• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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Nelle Lytle put forth a fascinating and challenging prompt at Read Write Prompt for day #4 of NaPoWriMo. We were to look at things inside out. At first I was perplexed. I kicked a number of ideas around and was hitting the wall, when it struck that inside out is a condition of perspective – a point from which things are viewed. You see one from the other.
I started thinking about situations in which I view one from the other, when it hit me – time! I continually view the “other†aspect of time from where I am… looking at the past or future while being in the present. That’s all it took. My muse (and Ram Dass) carried me from there.
I not only wrote a new poem, I created a new collage. Thanks Nelle! 😉
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the future — the past
tomorrow — yesterday
time’s not hard and fast
moments slip away
fretting what we miss
we ponder destiny
yet today is all there is
ever was — will ever be
days not yet arrived
ones that slipped away
not present in our lives
there only is today
can’t change what’s gone astray
or know what is to come
embrace what is this day
stop running to and from
forget the come and gone
all the who what when and how
don’t get lost looking beyond
learn to truly be here – NOW
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turning clocks forward
evenings last longer now
so too will my smile
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poem and haiku by: rob kistner © 2010
Turning clocks backward
evenings are shorter now
so too will my slow
from inhabitant of topsy turvy
back to front land
Your haiku is pretty good for a collagist:)
Collage is good too (you didn’t whip that one
up in 10 minutes!)
oops that should be smile!
Stunning collage – if only…
Crazy thing NOW is – it’s here and gone just like that, yet it lasts forever…
Our clocks stay the same – evening is an unwanted – short – sauna! 10 min sunset at 6.15ish – pitch black by 7 – 34C overnight last night!
Nice work with a tough prompt, Rob! Great reminder to be here now.
A beautiful presentation, this post. The music speaks to the words and images. Now. Gorgeous.
I especially like the haiku.
Hi Rob,
Really like the poem and the collage, though like Rall I can’t believe you just created that! The haiku is fun – but true
as wonderful as always!
love it!
Merciless Mentor
lovely collage. time as the chambered nautilus. they’re like moibus strips, all surface, inside and out the same
Good work with a challenging prompt.
so what do i look at –
collage, poem , haiku
haiku, collage poem
or try to get the screen just so that i can see them all at once! lol
Thanks all –
Rall / Derrick… “Time” the new collage you see above, came from work I had sketched but unfinished, as I have many. Nelle’s prompt pushed me to use the two hours between reading the prompt and publishing the link, to pull the work into a publishable draft — it is still not completely to my satisfaction.
If you look in my sidebar you will see a link to other collages I have created, and put up online. If you look down in the comments section of that post you will find my brief explanation of how I create my collages.
Check it out… 😉
niced one Rob…in the moment….thanks for this
Simply live with the present and enjoy every bit of it. Past is over, never brood on it, but reminiscing it we can do so…don’t worry o’re future…it will just come!
Beautiful poem of reality Rob!
Lovely work!
That certainly is the truth: that there is only today. A long line of todays that are woven into the tapestry of time. Thank you for sharing.
Here and now are indeed all we have. But the sum of our experience is what got us here, now. And what we add to that sum will determine where we are in the ext moment. This is why (I think) here and now are so very critical.
time ephemeral and yet all we have
wonderful poems, both