Modified Deity While The Seconds Tick Away
A bronzed and ageless god
of vague living
years stumbles down dusty streets, He
has downed the old medicine
like candy to prove history
and destiny are neither twins,
nor that his
past is frozen. His reinvention
of his persona
and identity
transformed night after night
gives me a touch of
foreboding.
Such a shame both
he and time are such
changelings
and mountebanks.
Brigh
Ireland’s Brigid, the safe mistress of sound bodies.
Protects all heroes born beside the misty moors
of Eire in Spring, having stood against all wintry winds.
Healing as the sun rises and again drops.
She watches over the darkling heaths as star beams emerge,
shadowed dreams woven within poets’ stories.
She instills wisdom within the lofty minds of scholars.
She, giver of ink and ideas to bards, writers, and scribes.
Flames of truth welded into the craft of smithing.
The copper glow of her plaited hair as she guides
strong hands and stout hearts both forged and forging.
Patroness of warfare, her complex surveying of skills.
The keening of whistle’s call heard over the peat,
fertility rites replacing those souls lost in battle.
Gypsy Witch
Dressed in full attire
She works a lighted canvas
Top hat with netting
She wants to give him that fiendish twinkle he had in his eye
Tulle bow
She wants to paint him scrying into the black ink of his own cauldron
Fingerless, black lace gloves
When done, the painting will bring him back
A seemingly bottomless cup of whiskey
She imbibes throughout the day
Locket with most prized possession inside, a lock of his hair
She’s ready to put the finishing touches on the painting
A flurry of hiccups
The jerking has moved her brush the wrong way.
A gulp followed by an endless stream of tears.
He has been erased and no magic can return him now.
The locket is also empty.
Examples of Linda Imbler's poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. When not writing, 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. Linda enjoys her 200-gallon saltwater reef tank wherein resides her 21 year old yellow tang.
A retired teacher, who began writing in earnest in January, 2015, Linda believes that poetry has the potential to add to the beauty of the world. Much of this beauty she feels can be found in the night sky and, on warm nights, her telescope serves as inspiration for this belief.
Linda’s published paperback poetry collections
include “Big Questions, Little Sleep,”
“Big Questions, Little
Sleep: Second Edition,” “Lost and Found,” “Red Is The Sunrise,” and “Bus
Lights, City Sights: Nashville and Back.”
She has three e-books published by Soma Publishing; “The Sea’s Secret Song,” “Pairings,” which is a hybrid e-book of short fiction and poetry, and “That Fifth Element.”
Linda has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has four Best Of The Net nominations.
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