Featured Poet: Linda Imbler

​Advice One Can Use

What’s one piece of advice I’d offer
a newborn babe?  As you grow  and
as you live, find the joy in all things
and point it out, helping others see
it.  For there is so much
to celebrate in life and your happy
heart tends to rub off on people
who are not you.  The best things about
this approach will be the spreading of bliss.
The snowball effect of such emotion
tends to perpetuate
itself endlessly.  So, smile big, let your
eyes crinkle up grand.

Say thank you,
no matter how small the gesture.
Applaud warmly others’ wins. 
Train your mind to recall words which benefit your neighbor’s heart.
Words that cover all manner of kindness and love.
Think of a Christmas tree with bright green
needles upon which hang all pretty lights.  Now,
imagine the world covered with a lexical
bed of soft needles which do not poke. 

A bed soft enough for a baby.




A Message From Mom

Angels walk on Earth in guise of mortal manifestation.
A painted rock with one word, love,
written on it and placed strategically inside
a zoo rock garden
by a kindly woman.
Found by a recently motherless boy.
His thought,
my mother left this for me.
Through heat of summer
or chill of winter,
children will remind us 
that those who left us leave messages,
if only we act with the eyes and ears
of our early years,
and we look and we listen with the hearts
of the innocent.




The Gifting
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Forgive your foes and give them grace,
Show them your happy heart with smiles.
Among your friends give them a place.
Forgive your foes and give them grace.
Gift unto them goodwill of face
That they may sit with you awhile.
Forgive your foes and give them grace,
Show them your happy heart with smiles.

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Linda Imbler believes poetry has the potential to add to the beauty of the world. Her poetry collections include “Big Questions, Little Sleep,”  “Lost and Found,”  “The Sea’s Secret Song,” “Red Is The Sunrise,” and “Pairings,” a hybrid ebook of short fiction and poetry. Examples of Linda’s poetry and a listing of publications can be found at lindaspoetryblog.blogspot.com. 

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