Archive for the ‘Haiku’ Category
Seven Red
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, love story, wisdom
NaPoMo poem-set #28
This is the twenty eighth day of poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This set of seven haiku were inspired by the read write poem NaPoWriMo prompt #28, “Seeing Red”.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so [...]
Being Now
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, Spoken Word, love story, mystery, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #25
This is the twenty fifth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This was inspired by a prompt at read write poem to write a “how to” about something difficult to do.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be [...]
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, [...]
Val
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, art, dark drama, found poem, mystery, rhyme, science fiction, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #10
This is the tenth 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.
Suggested by read write poem as a poem for day 10 of National Poetry Month; this type is known as a ‘found poem’. [...]
Love & War (two poems)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, Poetry, Spoken Word, art, collage, dark drama, love story, mystery, photorendering, suspense, wisdom
Love & War
The Nightmare
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my eyes
crisp from the day’s cruel sun
burnt by devastation’s fires
scorched by images of relentless horror
take refuge
in this late-evening fog
settling heavy as a shroud
clinging
opaque
mercifully obscuring
I am sustained
by this damp pall
that descends cool upon me
wraps ‘round my pained countenance
fevered with fatigue
twisted with despair
drawn
by a faded memory of honor
a faint echo of duty
a frayed thread [...]
