Eileen Lamb-Davis

Education

• Graduate - St Helena's Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pa
• Graduate - Bennett Middle & Bennett Sr High Schools in Salisbury, Md.
• Graduate - Catonsville Community College in Catonsville, Md
• Graduate - University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore, Md
• Graduate - Childrens Institute Of Writing in Connecticut

Would love to get my masters - some day...

Hobbies

• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Bowling

Pasttimes

• Reading
• Writing
• Playing with my 2 year old daughter & nine nieces & nephews

Experience

I have worked in Data Processing since I was 13 years old. (When I was 10 if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have told you a commuter pilot. Flying still interests me.)

Narrative for Poem for Peace

I have enjoyed writing since I was ten years old. I only have one short story that I wrote back then. Everything else that I have saved I wrote since my nieces and nephews were born and I wrote them especially for them. I only write poems if I have a special message to get across. Otherwise, poems don't come easily to me.

I have only two published works. They are both poems. The first was a poem to my husband and the second was the poem for PEACE.

The National Poetry Society asked me if I was interested in writing a few lines to contribute to the LONGEST POEM EVER WRITTEN for Peace. It was a week after the United States got involved in Saudi. For many reasons I was very interested and very honored to have the opportunity to contribute to the poem.

My reasons involved:

1. My father, James V. Lamb, II was in the Navy at Pearl Harbor during World War II. He never talked about the war. He did talk about the People he met and about Places that he had been. He lost his best friend at Pearl Harbor.
2. My brother, James V. Lamb, III, was in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. He also talked about People and Places while he was in the Air Force. But, he did not talk about his activity with the Air Force. He did, however, marry a wonderful lady that he met in Spain while in the Air Force. She is from Ireland.
3. Tracy Sellers, friend of my husband's, left for Saudi the week before I was asked to contribute to the Poem for PEACE. He is the Sellers that I mention in the Poem.
4. I was in the process of sending heartwarming letters via Paradox from mothers to their sons in Saudi.

For all of these reasons, I wrote my few verses to be added to the longest Poem ever written for PEACE. I have not read the rest of the poem but I do want to some day. The Poetry Society said that if it were printed out, that it would more than cover a football field. Wow! I can't imagine. It is in the Library of Congress.

Well, best of luck and much success to you all,
Your friend in Salisbury & A.F.A.,
Eileen

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