Secrets In the Dark
Tell me what you dreamt,
while you were unable to speak in the dark.
I carry the insomnia of martyrs.
I hear sounds heralded,
lost in chaos.
I heed them against
the quiet march of dead sons
in the hallway.
What were your impressions carved
within the sound sleep
of your high road?
I’ve asked you to tell me as best you can,
asked you to unveil,
what must be remembered.
What did you dream in the dark,
that puts you at ease
upon your foggy shelf?
Perhaps that’s a question
for another conversation.
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 nine 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.