Archive for the ‘suspense’ Category
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 [...]
Hands of Neptune
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, dark, horror, mystery, photo, suspense, tragedy
…response to prompt #12 from Magpie Tales…
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Hands of Neptune
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like the disembodied
hands of Neptune
reaching from a rocky confine
breaking surface
into the watery realm
seeking
grasping
needing
but entombed
in a glassened globe
a crystal cage
cruelly shut away
from that which is most desired
contact
connection
prisoner
in brutal isolation
banished
even from the lesser gods
condemned eternally
to never know
the redemption of touch
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rob kistner © 2010
Sad Little Clown
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, action, dark, horror, humor noir, love, mystery, photo, suspense, tragedy
…presented as a second gracious salute to the first prompt from Big Tent Poetry…
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Sad Little Clown
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I am the sad little clown
with the frowning face
the round red nose
and the great big tear
this meek facade
and silly sham
belie the horror
that I engineer
life’s dealt me cold
my hand is slack
not a queen
no king nor ace
the violence
that dwells within
is masked behind
my [...]
Message in a Bottle
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Letter, Poetry, courage, dark, family, flash fiction, gratitude, love, mystery, prose, rhyme, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
In the spirit of the 1st prompt on the newly re-opened Writer’s Island, I retrieved this message from my imaginary bottle, unrolled, then read it — this is what it said:
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Seamen brave and strong as we
There’s a truth that we all learn
When brave and strong men go to sea
Tis not certain they’ll return
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October 23rd, 1997
This [...]
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 #27
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, acrostic, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, love, music, mystery, philosophy, photo, prose, rant, satire, suspense, tragedy, video poem, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-seventh post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one acrostic
• one tanka
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• inspired by Carolee Sherwood ’s day 27 prompt at read write poem to write an acrostic
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Evolution
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Even in chaos nature finds balance.
Violent floods beget fertile fields.
One thing ends, another begins.
Life is a cycle of birth and death.
Untamed wildfire creates forest [...]
NaPoWriMo #26 - Power / Alternatives
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, action, art, courage, joy, music, mystery, photo, suspense, wisdom
This is my twenty-sixth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Jill Crammond Wickham’s day 26 prompt at read write poem
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Power
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let us speak of power
the writer’s words
the artist’s eye
the craftsman’s hands
the singer’s voice
the player’s soul
the actor’s courage
all who rise up in creativity
to share their gift
who elevate our humanness
shun [...]
NaPoWriMo #25
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, courage, erotic, food, humor, mystery, photo, satire, sensuality, suspense, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-fifth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Joseph Harker’s day 25 prompt at read write poem
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Hotaslava
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I will not forget you
memory still burns
tearful recollection of the first time
my eyes beheld your luscious curves
skin smooth as satin
golden as you lay before me
seductive in the summer sun
you [...]
NaPoWriMo #24 - part 2: His Cane
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, gratitude, joy, love, mystery, photo, sensuality, suspense, wisdom
This is part 2 of my twenty fourth post for National Poetry Month 2010
…this piece that follows was inspired by the April 23rd prompt at Magpie Tales…
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His Cane
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he is a stern man
she knows it
she finds him irresistible
she loves his stern face
his stern smile
his stern voice
she knows him
like no other
she has seen through
the part in the [...]
NaPoWriMo #24 - In Vain / Daddy’s Girl
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, action, courage, dark, family, humor, humor noir, love, mystery, photo, satire, suspense, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-fourth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• This poem that follows is inspired by Marie Gauthier’s NaPoWriMo day 23 prompt at readwritepoem to find and use a colloquial phrase — and by the current frustration I am feeling trying to deliver on my promise of at [...]
NaPoWriMo #23 - Skyward Suite / Midnight Gliding
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, food, gratitude, humor, joy, love, mystery, photo, suspense, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-third post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one three-poem suite
• one tanka
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• the first poem is inspired by Sage Cohen’s day 23 prompt at read write poem
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Spread Offense
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…making PB&J, as a wrestling match…
it appears everything is ready
for a great competition today
this has been the moment
we’ve anticipated
since the [...]
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 #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 [...]
NaPoWriMo #6 - The Cast / The Rise
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, joy, mystery, photo, suspense
Rhiannon had suggested in the day 6 NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem that we sort through a collection of our pictures as inspiration for this day’s poem. Although I veered a bit from her precise suggestion, the process of sorting brought me to the pictures I have of my fishing adventures, and that [...]
A Poet’s Journey
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, art, courage, dark drama, homage, mystery, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #30
This is the thirtieth and the final of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
As this poem marks the end of my poetic journey through National Poetry Month 2009, I’ve decided to do a rewrite of a poem, the [...]
