Thank you to Agron Shele of Atunis Galaxy  for publishing 

my two poems today.

https://atunispoetry.com/2020/09/17/poems-by-linda-imbler-usa/

                                                                                    Overlooking The Cliff

The emotional union of land and sea runs deep.

Watch from your height

the early morning fire-mist on the beach

before the sun consents to appear

as a glowing epic.

A constant flood of waves over sand.

A constant sea breeze ruffling hair.

In bright daylight,

over the tricky tor, you’ll spot

fish leaping in a single bound.

They then reverse,

and dive headlong, 

to then rejoin the ocean ceaseless.

If they land wrong they weep,

and all their tribe weeps for them.

Daily, memories sail across

this noble body of water.

And under the waves,

you may imagine 

the attended continuum of life.

As the sun sits and puts up his feet,

the pale-faced moon the twilight brings,

and with it, a different tide.

I see it all,

standing, 

overlooking the cliff.

Life Altering Love

The one truly life-altering thing

that everyone should experience

at least once, is to have someone 

fall in love with them.

Reveling in the huge back-and-forth 

fancy of one to the other.

A completed glimpse 

of the object of one’s affection 

never quite lasting long enough.

The whispering of warm words,

gently echoing,

within the carefully defined universe

both have agreed-upon.

Keeping close with each tender embrace

that gives breath to each tender kiss.

The aspect of modified responses

toward one’s beloved which differs 

from that given to anyone platonic.

A romance based on devotion, trust, and mutual support,

in pallid nighttime, or saturnine midnight.

Love as the discriminating operator 

of every admirer’s heart.