Poems by Linda Imbler
1. Fresh Blue
We may be perennial, but not undying.
We’re dead before conception,
inanimate after living.
Or, perhaps we’ll be sitting in a way station
where all transitions
of place and time happen,
and we’ll change into something
wonderful and new
and more in line with our dreams,
as we travel to our new beginning,
with past memories erased.
Yet, why wait until after death to do better?
Do we really need to wait
to become what we want to be now?
2. Mad Business
The mad business of crowds silenced,
every house seems dark at the door.
Folding flames of candles dissolve,
life choices made in full despair.
The latest death knell has been forged,
the slack coils of un-wrung hands.
The whispering midnight nevermore loud,
life choices made in full despair.
Crash of thunder,
gone in a flash,
life choices made in full despair.
Creepy, crawly prohibitions,
mythical calm lips of the patient.
Unskilled senility
grows around life choices
made in full despair.
3. The Most Beautiful Life
The only thing needed to improve the world:
To read and reread the book of love,
to remember the most beautiful things we do,
and how we do them in the most beautiful way.
Our full potential is to be found
within messages of hope.
Letting loose our hold
on what makes us weep.
If we properly regard all beating hearts,
that in itself will help us remember goodness,
and enjoy the wonder of life-
we’re alive!
Examining the complexities
within the pages of our story.
Let the heavens delight us,
its manifold audience.
The graces extended one to the other.
Every absolute reflected
from the true mirror of the kindest soul,
as precious as the rarest coin.
Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com.
classical guitar player, and a practitioner of both Yoga and Tai Chi. In, addition, she helps her husband, a Luthier, build acoustic guitars. She lives in
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A. Linda enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her 20 year old yellow tang. A retired teacher, who began
writing in earnest in January, 2015, Linda believes that poetry has the potential to add to the beauty of the world. Much of this beauty she feels can be
found in the night sky and, on warm nights, her telescope serves as inspiration for this belief. Linda’s published paperback poetry collections include
“Big Questions, Little Sleep,” “Big Questions, Little Sleep: Second Edition,” “Lost and Found,” “Red Is The Sunrise,” and “Bus Lights, City Sights: Nashville and Back.”
She has three e-books published by Soma Publishing; “The Sea’s Secret Song,” “Pairings,” which is a hybrid ebook of short fiction and poetry,
and “That Fifth Element.” Linda has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has four Best Of The Net nominations.