Promise Kept

“This is a prayer for peace at this end of year”

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Promise Kept

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would that the world pause with me this night

with open heart and thoughts of possibility

remembering when dreams were young

the breath of life so warm and fresh

beauty was in all we touched

love filled us overflowing

trust real as sunlight

truth was bedrock

tomorrow was

a promise

kept

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rob kistner © 2018

Artwork entitled: “Gentle World” by: rob kistner © 2005

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  • 54 thoughts on “Promise Kept”

      1. And Bjorn. it balances precariously so! And so much has gone so wrong, but I hope in this coming yesr, there is balance enough to restructure a more stable foundation…

    1. Lovely, hopeful and bang on, brother. I certainly miss those days when /truth was bedrock/. Here’s hoping Trump’s reign will self-implode in a shitstorm of stupidity, and you and I survive yet another year. We have words to write and grandchildren to spoil and hug.

    2. Well Rob, my first time here and I really like this… And if you really want to get wierded out – check out my submission tonight – such a resonance in theme between us this time round in what for me is turning out to be a bit of a spooky evening…

    3. Love, trust and truth as bedrock…. I walk with you in this journey of peace.

      Thank you for your active particpation (again) at dVerse.

      Merry Christmas to you and yours & all the best for 2019!!

      1. Thank you Grace… I am an old hippie from the early 60’s, when peace and love was a goal, anf not a marketing slogan to sell drugs. All the blessings of a new year of hope to you and yours… 🙂

      1. Thank you Toni. I can be an easy pessimist, because my heart gets broken a lot when it comes to faith in people… but my heart continues to reach to fsith in people, and these words come from my heart…

    4. Sadly, Rob, it’s so easy to say words and do nothing to make deeds of action. One has only to look, at the struggle to control green gases emissions. Maybe, one day, we’ll be worthy of this dream. One can only hope.

    5. It really is sad that we forget the simpler days of love and caring that brought people together rather than attitudes pushing them apart Nicely done. Turn it over for a Christmas Tree!

      1. The world will never go back to those kinder gentler times, I just intend to keep speaking out in hope that this planet does not emotionally collapse in upon itself. You found my inverted tree Dwight. But If I turn it over my wife will make me help her decorate the damned thing. One a season is more than enough… 🙂

    6. ‘Beauty was in all we touched’ so true
      I hope we keep our child like wonder alive and I am sure we can keep these promises for our future generation…
      Peace!

    7. I love the shape of this poem, Rob, like an icicle or the point of a star. I also like the shift from the nostalgic ‘remembering when dreams were young’ to hopes and dreams in tomorrow’s promise.
      Best wishes for a joy-filled Christmas and a happy new year!

      1. I just hope it’s not symbolic of a countdown Kim… the entire body of the content balances on the possibility of a promise kept… I was being nostalgic of the time when the promise of a tomorrow was honored. I hope we can remain that confidant of our tomorrows…

      1. In better days Jane, the stability of our tomorrow’s were promised, and that was a “promise kept”, because we never used to fear the uncertainty of our tomorrow’s. In these days however, things are so unsettled, the guarantee of tomorrow isn’t quite as certain. Many people don’t make it to their tomorrow. But I am hoping, and this poem is my voice raised, that we can return to those more stable times that I describe in this piece. And everyone’s tomorrow’s will be promises kept.

    8. oh for remembering when dreams were young and so were we, a sweet poem Rob and so love the Christmas tree you have put up, blessings for 2019

    9. I love the way the construction of this poem visually asks the reader to slow down and focus. This is such a touchingly earnest piece. It makes me take a deep breath and hope that we find a way to remember what hope felt like.

      1. The form played a very key role in my writing of this poem Rommy, because I wanted to stress the need to make our tomorrows full of promise, and honesty… so I drove the shape down to that point.

      1. Christine, what a beautiful and powerful perspective on the shape of this piece. I love ehat you envision here! 🙂 As I commented to Rommy above, the shape was intentional to lead the poem to the point of keeping tomorrow(s) full of promise, and honest integrity…

    10. Thank you very much Sanaa, very gracious comment. I see you were trying to insert an emoji. I apologize that my blog doesn’t seem to understand them. Mine is a long-standing template, from a time before emoji’s. I am trying to solve the issue.

    11. kaykuala

      would that the world pause with me this night
      with open heart and thoughts of possibility

      There is so much hope given the extent of damage that is still going on. Very incisive take Rob!

      Hank

    12. Life always offers promise it is just that as the years pass, the promises change and we must be alert to see them.

      1. With this crazy world we live in Roslyn, I am far more worried if there will even be a promise of a tomorrow. I dearly hope so for my grandson’s sake, but the odds diminish everyday, now that the inmates are running the asylum…

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