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Alchemy

“Went digging through some of my older poetry to find this piece I wrote 9 years ago, March 2010. I remember being inspired to write it watching Hermione’s love potion scene in ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price.’ I had just purchased the DVD at the time. My grandson was watching the DVD last night, which put me in mind of this poem. Wanted to share it here for dVerse OLN #252. It contains very minimal revision and a slight upgrade in graphic embellishment”

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Alchemy

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you cannot change
a heart of iron
into a heart of gold

no precious warmth
will manifest
from something hard and cold

a love that’s locked
and set in cast
can never be set free

there is no hope
nor magic spell
not even alchemy

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you cannot stop
the hands of time
from spinning ever on

when the sand
is through the hourglass
those days are ever gone

you cannot bring summer back
when the leaves
are off the tree

there is no hope
nor magic spell
not even alchemy

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rob kistner © 2010
revision © 2019

 

  • Click below to check out some fine poetry at dVerse:

    OpenLinkNight #252

    • Ziggy

    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

    •

    ivory silk french-cuffed bar-collared shirt
    soft as butter sweet as cream dessert

    cuff links of diamonds and pure white gold
    a heady treasure – bourgeois and bold

    pearl-stick-pinned satin tie knotted tight
    elegant as paris on a saturday night

    desert-tan gabardine three-pleat slacks
    euro-cuffed razor-creased sharp as tacks

    snakeskin braces buttoned sterling bright
    hip and killer as a rattler’s bite

    black-patton striders with alligator spats
    steppin’ out classy as the coolest cats

    fine pinstriped linen coat double-breasted
    uptown savvy and velvet vested

    full-blocked rolled-brim felt chapeau
    in the deepest red of a fine bordeaux

    he was crisp and smooth as a dry martini
    they all called him ziggy
    but his name was bob

    • • •

    rob kistner © 2009

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    • you can find other NaPoMo offerings at read write poem

     

    So Good

    • Here is a bit of lighthearted noir tongue-in-cheek…

    So Good

    •

    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 in the zone

    unyielding in a meeting
    I administer a beating

    I kill their will, I’m king of the hill
    my demeanor is cold as stone

    I am hungry and I’m ruthless
    while the others all seem toothless

    they hop, then drop, it’s me at the top
    yes at the top I stand alone

    at the top

    I am

    alone

    • • •

    rob kistner © 2008

    Outragesauras

    Outragesauras

    •

    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 the brink of no return
    to satisfy toxic arrogance

    extinction’s revenge

    • • •

    rob kistner © 2008

    cartoon by: mike baldwin

    • discover other dinosaurs at readwritepoem

    Outrageous

    Outrageous

    •

    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 depletion

    by frivolous toys
    of self-extinction

    that spew forth
    poisonous discharge

    fouling the atmosphere

    pummeling our frail ecosystem

    shoving earth closer
    ever closer
    to the brink of no return

    to satisfy a toxic desire
    for bigger
    gaudier
    faster

    hungrier

    to feed
    a caustic ego

    to assert
    perceived dominion

    they are the elite
    the special

    the outrageously dangerous

    they
    are you and I

    • • •

    rob kistner © 2008