Archive for the ‘dark drama’ Category
Golden Lady
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, beauty, dark drama, dreams, erotic, fantasy, joy, mystery, myth, photo, rhyme, sensuality, tragedy, whimsy, wonder
Golden Lady
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golden lady in sensuous silk
a beauty sure to mesmerize
sculpted by a master’s hand
so seductive as to scandalize
a stare of comely crystal blue
floats above a ruby pout
spellbound by her magic eyes
she holds your soul with no way out
her tongue tip teases her top lip’s edge
like a supple paintbrush flowing
her smile will fire and hypnotize
then wrap [...]
Images - a ten year vigil
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, courage, dark, dark drama, homage, horror, introspection, love, memories, photo, prayer, regret, tragedy, wisdom
…lest we ever forget
Images
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images
unreal
unfathomable images
the graceful glide
engulfed by the spire
in a roar of golden orange
horribly beautiful
perversely mesmerizing
obscene
devastating images
torrents of humanity
raining down
desperation their only escape
masses of humanity
racing
to outrun the unbelievable
praying
to be delivered from the inconceivable
traumatic images
shrines of free commerce
consumed
by the unbearable weight
of their fragile significance
plummeting to earth
in a cloud of self-destruction
heartbreaking images
screaming
dazed
terrified souls
consumed
by the unbearable weight [...]
The Box
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Short Story, action, beauty, courage, dark, dark drama, love, love story, memories, mystery, photo, regret, sensuality, suspense, tragedy, wonder
This piece is offered in response to prompt Mag 29 at Magpie Tales,
and the August 25th prompt at Three Word Wednesday,
and prompt #18 at Writer’s Island.
The Box
…a short story of intrigue…
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“What do you mean Taylor,” Gwen inquired, the strain obvious in her weary voice. “Who exactly is going to confront Dylan… and why?”
Her voice trailed [...]
Lupus Luna
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, dark, dark drama, horror, mystery, photorendering, suspense, tragedy
…I wrote this in response to the May 31st prompt at Big Tent Poetry…
Lupus Luna
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wolf moon hangs heavy
in the damp night sky
I feel its powerful tug
bulbous moist pearl
rolling in a cold chromium fog
forging my steely urges
hardening my unspeakable needs
wet slivers of cloud
smear themselves across its face
irregular
dappling my perverse metamorphosis
translucent sacks of moonbeams
glide the blue black [...]
The Key
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, courage, dark drama, family, horror, mystery, photo, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
• In response to the 3rd prompt on the newly re-opened Writer’s Island, I offer a gothic tale…
• I also offer this in response to prompt #116 at One Single Impression…
The Key
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I must move quickly from this light
that pools incrementally
in this long
pungent
segmented hallway
there is some safety in the shadows
that linger tight
to the arch walls
so I [...]
NaPoWriMo #14 - Tears / Murder / Nudity
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, cleave, courage, dark drama, gratitude, horror, humor, joy, love, mystery, photo, prose, science fiction, sensuality, tragedy, wisdom
This is my fourteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one cleave
• one free verse science fiction love poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was inspired by a prompt by Nicole Nicholson over at read write poem…
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Sorrow
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(this is a cleave)
in great anguish in the sour light of treason
I look upon my glaring loss which stings my eyes
I [...]
A Poet’s Journey
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, art, courage, dark drama, homage, mystery, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #30
This is the thirtieth and the final of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
As this poem marks the end of my poetic journey through National Poetry Month 2009, I’ve decided to do a rewrite of a poem, the [...]
My Words
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, mystery, rhyme, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #24
This is the twenty fourth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This is about a poet struggling with inspiration, pressing to break through writer’s block.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur [...]
Dissonance
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, mystery, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #24-A
This is poem twenty-four-A of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This, like poem #24, is also about a poet struggling with inspiration, trying to block out the night noises and cacophony that surrounds him on a hot sticky [...]
For Granted
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, homage, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #22
This is twenty second of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This poem is an homage to Gaia, our mother earth, in celebration of Earth Day 2009. Embedded within this free verse poem are a trio of haiku, [...]
I will Not Forget
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, homage, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #19
This is the nineteenth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This poem is an edited rewrite of an older poem I’d written, but not completed to my satisfaction. Today’s prompt brought such deep feelings flooding into my [...]
Stir of Love
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, love story, mystery, tragedy
NaPoMo poem #18
This is the eighteenth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This poem was inspired by a short story I wrote a few years ago, based on personal experience.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so [...]
Gone / A Leaf
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, love story
NaPoMo poem #17 & #17-A
This is a pair of poems I offer for the seventeenth day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
These two works, though written separately, have revealed themselves to be joined as bookends of emotion — the piercing ache of separation, and [...]
The Return
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, love story, sensuality, tragedy
NaPoMo poem #14
This is the fourteenth of the poems I will be writing each day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after their initial posting.
The Return
Morning in the Neighborhood
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, courage, dark drama, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #12
This is the twelfth of the poems I will be writing each day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after their initial posting.
Morning in the Neighborhood
