Travel Journal & Photos
Use your JOURNAL ENTRIES & PHOTOGRAPHS to inspire your MEMORY.
ORGANIZE your NOTES & PHOTOS this month
October is a great month to get organized before the holiday madness gets you sidetracked.
TRAVEL JOURNAL & PHOTOS
Write a poem!
I wrote this poem 9 years after my last trip to Prague, Czech Republic.
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The Moldau
In Which I Dream of Vitava
Always in mid-summer dreams, I amble
Beside warm surging waters in a distant land where the
City of Spires notices my soul’s passage
Drifting, light-rippling movements
Evoke the flow of the Moldau River
From its source in the forests of Bohemia
Gliding, twisting, turning, singing
Homeland legends return in tact
I’m drawn into patriotic emotions
Juxtaposed over a rural landscape
Kept in rhythm by a recurring melody
Love of Homeland splashes from two
Mountain springs; one warm, one cold
Now joined, become a mighty tributary
Orchestrated musings of white water days
Postcards from Prague cannot contain it as I
Quietly I sip Czech coffee at a street café
Regal hymns flood my thoughts
Smetana’s symphonic poems
Telling stories like a recurring theme, he
Urges the morning to break into dissonance!
Vigorous second movement with a horn melody
Woke up the dreamers bathed in the morning light
X Is always a ghost-note the Moldau sings in between
Yesterday or tomorrow, where the final two-note chord
Zig-zagged away from the gentle arpeggio of dawn.
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Inspired by Vitava, my favorite symphony by Smetana, Czech composer.
By Lynda McKinney Lambert, April 6, 2016
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Photos &Poem by Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2017. All Rights Reserved.
Lynda McKinney Lambert, lives and works in the small rural Village of Wurtemburg in Western PA.
She is a retired professor of fine arts and humanities: Geneva College Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
She authored the book, Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, Kota Press. It features poetry and creative non-fiction essays she wrote during her summers while living in Salzburg, Austria where she taught for many years.
Her 2nd book is Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems. DLD Books, 2017.
Lynda is working on her 3rd book for publication in 2018.
Themes in her work: the arts, literature and humanities
My Website: Meet Lynda Lambert
My Author’s Page: Click Here!
This essay is the property of Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright, December 19, 2017.
Lynda in her Meditation Garden in PA
Lynda McKinney Lambert lives in the rural Village of Wurtemburg in western Pennsylvania. She writes poetry and creative non-fiction essays. She retired from teaching as professor of fine arts and humanities at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA.
Lambert’s first book, Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage, Kota Press.
Her second book is Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, published in 2017 by DLD Books, Denver, Colorado.
Lynda’s 3rd book, Star Signs, is currently in development for publication in 2018.
Her work appears in Spirit Fire Review; Indiana Voice Journal; Magnets & Ladders; Stylist; Breath & Shadow; Wordgathering; The Avocet; Proverse Hong Kong Poetry Prize Anthology 2017; Naturewriting; Plum Tree Tavern; Behind our Eyes: A Second Look – Anthology; and other literary journals and anthologies.
She is also an actively exhibiting fiber artist.
Major themes in her creative works are Christian faith and history; Nature; Mythology; Art and Literary History.
Lynda McKinney lost most of her sight in 2007 due to Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. She creates her art work and writing projects via the use of technologies for the blind.
Visit her Blog: www.lyndalambert.com
View her Author’s Page: www.dldbooks.com/lyndalambert
Contact her: llambert@zoominternet.net
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams – awake.” Henry David Thoreau
Announcing: my new book
Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems
Available NOW!
Walking by Inner Vision
Stories & Poems
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
DLD Books – 2017
Photo by Heidi Murrin for The Tribune Review, Taken at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January 2014: BEST OF SHOW in the Ellwood City Juried Arts Festival in 2015; First Place at the InSights 17 exhibition in Louisville,KY in October 2017.
Lynda McKinney Lambert, Author
104 River Road
Ellwood City, PA 16117