Archive for the ‘prayer’ Category
Seeking Forgiveness
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, dark, horror, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
…this is a poem about the horror and ethical dilemma that is war, and the devastating impact it has on many soldiers…
Seeking Forgiveness
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my eyes
crisp red from the scalding sun
from devastation’s fires
from cruel vision of relentless horror
scorched by vicious exposure of sentenced gaze
take refuge in this heavy late evening dew
thick with munitions soot
settling like a shroud
lubricious
opaque
obscuring
I [...]
Becoming
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, mystery, prayer, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #26
This is the twenty sixth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This is my second metaphysical poem in two days, and was inspired by the NaPoWriMo prompt # 26 at read write poem.
• NOTE: these poems will all [...]
For Granted
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, homage, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #22
This is twenty second 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 homage to Gaia, our mother earth, in celebration of Earth Day 2009. Embedded within this free verse poem are a trio of haiku, [...]
Our Dreams
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, homage, love story, prayer, rhyme, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #21
This is twenty first 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 a wedding prayer inspired by the read write poem NaMoWriMo prompt #21, “rite of passage”.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so [...]
I will Not Forget
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, homage, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #19
This is the nineteenth 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 an older poem I’d written, but not completed to my satisfaction. Today’s prompt brought such deep feelings flooding into my [...]
