{"id":906,"date":"2015-05-08T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyndalambert.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2024-09-08T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T14:43:07","slug":"from-lyndas-journal_steel-mills-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/from-lyndas-journal_steel-mills-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lynda’s Journal ~ Write a Zip Code Poem~"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I updated and published this article on Sunday, September 8, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Let’s do something that is easy and fun. Let’s write a “Zip Code Poem.”
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Anyone can do this!
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This project is called The Zip Code Poem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are your options – Choose one:<\/p>\n

_Use the zip code of a place where you live.<\/p>\n

_use a place you would like to live.<\/p>\n

_use a place you want to visit.<\/p>\n

_Use a place you have visited in the past.<\/p>\n

Note: If the zip code has a zero in it, you can leave a blank line.<\/p>\n

Another way to represent the “zero” in a zip code could be to repeat the line above the “zero.” \u00a0Be creative and you may even think of another way you want to show the “zero” in your poem.<\/p>\n

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My example is below:<\/p>\n

I live 2 miles away from\u00a0 a small rural city – Ellwood City, PA 16117<\/p>\n

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I grew up here and have spent most of my life near\u00a0 Ellwood City, in a small village called Wurtemburg. Our post office zip code is the same as Ellwood City.<\/p>\n

My ancestors settled in Pennsylvania in 1730.<\/p>\n

Ellwood City was the number one producer of stainless steel in America..<\/p>\n

My father, William (Bill) McKinney,\u00a0 was a steelworker in\u00a0 our\u00a0 western Pennsylvania rural city. I dedicate this poem to my father, and all the men who labored to produce steel\u00a0 for the entire world.<\/p>\n

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How I wrote this poem:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

First, I focused on those \u00a0steel town images that knew intimately as a child \u00a0and as I see them every day. \u00a0By the early 1980s this state was devastated by the closing of almost every steel mill – every city and town along the many rivers is a landscape of abandoned steel mills.<\/p>\n

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I used the syllable count for the zip code numbers: 1 6 1 1 7<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I focused on 4 words to signify the history of the steel mills in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

steel, mills, steal, still<\/h4>\n

I chose to CENTER my lines…<\/p>\n

_I wrote a Zip Code Poem about<\/p>\n

Ellwood City, PA 16117<\/h5>\n

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“steel”<\/p>\n

by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/p>\n

steel<\/p>\n

abandoned rusting mills<\/p>\n

stand<\/p>\n

still<\/p>\n

stainless \u00a0bargain priced cold steal<\/p>\n

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Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2015 and 2024.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

See More!<\/a><\/p>\n

Email: riverwoman@zoominternet.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Lynda’s Journal –
\nDo you know what a Zip Code poem is?
\nIn Lynda’s Journal, she gives the little steps to writing a poem that is easy and fun to do.<\/p>\n

She writes a poem about her life in a steel mill town in western Pennsylvania.
\nBy the early 1980s this state was devastated by the closing of almost every steel mill – every city and town along the many rivers is a landscape of abandoned steel mills.<\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"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":"From Lynda's Journal, Lets Write a Zip Code Poem _ \r\n\r\nBy the early 1980s this state was devastated by the closing of almost every steel mill - every city and town along the many rivers is a landscape of abandoned steel mills.","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-906","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\/2015\/05\/Blog15_WBIV_May8_ZipCodePoem_PHOTO1.jpg?fit=246%2C205&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-eC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1577,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/walking-by-inner-vision-personal-journal\/","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":0},"title":"Walking by Inner Vision Personal Journal","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"January 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Walking by Inner vision - a ONE YEAR JOURNEY with Lynda McKinney Lambert. \"With each short \"lesson\" I have created a special \"Writing Assignment\" to go with it.\"","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\/2016\/01\/PR_TracksonSand.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PR_TracksonSand.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PR_TracksonSand.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PR_TracksonSand.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/PR_TracksonSand.jpg?fit=1200%2C792&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11089,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/poem-a-togetherness-poem-from-the-professors-journal\/","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":1},"title":"From Lynda’s Journal ~ A Togetherness Poem ~","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"August 15, 2022","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Get the SCOOP on the BACKSTORY behind the poem. 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