Posts Tagged ‘abuse’
Silence - two reflections
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, dark, horror, regret, tragedy, wisdom
These two poetic reflections are unrelated, beyond their focus on silence. The first reflection here considers what it is to fall into the deepening silence of old age. The second reflection looks at the silence that causes, and also results from repression…
1ST REFLECTION
Endings
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shrouded by evening in waning october
as autumn tumbles towards winter
is [...]
Trouble Comes to Dry Gulch
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, courage, dark, family, gratitude, horror, love, mystery, photo, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
• In response to the 4th prompt on the newly re-opened Writer’s Island, I introduce you to my imaginary childhood friend. In the heart of a terrified young boy, he was more than real…
Trouble Comes to Dry Gulch
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you were my truest friend
my steady rock of safety
my captain of escape
you were always there
the amazing man [...]
Outragesauras
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, humor noir, satire
Outragesauras
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beware the outragesauras
gluttonous drive-time dinosaurs
dreaded treaded behemoths
that bully across the face of our crippled planet
devouring resources
like a herd of metallic mastodons
a relentless forage of fragile fossil fuel
to suck dry the paleozoic nectar
300 million years in the making
a fraction of that in the plunder
they spew forth poisonous discharge
fouling the atmosphere
pummeling our frail ecosystem
shoving earth closer
ever closer
to [...]
