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NaPoWriMo #9 - Jazzzzz
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, art, homage, joy, music, photo, rhyme, sketch, whimsy
This is my ninth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was written in keeping with the spirit of a prompt by Robert Peake, over at read write poem…
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Jazz in a Parallel Universe
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we was scorchin’
torchin’
in the zone
lighting chops
flamin’ righteous
primo riffin’
smokin’ sacred
glorified ‘n sanctified
fused bruised and overused
the big axe jumped
pumped
and [...]
NaPoWriMo #8 - Heartsong / Always
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, art, collage, joy, love, music, mystery, sensuality
This is my eighth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…Jill Crammond Wickham, over at read write poem, suggested we poets must keep up our reputation as the world’s foremost experts on writing about love! Anything you want Jill — here goes…
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Heartsong
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sometimes in the clatter
of a thoughtless moment
I [...]
Sing
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, art, dark, music, mystery, rhyme, wisdom
Sing
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a tear can cloud the brightest day
song will brush aside the clouds
is not sadness just a passing state
but what a melody can chase away
a tune played true with voice in tow
little sorrows flee from such display
thing is, so few will dare seek joy
and thus succumb to feeling low
yet when life is lived in harmony
what hurt [...]
The Book(s)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, music, prose
Two books that changed everything for me — “On The Road” by Jack Kerouac,
and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe.
I was a disenchanted-college-student-rock-musician and had just been awakened by the ‘67 Summer of Love, when I came upon both of these books in the Spring of 1968 in a bookstore in [...]
Duet
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, gratitude, music, mystery, photo
Duet
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rounding a bend
brushing through waist-high fern
I crest a knoll and stop
mesmerized
awash in the warm brushstrokes of evening
filtered through this woodland realm
as the waning sun paints the world golden
below me
a pristine ribbon of silver-blue water
flecked with sunlight
sparkles like a strand of gems
transfixed
I marvel at the beauty
at the power
of this mighty river
as it tumbles in timeless clarity
over [...]
Unexpected
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, courage, homage, music, mystery, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #27
This is the twenty seventh 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 a older poem of mine and was inspired by a moving personal experience, offered here in response to the NaPoWriMo [...]
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: [...]
My First
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, homage, love story, music, mystery, sensuality
NaPoMo poem #8
This is the eighth 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.
My First
Nocturne - video-poem
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, Spoken Word, art, music, mystery, photo, video poem
Nocturne
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…poem was written, and multimedia production was created by: rob kistner © 2008
NOTE: To read “Nocturne” CLICK HERE
…poem submitted in response to readwritepoem prompt #85
Swept Away - multimedia poem
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, Spoken Word, art, collage, music, video
Swept Away
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• NOTE: To insure quality, this video poem is presented as a QuickTime Movie™.
• To play, please CLICK the start arrow at the left in the bar on bottom of image.
The Gig
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, music, photo
…a musician’s tale told in multi-era players’ lingo…
The Gig
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man we was cookin’
we maxed the zone
the gig
was flamin’ righteous
I was on my chops
hammered primo riffs
my fender
was really smokin’
our upright dude
laid down cool bottom
his big axe
thumped with thunder
the scene was jake
we was jammin’ smooth
our stick man
rocked his traps
we kicked our tunes
brought down the house
the night
was true far [...]
Nocturne
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, Spoken Word, music, mystery, photo
A brooding full moon, in image, verse, and spoken word
Author’s note: this piece does not expose a secret, but instead, it deals with the weight and burden of keeping dark disturbing secrets buried away.
Nocturne
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hawk moon hangs heavy
in the damp night sky
bulbous moist pearl
rolling
in a cold chromium fog
wet slivers of cloud
smear themselves
across its face
irregular
like translucent sacks
of [...]
