Archive for the ‘science fiction’ Category
Stream
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, dark, ecstatic, flash fiction, love, mystery, photo, prose, science fiction, stream of consciousness, tragedy, wonder
…I wrote this free verse poem in a single-draft, stream of consciousness, surrealistic spirit, with minimum edits, inspired by the ‘We Write Poetry’ prompt #11 — hence the title.
I then re-imagined it from a steganograhic perspective, and added the flash fiction prologue, so as to also offer it in response to the July [...]
Mind’s Eye
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, courage, dark, horror, love, mystery, science fiction, stream of consciousness, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
…response to prompt #13 from Magpie Tales…
Mind’s Eye
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I sit
with my mind’s eye
I watch the flow of people
the shuffle of feet
with their different sounds
according to their shoes
I see wan faces of unsmiling lips
their void curves denounce this night
yet unseen
is the gossamer curtain’s fall
that defines their soul’s duality
the divergent reality
through which truth stumbles blind
to move in the [...]
NaPoWriMo #29
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, mystery, science fiction, stream of consciousness, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This is my Twenty-ninth, and penultimate post for National Poetry Month 2010
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…this poem was inspired by D.S. Apfelbaum’s day 29 post at readwritepoem…
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Space Is
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a lightless void of soundless vacuum
spinning masses of revolving orbs
hurtling fragments in crystalline vapors
molten cores
mingled gasses
dead husks
black holes
magnetic icefalls
plasma rain
liquid lightening
solid clouds
attractions and repulsions
of precarious fragility
a frozen dance of chaos
on the tentative [...]
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 [...]
Caisson
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, dark, mystery, photorendering, prayer, science fiction, tragedy, wisdom
Caisson
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see you
see you in this carrion half-light
unworthy scavengers
you cluster to ravage
to defile the entity
drawn in this caisson
but you cannot
the living presence it bore
is greater than you
your gluttonness lust
might pick the meat clean
pick the bones dry
but this being has lived well beyond the muscle
beyond the sinew tendon and bone
these were its limits
now it is set free
so [...]
Alchemy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, art, dark, mystery, science fiction, wisdom
Alchemy
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you cannot change
a heart of iron
into a heart of gold
no precious warmth
will manifest
from something hard and cold
a love that’s locked
and set in cast
can never be set free
there is no hope
nor magic spell
not even alchemy
you cannot stop
the hands of time
from spinning ever on
when the sand
is through the hourglass
those days are ever gone
you cannot bring summer back
when [...]
Moonfall
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, art, dark, horror, mystery, science fiction
…I might find it interesting to believe that we are not alone in this universe within universes. I believe ‘others’ are observing us, and are concerned by our behavior. Called many things through the ages, such as “travelers”, “those that are”, “angles”, among others: I believe they have been here, and perhaps some [...]
Phantasmagoria
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, collage, love, science fiction
I’ve grown dark in my spirit over the past year, and I want to find my way back to the light and the wonder that used to fill me. I am posting this piece I wrote a couple years ago to remind myself of when I was still in touch with my sense of [...]
Otherworldy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, love story, mystery, rhyme, science fiction, sensuality
NaPoMo poem #15-A
This is fifteen-A 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 is a bit of sci-fi poetry, inspired by a flash fiction fantasy story I wrote a while ago.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially [...]
Val
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, art, dark drama, found poem, mystery, rhyme, science fiction, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #10
This is the tenth 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.
Suggested by read write poem as a poem for day 10 of National Poetry Month; this type is known as a ‘found poem’. [...]
Distant Farewell
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, action, love story, mystery, science fiction, suspense
Distant Farewell
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“I’ve watched
golden fire clouds,
hanging in pale green skies,
over the azure seas of Toluras”
“I’ve seen the copper leaves
of the parmus fronds
flashing from indigo mountains
in the crystal mists of Gemin.”
“I have beheld exquisite beauty
in my rich, full life
but none so beautiful
as your eyes tonight”
Artheo whispers
his breath warms
the tender lobe
of my eager ear
he presses his lips
softly to [...]
Through Time & Space
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, action, art, excerpt, love story, mystery, novel, science fiction, suspense
…the following is an excerpt from a science fiction novel I’m writing
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Through Time & Space
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“I have watched
golden fire clouds,
hanging in pale green skies,
over the azure seas of Toluras”
“I have seen the copper leaves
of the parmus fronds
flashing from indigo mountains
in the crystal mists of Gemin.”
“I have beheld exquisite beauty
in my rich, full life
but none [...]
