Posts Tagged ‘arrogance’
Bohemian Nightfall
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, action, american sentence, dark drama, homage, humor noir, music, mystery, satire, sensuality, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #11
This is the eleventh of the poems I will be writing each day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This poem is inspired by three past and two upcoming films — which were based, sometimes loosely, on four timeless novels.
The past movies are: [...]
Ziggy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, humor, humor noir, mystery, rhyme
NaPoMo poem #7
This is the seventh of the poems I will be writing each day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
• NOTE: these poems will all essentially be early drafts, so edits may occur after their initial posting.
Ziggy
So Good
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, humor noir, satire, sketch
• Here is a bit of lighthearted noir tongue-in-cheek…
So Good
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do not take this as precocious
but in business I’m ferocious
I wheel the deal with an artist’s feel
I rip the meat down to the bone
if I do say so – I’m incredible
so good, I’m almost edible
brains and brawn, I’m bright as the dawn
I’m on my game and [...]
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 [...]
Outrageous
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry
Outrageous
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watch them
see them
in their cavernous dwellings
shrines to excess
to waste
testaments to foolish disregard
for our precious planet
observe them hoist themselves
to command positions
in 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
and [...]
