NaPoWriMo #26 – Power / Alternatives

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


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• inspired by Jill Crammond Wickham’s day 26 prompt at read write poem

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Power

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let us speak of power

the writer’s words
the artist’s eye
the craftsman’s hands
the singer’s voice
the player’s soul
the actor’s courage

all who rise up in creativity
to share their gift

who elevate our humanness
shun our negative self

who share their spirit to inspire

who see great possibility
in the face of great challenge

who will not succumb
but prevail
as a kindled flame
to light our darkness

theirs is the power
they are the powerful
for they empower

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Alternatives

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three hundred miles gone

we’re just above dream canyon

big storm front building

cycles won’t make the snow pass

guess we point our two wheels south

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• poem and tanka by: rob kistner © 2010

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8 thoughts on “NaPoWriMo #26 – Power / Alternatives

  1. Great poems, great ideas.

    But Oh! How I loathe that pc word “craftspersons”
    – as a female it doesn’t bother me a tuppeny damn to be called a woman (man with a womb?), or my quilty craftsmanship discussed. Besides which, it spoils the rhythm of the line.

  2. Yes indeed, the writer’s words hold great power. To elevate or to destroy. Hopefully more often the former.

    Changing direction is very often the more prudent alternative. A lesson too often learned the hard way.

    That first photo is fantastic too! Yours?

  3. Thank you Viv –

    ‘Craftspersons’ does ruin the rhythm of the poem, something I struggled with — so to hell with being PC, I’m putting it back to craftsman… thank you Viv for giving me the nudge… 😉

    …rob

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