Walking by Inner Vision presents:

From Llynda’s Journal

 by Lynda McKinney Lambert

NEWLY  Published

in “The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry,” Winter Edition, 2023-4

Editor: Charles Portolano

Poem:

The Chilly Breeze

The chilly breeze

 In the chilly breeze, I

Inspected colorful  fan-shaped leaves

That drifted to the stony ground.

Profound blue-green shades

turned to a golden yellow shower.

We planted the Ginkgo  tree

on a shimmering summer afternoon

when we were young.

+I walk  alone on  winding sidewalk

beside our early  winter garden

touch mahogany-red filagree leaves

of patient Tamukeyama tree.

December splashed cerise

brushstrokes  on each fragile leaf.

Japanese yellow forest grass

Dropped  its slender leaves

for winter’s  respite,

Like taking a siesta in the afternoon.

New growth  always begins  in spring.

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Here’s the Backstory:

This poem was written recently when I was walking around outside in the yard and in the nearby woods at my home in western Pennsylvania. I write about nature as I am experiencing the various seasons.  I also write about thoughts and memories that come to mind as I am observing and appreciating the outdoors.

©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2023. All rights reserved.

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Lynda McKinney Lambert

Author of Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems;

first snow, a poetry chapbook; Star Signs: New and Selected Poems; and

Songs for the Pilgrimage, a collection of poems and stories.

www.lyndalambert.com

My Mission Statement:

I reveal what is lost, forgotten, and  unseen.

Hebrews 11:1

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,  the evidence of things not seen.”

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