When Dreams Stream Into Prominence

 

When Dreams Stream Into Prominence

 

Cry only when all hope is lacking,

but only then.

Partial failings do not set the daily bet.

 

The once reluctant aspect

of opening your heart

flips itself on its head,

gaining positive momentum,

spiraling upward,

landing on a sturdy girder of a splendid edifice

which once built secures hopes and dreams.

 

Whatever warnings you think you’ve heard,

when it all feels right,

hold your new truths ever dearer.

 

Rhetoric can never be affirmed,

so downplay its squat and ugly impact,

give and accept tenderness to and from all sides.

 

When your life becomes a halcyon affair,

tranquil brilliance will stream into prominence,

and you will do no harm.

 

 

Linda Imbler

  

Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. Linda is 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.  She enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her 21 year old yellow tang.  Linda’s published paperback poetry collections include Big Questions, Little Sleep,  Big Questions, Little Sleep: Second Edition, Lost and Found, Red Is The Sunrise, Bus Lights, Travel Sights: Nashville and Back, and Spica’s Frequency. She has four e-books published by Soma Publishing;  The Sea’s Secret Song, Pairings, which is a hybrid ebook of short fiction and poetry, That Fifth Element, and Per Quindecim. Linda has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and five Best Of The Nets.