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 ash.

The ashen remains nurture growth again.

In the caterpillar lives the butterfly.

One thing ends, another begins.

Now and forever, the mandella spins.

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Stone Fox First

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garage sound check great

groupies at the ludlow door

allmans soon to start

damned duane is still m-i-a

we stone fox boys are ready

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• acrostic and tanka by: rob kistner © 2010

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…check out who’s gettin’ acrostic at readwritepoem…

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Permalink | Comments (10) | Apr 27, 2010

10 Responses to “NaPoWriMo #27”

  1. Stan Ski Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 3:03 am

    What goes around…
    I can neither play an instrument nor sing - always envied those who could; espicially those who wrote and played their own.

  2. Joanne Johns Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 5:12 am

    That’s a very tidy acrostic you’ve got there! Nice work :)

  3. Dan Rako Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 5:19 am

    The wheel stops for no man.

  4. Mojo Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 5:58 am

    They’re still backstage trying to sober Dwayne up ;)

    Do love the process of Evolution as you describe it. Marvelous. Each thing in its season.

  5. Maureen Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 7:46 am

    Nice acrostic. It doesn’t seem forced, as some acrostics are, and I like how you’ve sustained the subject matter.

  6. vivienne blake Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 8:38 am

    Great acrostic. I didn’t ‘get’ the Tanka - garage is not my scene.

  7. Rob Kistner Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Yo’ ViV -

    The Ludlow Garage scene was one hip happenin’. This is where the sound system from Woodstock took up residence, and where my band, Stone Fox, was the opening act for groups like the Allman Brothers. Their lead guitar player Duane Allman, was incredible — and a notorious flake. Duane, not Eric Clapton, did the glorious ascending guitar licks on the Derek and the Dominos great song, Layla. He died tragically crashing a motorcycle under the influence — of something?

    Now you ‘got’ it Viv… ;)

    …rob

  8. J. D. Mackenzie Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Rob, all I need to abandon creationism. Well written, an almost religious feel to it.

  9. pamela Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    Two excellent poems!
    Pamela

  10. wayne Says:
    April 27th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    dam you opened for th A Bros…wow…good one….so your poems….thanks for sharing this Rob

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