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NaPoWriMo #7 - Free / Ready to Roll / Old School
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, courage, humor noir, joy, love, photo, rhyme, whimsy
This is my seventh post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
• one onomatopoeia
• one noxious fume
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Free
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fueled by the freedom of the open road
we race our way into the sunset
leaning tightly into curves
wind whipping our hair
our knees tucked
heads down
we rocket
thriving on the thrill of the throttle
embracing the magnificence
living in the moment
not [...]
Unyeilding
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, collage, humor noir, photorendering, rhyme
Unyeilding
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my muse is hard to capture
though I do try each day
just goes so fast
I turn around
it’s past me in a blur
leaving little inspiration
each day becomes each night
here I sit in the wee hours
while the sane sleep
steeped in contradiction
thoughts vague
filled with doubt
words tossed about the unyielding page
I start then stop
I write then not
caught mercilessly unclear
in [...]
So Amusing
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, homage, humor noir, photo, rhyme, satire, whimsy
…this is a fond homage to Theodor Seuss Geisel and Sheldon Alan Silverstein…
So Amusing
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what is it you find so amusing my dear
perhaps it’s the fact I have only one ear
it makes it difficult to accurately hear
so you’ll have to speak that much louder I fear
yes it’s true, as you see, I have only my right
the [...]
So Many Gifts
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, courage, humor noir, mystery, satire, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #29
This is the twenty ninth and the penultimate 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 a tongue-in-cheek, but well intentioned look at life’s many gifts, inspired by prompt #29 at read write poem.
• NOTE: these poems [...]
Fashion Faux Pas
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, humor, humor noir, rhyme, satire, whimsy
NaPoMo poem #23
This is the twenty third of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This is a bit of whimsy inspired by the read write poem NaMoWriMo prompt #23, “a different hat”.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, [...]
Offbeat
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, humor, humor noir, rhyme, satire, whimsy
NaPoMo poem #18-A
This is poem eighteen-A 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 prompt at Sunday Scribblings. Prompt was “language”.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after [...]
15 Days To Go
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, humor, humor noir, rhyme, satire
NaPoMo poem #16
This is the sixteenth 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.
15 Days To Go
Bohemian Nightfall
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, action, american sentence, dark drama, homage, humor noir, music, mystery, satire, sensuality, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #11
This is the eleventh 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.
This poem is inspired by three past and two upcoming films — which were based, sometimes loosely, on four timeless novels.
The past movies are: [...]
Ziggy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, humor, humor noir, mystery, rhyme
NaPoMo poem #7
This is the seventh 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.
Ziggy
SeaLife
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, humor noir, mystery
SeaLife
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To the seaside she strolls
with me
On a sunny seaside day
Into the sea she slips
alone
Then silently swims away
The sea opens up and
swallows
In its watery deep sea way
Soon she’ll be down with the
fishes
Aswim in the seabed’s sway
Serene in the spledor of
sea life
Neptune’s beauty in array
She seeks solace in this
sea world
These blues keep her blues at bay
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Poems of the heart…
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Haiku, Image, Poetry, art, humor, humor noir, sketch
Following here you will find a whimsical poem entitled “Heartbreaker”, and humorous haiku entitled “The Color of Love”, each inspired by this Kyknoord illustration, which is offered as a visual prompt at “readwritepoem”.
Heartbreaker
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this is a broken heart you see
this broken heart belongs to me
it once was vital whole and strong
‘till one day beauty came along
she [...]
So Good
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, humor noir, satire, sketch
• Here is a bit of lighthearted noir tongue-in-cheek…
So Good
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do not take this as precocious
but in business I’m ferocious
I wheel the deal with an artist’s feel
I rip the meat down to the bone
if I do say so – I’m incredible
so good, I’m almost edible
brains and brawn, I’m bright as the dawn
I’m on my game and [...]
Outragesauras
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, humor noir, satire
Outragesauras
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beware the outragesauras
gluttonous drive-time dinosaurs
dreaded treaded behemoths
that bully across the face of our crippled planet
devouring resources
like a herd of metallic mastodons
a relentless forage of fragile fossil fuel
to suck dry the paleozoic nectar
300 million years in the making
a fraction of that in the plunder
they spew forth poisonous discharge
fouling the atmosphere
pummeling our frail ecosystem
shoving earth closer
ever closer
to [...]
