Posts Tagged ‘extinction’
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 #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 #13 - The Nature of Fire / Gone
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Haiku, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, courage, dark, mystery, photo, tragedy, wisdom
This is my thirteenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• one free verse poem
• one haiku
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…this piece was inspired by a prompt by Sarah J. Sloat over at read write poem…
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The Nature of Fire
A Poem Using Three Lines from Norman Dubie’s “Of Politics & Art”
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(the borrowed lines are italicized)
here
on the farthest point of the peninsula
an [...]
Caisson
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, dark, mystery, photorendering, prayer, science fiction, tragedy, wisdom
Caisson
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see you
see you in this carrion half-light
unworthy scavengers
you cluster to ravage
to defile the entity
drawn in this caisson
but you cannot
the living presence it bore
is greater than you
your gluttonness lust
might pick the meat clean
pick the bones dry
but this being has lived well beyond the muscle
beyond the sinew tendon and bone
these were its limits
now it is set free
so [...]
Alchemy
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, art, dark, mystery, science fiction, wisdom
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Morning in the Neighborhood
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, NaPoMo 2009, Poetry, courage, dark drama, suspense, wisdom
NaPoMo poem #12
This is the twelfth 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.
Morning in the Neighborhood
Faster Faster
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, mystery, rhyme, wisdom
Faster Faster
Killer
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, mystery
Killer
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…put two bullets in his brain
I shot him twice
at close range
to witness
the power of life
crossing over
and
to feel him die…
cool precision
in a quite rage
sacred act
of raw release
purity of instinct
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rob kistner © 2009
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NOTE: The poem above was written in response to the prompt, “The Other Side” — posted by the Totally Optional Prompt writing prompt [...]
Voices of the Ancestors
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, photo, wisdom
Voices of the Ancestors
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here
in this earthen abode
the voices of your elders
rose with the night fire
a hallowed blaze
of enlightenment
warming you
with the knowledge
of the ancestors
but the sacred fire
is dieing
its embers
now near ashen
who will stir to flame
this smoldering wisdom
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rob kistner © 2009
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drawing above entitled: “house on fire ruin” — by: illryion
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…poem inspired by read [...]
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 [...]
