Spellbound
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, collage, courage, dark, ecstatic, joy, love, memories, photorendering, suspense, tragedy, wisdom, wonder
and further inspired by prompt #14 at We Write Poems…
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you are enigma
darkness and shadow
you veil and shroud
fire and light
you incandesce
torch my essence
burn deep my soul
trouble my spirit
unsettle my being
ignite my wonder
whet my seeker’s vessel
with need
to be filled full
at once familiar
yet
exotically foreign
wonderfully strange
wrongly boxed but
exquisitely wrapped
in angst
indignation
longing
discovery
loss
love
with all these
and infinitely more
you reach an empty place
deep within
echoing my past
awakening my myths
exposing
that which I embrace
in the moment
as truth
stirring my pain
my anger
my loneliness
my hope
offering just enough answer
that I combust with question
sacred uncertainty
I’m held
suspended in inquiry
in memories of neverwas
enrapt by your careful words
transfixed by mystery
elevated by insight
impaled by vision
spellbound
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rob kistner © 2010
August 8th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
This one left me spellbound. It’s magical
August 8th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
…’infinitely more’ is right - but you covered the main points that explain the attraction, fascination and wonder of the creative process.
August 8th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Thank you Nara…
…rob
August 8th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
It’s a magical thing Stan…
…rob
August 10th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Like the mysticism here…
half-way through
August 10th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Thank you Gautami…
…rob
August 11th, 2010 at 4:08 am
You have said a lot about both the creative process and reading a piece of created work! Spellbinding!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Lists within lists, yet focused and direct. The Creative process is worth a life time of exploration.
Elizabeth
August 11th, 2010 at 8:19 am
Oh Rob, this is gorgeous. I felt every word deep within. Bravo!
~Brenda
August 11th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Thank you Mary…
…rob
August 11th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Worth many lifetimes ElizaBeth…
…rob
August 11th, 2010 at 10:01 am
Thank you very much Brenda, your words are gratifying…
…rob
August 11th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
This chimes with my own feelings about creativity. I particularly liked the stanza:
“enrapt by your careful words
transfixed by mystery
elevated by insight
impaled by vision”
ViV
August 11th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Creative minds think alike Viv…
…rob
August 11th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Nice, Rob! I particularly like the encapsulization of these lines:
at once familiar
yet
exotically foreign
wonderfully strange
Very much the task of the artist, that, to take the familiar and defamiliarize it, to take the unfamiliar and make it like smooth, well-worn leather.
August 11th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Thank you Paul, I appreciate your kind words…
…rob
August 12th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
I also combust Rob reading your spellbound words.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Gosh Rob, it’s busy inside the poet-you. Maybe I’m glad I’m too simple minded for all of that!
Love the lines, “wrongly boxed but / exquisitely wrapped”. Made me smile!
August 13th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Thank you Irene…
…rob
August 13th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Neil, it is far too “busy” inside my head — but I have learned to live with it… my wife might argue the point of how effectively I do or do not cope…
…rob