Archive for the ‘NaPoMo 2010’ Category
NaPoWriMo #19 - Ah Hah!
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Limerick, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, humor, humor noir, joy, photo, rhyme, satire, sculpture, whimsy, wisdom
This is my nineteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one limerick
• one tanka
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• inspired by Rallentanda’s day 19 prompt at read write poem
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Surplus
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it struck me the moment I met you
I just didn’t want to upset you
didn’t know how you’d act
if I acknowledged the fact
but now that you’ve asked guess I’ll have to
I know that [...]
NaPoWriMo #18 • part 2 - Mask
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, art, courage, love, wisdom
This is part 2 of my eighteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• VARIATIONS ON THE MASK •
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…these two free verse poems are inspired by prompt #112 at One Single Impression…
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Unmask
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outside
evening breezes freshen
a wind chime hangs in the eave
rings time to time
inside
we sit with dinner
complacency
little resonance
we care for one another
our love
goes without saying
meal finished
we clear [...]
NaPoWriMo #18 - Human Arrogance
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, art, collage, courage, dark, horror, mystery, photorendering, rant, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This is my eighteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Irene’s day 18 read write poem prompt / and #49 at carry on tuesday
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…a thing of beauty is a joy forever, a captive wild soul — is a tragedy…
Pacing
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from rippled sinew black as midnight
bores a stare of [...]
NaPoWriMo #17 - Memories
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, dark, family, gratitude, homage, joy, love, mystery, photo, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
This is my seventeenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• two free verse poems
• one tanka
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…this piece that follows was inspired by the April 15th prompt at Magpie Tales…
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Engraved
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he places it in my trembling hand
as he lays dying
it marked sacred
all the precious moments
of our life together
be they great
be they small
all are in here
the moment he [...]
NaPoWriMo #16 - Breathe Deep / On The Bar-B
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, food, homage, joy, love, photo, sensuality, stream of consciousness, whimsy, wisdom
This is my sixteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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…this piece was inspired by Julie Jordan Scott’s day 16 prompt at read write poem…
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…the three photos that follow here are of my yard — the poems are just below them…
Breathe Deep
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I sit
writing at my desk
a cool afternoon breeze
wafts through [...]
NaPoWriMo #15 - Love’s Serenade / Seaside
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, joy, love, music, mystery, photo, sensuality
This is my fifteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse love poem
• one tanka
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…this piece was inspired by the National Poetry Month day 15 prompt at read write poem…
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Love’s Serenade
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sing to me my sweet sweet lover
songs as soft as silk and satin
sensual as bare embrace
promise me the world is ours
that this perfect [...]
NaPoWriMo #14 - Tears / Murder / Nudity
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, cleave, courage, dark drama, gratitude, horror, humor, joy, love, mystery, photo, prose, science fiction, sensuality, tragedy, wisdom
This is my fourteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one cleave
• one free verse science fiction love poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was inspired by a prompt by Nicole Nicholson over at read write poem…
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Sorrow
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(this is a cleave)
in great anguish in the sour light of treason
I look upon my glaring loss which stings my eyes
I [...]
NaPoWriMo #13 - The Nature of Fire / Gone
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, courage, dark, mystery, photo, tragedy, wisdom
This is my thirteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was inspired by a prompt by Sarah J. Sloat over at read write poem…
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The Nature of Fire
A Poem Using Three Lines from Norman Dubie’s “Of Politics & Art”
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(the borrowed lines are italicized)
here
on the farthest point of the peninsula
an [...]
Deadline
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, humor, love, photo, satire, whimsy, wisdom
Deadline
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presented for your consideration
deadlines
and time
time is relative
a fleeting thing
non-substantive
so how does one keep time
to keep is to hold
or maintain
something in your possession
it would seem
given the insubstantial nature
of time
that one cannot
with time
being the core component
of a deadline
and time unable to be ‘kept’
the logical deduction
is that a deadline
is therefore unable to be ‘kept’
it would also seem
that it [...]
NaPoWriMo #12 - Look Poet / Croissants
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, suspense, wisdom
This is my twelfth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was inspired by a prompt by Carolee Sherwood over at read write poem…
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Look Poet
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poet
do not weave
your fabric of myth
or speak to us in grand verse
telling of the song
of the spheres
or the days
before this dark time
help us see
the real [...]
Pre-Dawn Window
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, gratitude, joy, love, sensuality
Pre-Dawn Window
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in this moonlit forest
midnight shimmers
through the misty boughs of old growth
as if star clusters dance the branches
above our high-mountain meadow
lake aglow like sterling satin
like a crystalline wonderland
this night holds deep and quiet
save a great white owl
echoing through the sparkling cedars
lover and beloved
we entwine
wrapped in a pre-dawn half-wake
a semi-lucid trance
be-dazzled by the spectacle
just outside our [...]
NaPoWriMo #11 - Play Ball!
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, gratitude, homage, joy, love, photo, stream of consciousness
This is my eleveth 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 Angie Werren over at read write poem who asked us to write about the choice we didn’t make…
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Spring Recall
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it is this time every year
perhaps coaxed by the [...]
Vicarious
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, courage, gratitude, homage, joy, love, music, wisdom
Vicarious
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unquestionably joy
in a most unexpected place
the eyes of an innocent
cruel society deems disabled
bent and stooped
gripped and twisted
confined to constant care
and his rolling metal chair
his gentle eyes reflect a wonder
my heart has long since lost
by vanity extinguished
his spirit knows only trust
it pours forth from his soul
he rocks and waves
sways and vibrates
fully alive in the now
positioned near [...]
NaPoWriMo #10 - Woodpeckers / Hiking
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, gratitude, homage, joy, love, mystery, photo, photorendering, wisdom
This is my tenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was written in the spirit of Pamela Sayers’ prompt “Celebrate!” at read write poem…
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Woodpeckers
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the two red crests are busy
hammering away
peck peck peck
big chucks of the dead pulp
flying in all directions
the elusive couple has come
down into the yard
from [...]
NaPoWriMo #9 - part two: That Moon
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, courage, dark, horror, joy, love, tragedy
This is part 2 of my ninth post for National Poetry Month 2010
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…this is a very sobering piece written precisely to Robert Peake’s prompt at read write poem,
and influenced by prompt #9 at Magpie Tales…
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That Moon
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that moon
that child
hold eternity’s promise in share
colorful pails on the ocean’s beach
festooned in starfish and octopus
campfire’s ‘neath a canopy of [...]
