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Message in a Bottle
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Letter, Poetry, courage, dark, family, flash fiction, gratitude, love, mystery, prose, rhyme, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
In the spirit of the 1st prompt on the newly re-opened Writer’s Island, I retrieved this message from my imaginary bottle, unrolled, then read it — this is what it said:
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Seamen brave and strong as we
There’s a truth that we all learn
When brave and strong men go to sea
Tis not certain they’ll return
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October 23rd, 1997
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Letter to a friend regarding poetry
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Letter
Author’s note: I wrote this to a fellow writer, poet Ken Nye, who was reflecting on the frustration of nonconstructive criticism, and the occasional inflexibility of others. This letter was a flowing stream of consciousness. Upon re-reading it, I realized it spoke to being true to one’s self in all we do.
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