The living water inside the stems<\/p>\n

gives longer life to each rose.\u201d<\/p>\n

She carried the freshened flowers<\/p>\n

In the tall glass vase<\/p>\n

back to the center of the dining room table<\/p>\n

darkest \u00a0crimson buds, sunny yellow petals,<\/p>\n

deep green fern leaves<\/p>\n

and a frilly white carnation.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

by Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2014. All rights reserved..<\/p>\n

Published: \u201cMagnets and Ladders Literay Magazine\u201d Spring\/Summer Issue, 2015.<\/p>\n

Won 2nd Prize for Poetry.<\/p>\n

Visit this link to read the latest issue of “Magnets and Ladders Literary Magazine.” \u00a0 www.magnetsandladders.or<\/a><\/p>\n

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Walking by Inner Vision Journal \u2013 Writing Assignment #10:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Think about something you learned how to do. Did someone teach it to you?<\/p>\n

In your journal, I want you to record every aspect of how you learned to do something. As you see in my poem, it can be a very simple task.\u00a0 Perhaps you learned something recently \u2013 or \u2013 maybe it was a lesson learned a long time ago. Spend some time today thinking about it.<\/p>\n

What was the occasion for the lesson?<\/p>\n

Who was teaching it to you?<\/p>\n

Where were you at the time?<\/p>\n

What was significant enough for you to remember it?<\/p>\n

Add any other information that comes to your mind.<\/p>\n

Write your poem in free verse.<\/p>\n

Speak it out loud as you write \u2013 and several times during the writing process.<\/p>\n

Listen carefully to the sounds you have made.<\/p>\n

Make the changes you need to make to allow the voice of the poem to relate the lesson and the experience of that special time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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