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NaPoWriMo #22 - The Gaia Suite
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, courage, dark, editorial, gratitude, homage, joy, love, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
This is my Twenty-second post for National Poetry Month 2010
• an Earth Day message
• two tankas
• one prayer
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• • Happy Earth Day • •
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• Go and visit the Earth Day Action Center 2010, and please — be aware!
An Earth Day message:
These are some thoughts I would like to share on this Earth Day 2010. [...]
The Poets - (anatomy of a rewrite)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, editorial, wisdom
This poem, entitled “The Poets”, is a major rewrite inspired, over a decade later, by the original which I wrote in 1997, and which you will find following this piece…
• • • this comparative exercise was inspired by the blog “Totally Optional Prompts”
The Poets
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damaged in their special ways
they like the path unclear
the route unmarked
fond of [...]
Make it happen…
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, Post, editorial, wisdom
Hope
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with hope
we have direction
the energy to move
a map to follow
a hundred alternatives
a thousand paths
an infinity of dreams
with hope
we are half way there
without hope
we are lost forever
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