Posts Tagged ‘art’
Unyeilding
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, collage, humor noir, photorendering, rhyme
Unyeilding
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my muse is hard to capture
though I do try each day
just goes so fast
I turn around
it’s past me in a blur
leaving little inspiration
each day becomes each night
here I sit in the wee hours
while the sane sleep
steeped in contradiction
thoughts vague
filled with doubt
words tossed about the unyielding page
I start then stop
I write then not
caught mercilessly unclear
in [...]
Spellbound
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, art, love story, mystery, photorendering, rhyme, sensuality
NaPoMo poem #20
This is the twentieth of the poems I will write this 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.
This poem was inspired by the image below entitled “The Bride [...]
Love & War (two poems)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, Poetry, Spoken Word, art, collage, dark drama, love story, mystery, photorendering, suspense, wisdom
Love & War
The Nightmare
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my eyes
crisp from the day’s cruel sun
burnt by devastation’s fires
scorched by images of relentless horror
take refuge
in this late-evening fog
settling heavy as a shroud
clinging
opaque
mercifully obscuring
I am sustained
by this damp pall
that descends cool upon me
wraps ‘round my pained countenance
fevered with fatigue
twisted with despair
drawn
by a faded memory of honor
a faint echo of duty
a frayed thread [...]
The Shine
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, photorendering, sketch, wisdom
The Shine
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I sit
watch the flow of people
the shuffle of feet
with their different sounds
according to their shoes
I see wan faces
of unsmiling lips
their void curves denounce this night
yet unseen
is the gossamer curtain’s fall
that defines their soul’s duality
the divergent reality
through which truth stumbles blind
to move in the world
rough as a rope
taut as every promise made
frayed as wisdom
leaned in
whispered [...]
Frozen Man
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, mystery, photorendering, wisdom
Frozen Man
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stopping is no option
to lose the way is to keep going
keep moving forward
lest one atrophies
rigid with despair
paralyzed with doubt
locked in hopelessness
the giving up
is the giving in
to the rot that sets with the loss of wonder
when grip lets go of dreams
loss of faith debilitates the soul
cripples the manifest light
that shines at the leap into sacred [...]
