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For No One
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, courage, joy, minimalist, nature, philosophy, wisdom, wonder
…this piece is in response to prompt #17 at We Write Poems,
and prompt #69 at Carry On Tuesday,
also the September 1st prompt at Three Word Wednesday…
For No One
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the cadence
to which I tight step
pulses
in my heart
alone
it is my coursing vital
stirs my spirit
steels my resolve
drives me on
into the fray
emboldened
“to thine own self”
resonates
the chambers
of my soul
sweet
as the song
of [...]
True Work
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, Poetry, Tanka, art, beauty, courage, dark, gratitude, love, mystery, nature, philosophy, photo, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
…I offer this piece in response to prompt #67 at Carry On Tuesday,
and prompt #16 at We Write Poems,
also the August 23rd prompt at Big Tent Poetry,
and the August 25th prompt at Three Word Wednesday,
and prompt #18 at Writer’s Island,
and finally prompt #131 at One Single Impression…
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AUTHOR”S NOTE: I had this incomplete 3-year-old draft of [...]
Old Man’s Prayer
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, courage, dark, love, memories, mystery, philosophy, photo, prayer, regret, rhyme, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
…this piece is in response to the 16th prompt of 2010 on Writer’s Island,
and visual prompt Mag 27 at Magpie Tales (see image at bottom),
also offered for prompt 129 at One Single Impression,
and for prompt 228 at Sunday Scribblings….
Old Man’s Prayer
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successful as a younger man
the grind became my home
and I a conduit of worry
could I [...]
Machine Mind
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Essay, Free Verse, Image, Poetry, Tanka, art, collage, dark, humor, humor noir, love, mystery, photo, photorendering, rhyme, science fiction, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This post is offered in response to prompt #14 at We Write Poems,
the August 9th prompt at Big Tent Poetry,
the August 11th prompt at Three Word Wednesday,
and prompt #65 at Carry On Tuesday.
“…scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could,
they didn’t stop to think if they should…”
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Machine Mind
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you wink awake at [...]
Spellbound
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, collage, courage, dark, ecstatic, joy, love, memories, photorendering, suspense, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
…this piece is in response to the 15th prompt of 2010 on Writer’s Island
and further inspired by prompt #14 at We Write Poems…
Spellbound
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poet
you are enigma
darkness and shadow
you veil and shroud
fire and light
you incandesce
torch my essence
burn deep my soul
trouble my spirit
unsettle my being
ignite my wonder
whet my seeker’s vessel
with need
to be filled full
at once familiar
yet
exotically foreign
wonderfully strange
wrongly [...]
Elton The Elf
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, courage, humor, joy, rhyme, whimsy, wonder
…I wrote this in response to the spirit of the July 26th prompt at Big Tent Poetry…
Elton The Elf
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an angel-eyed velvet-clad curious elf
was sitting alone on a leaf by himself
quite lost and he didn’t see anyone else
he was scared and he hid and he tried to be stealth
“I wish I was home like a good [...]
Always Options
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, Poetry, Reverse Senryu, art, courage, humor, joy, love, mystery, philosophy, photo, whimsy, wisdom
…in response to the 10th prompt of 2010 on Writer’s Island, I offer a perspective on perspective…
Always Options
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he came upon divergent ways
that stretched beyond the road he’d trod
he would go forth this was his mind
but had no notion which way that was
the pathway left was sparse with step
the roadway right was traveled plenty
leaning low to [...]
Extinction’s Shadow
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Haiku, Image, Poetry, Reverse Senryu, Senryu, art, dark, horror, mystery, tragedy, wisdom
…these are rewrites of prior drafts, edited fresh for the June 21st prompt at Big Tent Poetry
and strongly influenced by prompt #7 at We Write Poems…
Extinction’s Shadow
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smothered by big oil
our blue planet is dying
greed’s shadow falls hard
•
future is mortgaged
to petrochemical lust
fatal addiction
•
mankind is drowning
in a flood of fossil fuel
black tide of folly
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Eve’s Eyes
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, courage, dark, found poem, mystery, suspense, tragedy, whimsy
• In response to prompt #5 of the newly opened We Write Poems, this is a surrealistic poem I created using a technique of creative omission called erasure. I am generally not a fan of fashioning a poem to or from a form or device — but this was interesting. The original poem I [...]
Blue Temple
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, Tanka, art, gratitude, homage, joy, love, minimalist, mystery, philosophy, photo, prayer, wisdom
…response to prompt #14 from Magpie Tales…
The image of this plate above, this week’s prompt at Magpie Tales, immediately put me in mind of serenity. Also, while the plate may be Chinese in origin, it also made me think of the ancient Japanese poetic form called tanka.
Tanka are 31-syllable poems that have been the [...]
Boxes - Contemplation in 3 Parts
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, Tanka, art, courage, dark, horror, humor, love, mystery, photo, rhyme, stream of consciousness, tragedy, whimsy, wisdom
In response to the Ist prompt on the newly opened We Write Poems, I contemplate boxes
Boxes
Contemplation #1
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my memories gather and squabble
like crows in fallow fields
they pick clean
the bones of my recall
bones against the cruel clay
of an arid barren mind
bones spilled from soul boxes
in which I’d desperately collected
the scarred and damaged pieces
of my broken dreams
dreams now [...]
NaPoWriMo #30
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, art, homage
This is my Thirtieth, and final post for National Poetry Month 2010
…presented as a warm farewell to readwritepoem, a brief creative oasis in a soul-starved time…
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The Poets
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damaged in their special ways
they like the path unclear
the route unmarked
fond of stumbling in
fumbling through
finding the way that’s theirs
engaged by the obtuse
the uneven
the asymmetric chord
they see grace and form
in [...]
NaPoWriMo #29
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, mystery, science fiction, stream of consciousness, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This is my Twenty-ninth, and penultimate post for National Poetry Month 2010
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…this poem was inspired by D.S. Apfelbaum’s day 29 post at readwritepoem…
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Space Is
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a lightless void of soundless vacuum
spinning masses of revolving orbs
hurtling fragments in crystalline vapors
molten cores
mingled gasses
dead husks
black holes
magnetic icefalls
plasma rain
liquid lightening
solid clouds
attractions and repulsions
of precarious fragility
a frozen dance of chaos
on the tentative [...]
NaPoWriMo #28 - part 2:
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, art, courage, dark, joy, love, mystery, philosophy, photo, stream of consciousness, wisdom
This is part 2 of my twenty-eighth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one ecstatic poem
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…this first poem was inspired by Julie Jordan Scott’s day 28 at readwritepoem
the second is an edited rewrite of a poem I wrote a couple of years ago that I wanted to share…
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In following Julie’s suggestion [...]
NaPoWriMo #27
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, acrostic, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, love, music, mystery, philosophy, photo, prose, rant, satire, suspense, tragedy, video poem, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-seventh post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one acrostic
• one tanka
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• inspired by Carolee Sherwood ’s day 27 prompt at read write poem to write an acrostic
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Evolution
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Even in chaos nature finds balance.
Violent floods beget fertile fields.
One thing ends, another begins.
Life is a cycle of birth and death.
Untamed wildfire creates forest [...]
