NaPoWriMo #25

This is my twenty-fifth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka


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• inspired by Joseph Harker’s day 25 prompt at read write poem

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Hotaslava

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I will not forget you

memory still burns
tearful recollection of the first time
my eyes beheld your luscious curves

skin smooth as satin
golden as you lay before me
seductive in the summer sun

you fired my imagination
ignited my soul

I wanted you so badly
my lips trembled
you promised such sweetness

but I’d been warned by others
who had dared indulge your fiery charms
that it would end in tears

I did not heed their counsel

seduced
I fell upon you hungrily
taking you in passion’s flames
hot as lava
scorching as an august sun

swept away
I consumed your charms
an inferno of desire

tasting your forbidden fruit
in a wanton blaze I took my fill

but just as quick it ended

I should have listened
they knew you all too well

you burned me badly
and left me crying

but I never will forget you…

…habanero

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Coldasice

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drips pizzicato

crescendo of icicles

north wind’s cadenza

wintertime’s crisp symphony

played on nature’s outdoor stage

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• poem and tanka by: rob kistner © 2010

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…check out the other spontaneity at readwritepoem

15 thoughts on “NaPoWriMo #25”

  1. You got me turned around a couple of times with the first one Rob. When I saw the title I was thinking “some Eastern European country I never heard of” then promptly forgot about the title as I was plunged into a chapter of my own past in the verse, only to resurface again with a wry grin out of the final turn. Thanks for the smile this early Sunday morning!

  2. Rob,
    I love the contrast between hot and cold…the hot sooo very hot and the cold soo very cold it is hot. Bread please, and and glass of cold milk. A good cure for an exceptionally hot meal.
    Peggy Jo

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