Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Heart’s Feast
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
Heart’s Feast
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I am in love
with falling in love
it is the most fragile
most fleeting
human experience
reciprocated
it is sublime
beyond measure
or words
when it ends
we fall in love
with the memory
of falling
and [...]
Well Traveled
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, introspection, love, memories, optimism, wisdom
…while it is true that, in the end, it is the journey that validates the destination — we do arrive at a point in life, where keeping one’s eye looking down the road, while seeing all we pass along the way, is what keeps the journey alive and meaningful…
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Rivers of Tears
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
Rivers of Tears
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once lithe and vital
nature’s great rivers
lie choked and bloated
buried misshapen
in watery graves
of reckless progress
headstone’d
by constructs
of human folly
their bones
stained
with the ghosts of salmon
borne away
on the [...]
Spring’s Interlude
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry, sonnet
…a Clarian Sonnet…
Spring’s Interlude
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may winds whisper, soon summer’s arrival
in time to insure humor’s survival
winter’s rains held firm and quite long this year
but stubborn skies at last [...]
Surfacing
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NAPOWRIMO 2012, Poetry
…poem for day 29 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Surfacing
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half full
your words resonate
and ring reverberant
in my melancholy
half empty
has always been my perspective
finding safety
in my hollow solitude
seeing the [...]
Friendship
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
…poem for day 27 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Friendship
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raise a carafe of love
pour forth freely
to drink deep
the wine of friendship
let its heady fragrance
sweeten your thoughts
and its [...]
Unrequited
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NAPOWRIMO 2012, Poetry
…poem for day 22 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Unrequited
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here
in the dream level
most like drowning
the id holds court
our darkest secrets
play out
in the false light
of veiled memory
recollections of [...]
Impaled
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
…poem for day 15 of National Poetry Month 2012…
painting entitled: Red Roofs — by: Marc Chagall © 1954
Impaled
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passion
let it run fire red
red as the roofs of [...]
Hoping
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, NAPOWRIMO 2012, Poetry
…poem for day 9 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Hoping
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he made a noisy gaudy show of leaving
hoping she would turn to stop him
walking out their door and [...]
Startled man
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NAPOWRIMO 2012, Poetry
…poem for day 8 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Startled Man
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she is birthed
in his fractured dreams
as weak as a forest fawn
helpless as a snowflake
falling on a May [...]
Entangled
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NAPOWRIMO 2012, Poetry
…poem for day 1 of National Poetry Month 2012…
Entangled
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he spent his life
building and feathering his nest
head down
consumed in the process
until one day
he rose up
to look around
only [...]
Faces
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
Faces
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the eyes are wise
the eyes are sad
the eyes are tired
the eyes are so familiar
the nose
the mouth
the chin
staring back
the one I think I am
want to be
but a [...]
Keeper
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
Keeper
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don’t drift or lose center
misaligned emotions
betray a balanced self
forsake prejudice
renounce isms
abandon agendas
beware truth
you are the perpetual presence
the constant sentinel
the witness to justice
the tinker of time
the precarious [...]
Yet - the complete story
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Poetry
In response to a suggestion over on dVerse that we fill in the gaps, by including the actual “back story” in a reconstruction of one of our poems. I’ve done so with my recent poem entitled “Yet”. I have incorporated the entirety of the original poem in italics, keeping it in its original [...]
Yet
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, beauty, courage, dreams, ecstatic, gratitude, joy, love, love story, memories, mystery, nature, optimism, sensuality, wonder
…inspired by the first day I met my wife, 25 years ago…
Yet
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had she not appeared in that clearing
so lost
had she not crossed my threshold
on that [...]
