NaPoWriMo #1 – This Journey / Birds

This is my first post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku

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…written in the spirit of the wonderful journey that is NaPoWriMo 2010…

 

This Journey

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this journey has been one of wonder
joy, sadness, awe, and tears

it’s carried me ‘cross boundaries
borders
mass of lands
‘cross time and space

it’s shown me magic
marvels
the mystery of love

the best
the least
the good
the evil

it’s brought me pleasures
fame
and fortune

to claim them back
with no remorse

I’ve known satisfaction
adulation
a woman’s love
a child’s passing

it’s been true and faithful
genuine
just to turn away
and break my heart

it’s been fantasy
fact
and fiction
clear as light
then contradiction

I’ve been ignored
I’ve been betrayed
honored as a man of standing
then left behind
to cry alone

I’ve traveled light
I’ve traveled fast
I’ve stumbled
burdened
weighed with grief

I’ve lead and followed
lost my way
regained direction
just to go astray

I’ve walked hand in hand
with fear and death
stared down depression
to be consumed

then arose
to again go forth
without a clue my destination
with no regard for the fated outcome
and to my plight
no consideration

long ago I abandoned worry
having learned it’s of no use

I’ve realized despite our difference
at the core we’re all the same
this realm we enter all alone
from here we’ll leave alone again

but all of this is of no matter
foolish so to dwell upon
of no concern
of no regard
most certainly not worth the measure

because in reflection
one sees too late
it is this journey
that is the treasure

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Birds

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no wind at feeders

suet and the black seeds swing

evidence of birds

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poem and haiku by: rob kistner © 2010

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• five shuffle titles used to create the poem “This Journey”

Digable Planets – Time And Space
Marianne Faithfull – The Mystery Of Love
Bad Company – Fame and Fortune
Metallica – No Remorse
Finger Eleven – Lost My Way

NOTE: shuffle courtesy of my son’s iPod — me, I’m a jazz man…

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…get shuffled further into NaPoMo 2010 at readwritepoem

20 thoughts on “NaPoWriMo #1 – This Journey / Birds

  1. Those lines “just to turn away/ and break my heart”: those stick!

    Lovely reflection.

    I like the haiku, too.

    Hope you’ll stop by during the month. Lots planned related to poetry.

    Have a wonderful Easter.

  2. I enjoyed both poems, but especially the haiku. The middle line stands out for me. The word suet is so specific while the phrase black seeds is more general. an yet, anyone with a bird feeder can guess which seeds you are talking about.

    Thank you!

  3. The Journey really hits home with me too. All of it. But particularly this:

    then arose
    to again go forth
    without a clue my destination
    with no regard for the fated outcome
    and to my plight
    no consideration

    I expect I’ll be thinking about this all day.

  4. Rob,
    What a beautiful piece! You did a fantastic job here!
    So melancholy! Oh btw I want to join “Writer’s Island”is that ok?

    Pamela

  5. Good poem Rob.Didn’t know any of the music..but then again not all of us seniors are cool hot spunks!

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