Rare Rage

 


 

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 FoundRed Is The SunriseBus LightsTravel SightSpica’s Frequency; Doubt and Truth; A Mad Dance; and Twelvemonth.  Soma Publishing has published her four e-book collections, The Sea’s Secret SongPairings, 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.  

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