Sonder
Each person you pass on the street,
holds the strange beauty of a
strange life.
We all breathe the same air,
and will die without it.
Avoid narrow-tipped assumptions
causing you to fail
to invest the time to know
peculiar characters, rough hewn and
angular,
who enjoy the talents
of spontaneous, unplanned actions.
Some leading a saintly life on
reverent missions,
others bearing subdued pain kept
inside.
Many individuals have skeletons in
their closet
that dance for them.
Indeed, your own closet also bears
your tales.
Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include seven published
paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep, Big Questions, Little Sleep
second edition (expanded with 66 additional poems); Lost and Found; Red
Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s
Frequency; and Doubt and Truth. Soma Publishing has
published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret Song; Pairings,
a hybrid of short fiction and poetry; That Fifth Element; and Per
Quindecim. Her new book, Rhythms Told, will be published in the
future by Soma Publishing. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a
listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com