Archive for the ‘nature’ Category
Soulfruit
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, beauty, ecstatic, erotic, joy, love, memories, mystery, nature, photo, sensuality, whimsy, wonder
This piece is offered in response to visual prompt Mag 30 at Magpie Tales (see at bottom),
and the August 30th prompt at Big Tent Poetry.
Soulfruit
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my mouth on you
soft
like a peach
you glisten
trickle from my lips
I bite you
sweet
like an apple
your hushed breath
staccato crisp
you taste
tart as strawberry
succulent
as love’s nectar
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rob kistner © 2010
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Mag 30
For No One
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, courage, joy, minimalist, nature, philosophy, wisdom, wonder
…this piece is in response to prompt #17 at We Write Poems,
and prompt #69 at Carry On Tuesday,
also the September 1st prompt at Three Word Wednesday…
For No One
•
the cadence
to which I tight step
pulses
in my heart
alone
it is my coursing vital
stirs my spirit
steels my resolve
drives me on
into the fray
emboldened
“to thine own self”
resonates
the chambers
of my soul
sweet
as the song
of [...]
True Work
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, Poetry, Tanka, art, beauty, courage, dark, gratitude, love, mystery, nature, philosophy, photo, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
…I offer this piece in response to prompt #67 at Carry On Tuesday,
and prompt #16 at We Write Poems,
also the August 23rd prompt at Big Tent Poetry,
and the August 25th prompt at Three Word Wednesday,
and prompt #18 at Writer’s Island,
and finally prompt #131 at One Single Impression…
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AUTHOR”S NOTE: I had this incomplete 3-year-old draft of [...]
Clarion Stones
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, beauty, courage, dark, gratitude, joy, love, memories, mystery, nature, photo, rhyme, wisdom, wonder
…this piece is in response to the 17th prompt of 2010 on Writer’s Island,
and offered for prompt 130 at One Single Impression,
and for prompt 229 at Sunday Scribblings….
• photo of stacked stones above from Inkwell Whispers
Clarion Stones
•
all those years ago
in the time of dangers
they were placed in secret
as a silent beacon
in the realm of night
waiting [...]
Wilt
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, beauty, nature, photo, regret
This piece is offered in response to the August 16th prompt at Big Tent Poetry.
Wilt
•
curtains hang limp
at the front room windows
through which no breeze
has blown for days
only the sound of tires
crackling like slow-torn velcro
as cars roll sluggish
past our porch
tugging the molten tar patches
of our sizzled street
watering the roses
I see the gerbera daisies droop
panting in their [...]
Still
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, beauty, courage, gratitude, homage, joy, love, memories, mystery, nature, photo, tragedy, wonder
This piece is offered in response to prompt Mag 26 at Magpie Tales
Still
•
it sits
still
atop the corner
of our garden wall
just where she left it
how many lilies
did it nourish
how many fuscia
lilac
rose
and morning glory
did it quench
it dispensed its
life giving waters
so gracefully
in her hand
such a delicate hand
gentle in its task
of planting new growth
but rugged on the weeds
that threatened her [...]
Blood Moon
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, dark, horror, mystery, nature, photo, rhyme, suspense, tragedy, wonder
This piece is offered in response to prompt Mag 25 at Magpie Tales,
prompt #13 at We Write Poems,
and the August 2nd prompt at Big Tent Poetry.
Blood Moon
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icy round
the wolf’n eye
soft and round
the riding breast
roundness
in the grande dame’s fear
a circle round
the blood moon’s crest
there are lies
within that circled moon
that surround
this cruel charade
they gather
and collect the [...]
Barren
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Haiku, Image, Poetry, dark, love, nature, photo, tragedy, wisdom
This is offered in response to Prompt #63 at Carry On Tuesday
Barren
•
no life without love
like a tree without blossoms
barren and fruitless
• • •
rob kistner © 2010
The Sudden Doe
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, beauty, courage, homage, joy, nature, philosophy, photo, wisdom, wonder
…I wrote this in response to the July 19th prompt at Big Tent Poetry…
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This is a response, not so much to the letter of Carolee’s prompt, but to it’s essence. Instead of picking a fovorite poem, I have focused on my favorite poet, Gary Snyder. Given I am deeply moved by most of [...]
The Quiet • The Strike
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, action, beauty, dark, gratitude, horror, joy, mystery, nature, philosophy, regret, suspense, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
…I’ve written two pieces in response to Three Word Wednesday July 21st prompt • the first is entitled “The Quiet” • the second is entitled “The Strike”…
The Quiet
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left like spent bait
in the disapproving sun
to rot from apathy
the carcasses of constituents
foolishly quiet
curl brittle and crack
victims of their trust
they did not jump
their chance for change
and so they [...]
Breakfast Lovers Fanatsy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, family, food, humor, nature, photo, photorendering, rhyme, satire, whimsy, wonder
…I wrote this in response to the July 5th prompt at Big Tent Poetry…
Breakfast Lovers Fantasy
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whether panning for poached
fishing for fried
or sifting for softly scrambled
maybe bobbing for boiled
or sunny side up
angling for over easy
perhaps baiting a hook
for benedict
or dangling a lure for deviled
be they baked in cakes
or dropped in soup
it’s a whites & yolks wet [...]
No Longer Imagine
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, beauty, ecstatic, gratitude, homage, joy, love, mystery, nature, sensuality, wisdom, wonder
…in response to the 9th prompt on the newly re-opened Writer’s Island, I offer a perspective on love…
…but first a short verse I wrote inspired by prompt #8 at We Write Poems…
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see feel hear touch breath live
life is a sensual garden
no longer imagine
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No Longer Imagine
•
I can no longer imagine
the heat of the red rock desert
soothing [...]
Sacred
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, beauty, ecstatic, gratitude, homage, joy, love, memories, mystery, nature, philosophy, photo, prayer, wisdom, wonder
A hike into the Cascade Mountains, in image and verse.
Author’s note: It was a beautiful day for hiking here in Oregon, so I made a trek into the Mt. Hood wilderness — camera in hand, notebook and pen in my shirt pocket. This is my day, shared with you here, in image and verse. The [...]
