Poetry – Forever, Susan Lilly
Lynda McKinney Lambert’s
Walking by Inner Vision Blog
Presents
Forever, Susan Lily
Published in The Pangolin Review
Issue #18 – 30 April 2021 Here
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Forever, Susan Lily
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
Archetypal clusters of Forever Susan Lily
bulbs arrived in the mail
cushioned with hoary moss
dusty bulbs and dry Iris corms.
Every single one will have a winter’s nap.
Forever Susan Asiatic Lilies
glorious manifestations beside
Hyacinth mix of purple and pink.
I imagine them thriving next spring.
Just think, How does Mother Nature
keep bulbs in frozen soil? I know she’s
laughing at winter snowstorms.
My pipe dream endures for
Nature has perfect timing in her
ornate drawers of dreams-come-true.
Purple Dusky Challengers with black beards
quivering and tall.
Representative ambassadors
singing life-force.
That is who you are
underground secrets of winter.
Victorious prize-winners
warbles in secretive clusters.
Xerophytic, ferns asleep in rocks and rubble
yearnings by washed-out pathways when it’s
zero degrees in the sunshine.
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Lynda McKinney Lambert is a retired college professor of fine arts and humanities. Retirement from teaching in 2008 opened the door for her to write full-time. Lynda explores the themes of landscape, mythology, time, pilgrimage, fine arts and literature .
Lynda has five published books. Her work appears in international anthologies and literary magazines . She was nominated for the Skirt Best-of-the-Net Award. Her most recent award is “Special Mention for a body of work (six poems)” by Proverse (Hong Kong) in Mingled Voices5, Anthology, published in April 2021.
NEW ~Songs for the Pilgrimage, 2021
Published April 13, 2021.
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Read more about the Asian lily named, Forever Susan Lily Here
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This article is Courtesy of Lynda McKinney Lambert. Copyright 2021. All Rights Reserved.
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BREAKING NEWS:
Listen to Lynda read her poem at the Spring Reception in Hong Kong. Listen now!
Published:
Mingled Voices 5: International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2020 
Lynda received
Special Mention for a Body of Work
Listen to Lynda read her poem at the Spring Reception in Hong Kong. Listen now!
Spring Reception – Here