Contraries
When faced with a need
to discuss things of consequence,
when it seems hard
to have your wisdom accepted;
when you only wish
to say things imaginatively
sensible,
with resplendent wit,
let yourself float
within mental transitional space,
and spin alternating conversations
upon your mental carousel.
While comments twirl,
imagine the other side,
wishing to discard their own bad
ideas
and adopt your paradigm,
because you used expert verbal
brushwork
like a Van Gogh,
or dealt out ideas like a
cardsharp
with a dictionary rather than a
deck,
because you set up your carnival
grounds
with the most scholarly carnival
rides.
Mint the Janus coin in your favor,
let both sides come up heads,
close the gap,
like a once unfortunate cut now
completely healed.
Linda
Imbler
Linda Imbler’s poetry collections include seven published
paperbacks: Big Questions, Little Sleep, Big Questions, Little Sleep
second edition (expanded with 66 additional poems); Lost and Found; Red
Is The Sunrise; Bus Lights; Travel Sight; Spica’s
Frequency; and Doubt and Truth. 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