Posts Tagged ‘ecological’
NaPoWriMo #29
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, mystery, science fiction, stream of consciousness, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This is my Twenty-ninth, and penultimate post for National Poetry Month 2010
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…this poem was inspired by D.S. Apfelbaum’s day 29 post at readwritepoem…
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Space Is
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a lightless void of soundless vacuum
spinning masses of revolving orbs
hurtling fragments in crystalline vapors
molten cores
mingled gasses
dead husks
black holes
magnetic icefalls
plasma rain
liquid lightening
solid clouds
attractions and repulsions
of precarious fragility
a frozen dance of chaos
on the tentative [...]
NaPoWriMo #27
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, acrostic, action, art, courage, dark, gratitude, homage, joy, love, music, mystery, philosophy, photo, prose, rant, satire, suspense, tragedy, video poem, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-seventh post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one acrostic
• one tanka
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• inspired by Carolee Sherwood ’s day 27 prompt at read write poem to write an acrostic
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Evolution
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Even in chaos nature finds balance.
Violent floods beget fertile fields.
One thing ends, another begins.
Life is a cycle of birth and death.
Untamed wildfire creates forest [...]
NaPoWriMo #26 - Power / Alternatives
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, action, art, courage, joy, music, mystery, photo, suspense, wisdom
This is my twenty-sixth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Jill Crammond Wickham’s day 26 prompt at read write poem
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Power
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let us speak of power
the writer’s words
the artist’s eye
the craftsman’s hands
the singer’s voice
the player’s soul
the actor’s courage
all who rise up in creativity
to share their gift
who elevate our humanness
shun [...]
NaPoWriMo #25
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, courage, erotic, food, humor, mystery, photo, satire, sensuality, suspense, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-fifth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Joseph Harker’s day 25 prompt at read write poem
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Hotaslava
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I will not forget you
memory still burns
tearful recollection of the first time
my eyes beheld your luscious curves
skin smooth as satin
golden as you lay before me
seductive in the summer sun
you [...]
NaPoWriMo #22 - The Gaia Suite
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, courage, dark, editorial, gratitude, homage, joy, love, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
This is my Twenty-second post for National Poetry Month 2010
• an Earth Day message
• two tankas
• one prayer
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• • Happy Earth Day • •
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• Go and visit the Earth Day Action Center 2010, and please — be aware!
An Earth Day message:
These are some thoughts I would like to share on this Earth Day 2010. [...]
NaPoWriMo #21
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, courage, dark, gratitude, joy, love, mystery, photo, prose, whimsy, wisdom
This is my twenty-first post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one short prose
• one tanka
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• inspired by Kristen McHenry’s prompt at read write poem
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As I age, my imperfections begin to manifest themselves more and more. I once was young, and handsome, and strong – but that all is waning, and [...]
NaPoWriMo #18 - Human Arrogance
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, art, collage, courage, dark, horror, mystery, photorendering, rant, suspense, tragedy, wisdom
This is my eighteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one tanka
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• inspired by Irene’s day 18 read write poem prompt / and #49 at carry on tuesday
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…a thing of beauty is a joy forever, a captive wild soul — is a tragedy…
Pacing
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from rippled sinew black as midnight
bores a stare of [...]
NaPoWriMo #10 - Woodpeckers / Hiking
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, gratitude, homage, joy, love, mystery, photo, photorendering, wisdom
This is my tenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was written in the spirit of Pamela Sayers’ prompt “Celebrate!” at read write poem…
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Woodpeckers
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the two red crests are busy
hammering away
peck peck peck
big chucks of the dead pulp
flying in all directions
the elusive couple has come
down into the yard
from [...]
NaPoWriMo #6 - The Cast / The Rise
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, action, joy, mystery, photo, suspense
Rhiannon had suggested in the day 6 NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem that we sort through a collection of our pictures as inspiration for this day’s poem. Although I veered a bit from her precise suggestion, the process of sorting brought me to the pictures I have of my fishing adventures, and that [...]
Duet
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, gratitude, music, mystery, photo
Duet
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rounding a bend
brushing through waist-high fern
I crest a knoll and stop
mesmerized
awash in the warm brushstrokes of evening
filtered through this woodland realm
as the waning sun paints the world golden
below me
a pristine ribbon of silver-blue water
flecked with sunlight
sparkles like a strand of gems
transfixed
I marvel at the beauty
at the power
of this mighty river
as it tumbles in timeless clarity
over [...]
For Granted
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, dark drama, homage, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #22
This is twenty second of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets.
This poem is an homage to Gaia, our mother earth, in celebration of Earth Day 2009. Embedded within this free verse poem are a trio of haiku, [...]
Two Views
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #15
This is the fifteenth 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.
I interpreted today’s read write poem NaPoMo prompt a bit differently from Christine’s example. This is still a response to “instead of”, but [...]
Orchid
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, homage, love story, sensuality
NaPoMo poem #13-A
This is the thirteen-A 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 the most beautiful, most sensual, and my most favorite of all the flowers of our planet — the orchid.
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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 [...]
Gaia Weeps (earth day ‘o8)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Haiku, Poetry
Gaia Weeps
(haiku)
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Man seeks dominion
Frail balance has been disturbed
Gaia is weeping
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