{"id":8739,"date":"2021-04-30T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=8739"},"modified":"2021-04-30T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:04:25","slug":"mingled-voices5-annual-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/mingled-voices5-annual-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry – Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking by Inner Vision Blog<\/span><\/h1>\n

by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

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I gather ingredients beneath snow patches<\/p>\n

in my poker-faced winter garden<\/p>\n

frozen nouns and crystalized verbs that<\/p>\n

crunch beneath my purple boots<\/p>\n

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The large blue bowl will hold<\/p>\n

a plentiful, colorful virtual spring salad<\/p>\n

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I slice crisp winter onions<\/p>\n

mix with fresh-washed adjectives<\/p>\n

combine good-looking spinach with<\/p>\n

roasted red peppers and water chestnuts<\/p>\n

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Mix verdant green-leaf lettuce<\/p>\n

with active verbs:<\/p>\n

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must, should, ought to, have to,<\/p>\n

shred, rip, and tear tender leaves<\/p>\n

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Cubed tofu fried with whole walnuts<\/p>\n

sizzled in extra-virgin olive oil<\/p>\n

add some piquant words. Are you hungry yet?!<\/p>\n

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Sliced organic carrots enhance juicy tomato wedges.<\/p>\n

Drizzle some succulent sentences over our poetic salad.<\/p>\n

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Cauliflower florets provide contrast between stanzas.<\/p>\n

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I plucked fresh wild mushrooms this morning<\/p>\n

included a pinch of fresh oregano and parsley<\/p>\n

added a smidgeon of sea salt and black pepper punctuation<\/p>\n

buttered croutons added texture to end-rhymes<\/p>\n

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Sprinkled lightly with white wine vinegar<\/p>\n

enhanced with pimento-stuffed green olives.<\/p>\n

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For the enjoyment of my cybernetic friends.<\/p>\n

I offer my virtual spring salad –<\/p>\n

the poetry of life tossed in a blue bowl<\/p>\n

*<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Courtesy of Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/p>\n

Listen to Lynda read her poem at the Spring Reception in \u00a0Hong Kong. Listen now!<\/a><\/p>\n

Published:<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mingled Voices 5: International Proverse Poetry Prize<\/em> <\/strong>Anthology<\/span> 2020\u00a0 <\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00a0Lynda received<\/span> <\/em><\/h2>\n

Special Mention for a Body of Work<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

Lynda has 6 poems in this collection.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Mingled Voices5\u00a0 Anthology,<\/em><\/span> April 2021<\/h2>\n

”<\/p>\n

An INVITATION TO<\/span><\/p>\n

THE VIRTUAL PROVERSE SPRING RECEPTION 2021<\/p>\n

Proverse Hong Kong, <\/span>Publishers;<\/span><\/p>\n

Administrators of the International Proverse Prize for unpublished (book-length) fiction, non-fiction or poetry<\/p>\n

and the International Proverse Poetry Prize (single poems);<\/p>\n

The Virtual Proverse Spring Reception, Lynda presented her poem at this reception in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lynda McKinney Lambert is one of the SELECTED POETS\u00a0 –<\/p>\n

LISTEN to Lynda re4ad\u00a0 Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad.\u00a0<\/strong> Here!<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Poets featured in the Anthology are \u00a0from Australia, Chile, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the Czech Republic, the UK, the USA.<\/p>\n

\"Onions<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pennsylvania poet, Lynda McKinney Lambert, reads her award-winning poem, Preparations for a Virtual Spring Salad. Lynda received a “Special Mention Award for a Body of Work,” by Proverse (Hong Kong. The reception for the announcement of winning poets was in Hong Kong. You can listen to lynda reading one of her poems at the reception – video on Youtube included in this article. <\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8900,"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-8739","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\/2021\/04\/pexels-photo-5108610.jpeg?fit=867%2C1300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-2gX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8905,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions\/8905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}