Reconstructed
Newsreels
Your progression of thoughts,
herky-jerky,
like old movie reels played.
A shabby, cramped newsstand,
next to a hosting train station.
Newspapers delivering reports,
using wrecked grammar,
as quickly as flood waters rise.
Not dispatching
the past or the future,
but only what hums right now.
A collective desolation,
strange, yet familiar.
You know in your head
the sweet arms of happiness,
or the sparkling beauty
of dew encrusted grass,
as your fellow man intended.
Tragedies proclaimed,
about others who struggle
no less than you.
Hold your familiars close,
and grow them
in greater numbers,
and know
that you
can change
each day’s headlines
if you stand
side by side
with all the others
Whose warm hearts
do not register controversy.
.
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 eight 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; and A Mad
Dance. 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.
