Rare Rage
Let it be rare rage
to flail against those
who despise you with disdain.
Your sorrows exemplified by
seeds sown as the suffering caused by
your doubts.
Ward off blows of such scandals
as produced by a violent maelstrom
of fierce and frequent hearsay.
Disregard a good deal of talk in the air
around you
from those who will never stay.
You can never fall from favor
if you weren’t up there in the first
place.
Throw in the towel.
Let your painful associations order a last
meal.
Why cultivate unpleasant memories?
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 seven Best Of The Nets.