The Glass
Collector
Who will now
bear the standards,
help cease
the cannons roar?
John, as part
of a valorous chain,
closely
linked to his brothers,
not afraid to
look down at crater’s edge.
Thunder
rushed headlong,
and the sky
loomed bright.
Rivers burned
as they
struggled to repel
sinister,
destructive effects.
They poured
their sweat into the oceans
to replenish
shrinking seas.
Thousands of
hands bore arms in supplication,
blessed the
dark that protected them,
penetrated
the hostility for our sake.
He braved all
this
believing
there would be
better
windows in the new houses,
and robins
would build nests in new trees,
as birds of
day,
bird of
night,
birds of
dawn.
Their oaths
and ordeals
translated
into the greatest generation.
John, our
hometown hero.
To him
centuries of debt owed,
calendars of
veneration with purpose due.
We can repay
him,
in part,
by helping
all the glass
that
garrisons a serene world
not be
shattered.
Linda Imbler
Linda
Imbler is an internationally published poet, an avid reader, 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. where she enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank
wherein resides her 24 year old yellow tang. Linda’s poetry collections include eight published paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep First Edition, Big Questions, Little Sleep Second Edition; Lost and Found; Red Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; A
Mad Dance and Twelvemonth. 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. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. Linda has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and six Best Of
The Nets.