Big thanks to Editors Stacia Lynn Reynolds and Nilavro Nill Shoovro of Our Poetry Archive for publishing my three poems today.

https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2018/05/linda-imbler.html

METROPOLIS

The violence in the city peeks around corners,

grows and grows, explodes full throttle.

Tamp it down, make it rain calm,

not so easy with heads and hearts

full of rage and fear.

The white noise of the metropolis is deafening.

Reason unheard, reason ignored.

Pray for peace,

wherever tall buildings loom,

and streets are rolled out crowded,

and loneliness and despair

reproduce in abundance.

And what you see ahead

looks like what you just saw behind.

And the left and the right look the same.

And what’s at your feet

is the same color as what is over your head.

And there's nothing to bring the calm,

because the rain won’t come,

when the violence of the city

parches the land, heats the air, and dries up hope.