Posts Tagged ‘illustration’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Poets - (anatomy of a rewrite)
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, editorial, wisdom
This poem, entitled “The Poets”, is a major rewrite inspired, over a decade later, by the original which I wrote in 1997, and which you will find following this piece…
• • • this comparative exercise was inspired by the blog “Totally Optional Prompts”
The Poets
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damaged in their special ways
they like the path unclear
the route unmarked
fond of [...]
Continuum
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, mystery, photo, wisdom
Continuum
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emerald eyes stare
fix me in their grasp
lift me into the realm
of unfinished dreams
strip me of fear
longing
of inhibition
render me transparent
as I rise weightless
unburdened of care
an untethered being of pure moment
filled with universes within universes
a vessel of time and space
ever-expanding consciousness
aware of all
not as separate
but as the is - the was - the to become
with infinite reach
embracing [...]
Sunrise Requiem
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, Poetry, art, mystery
…this poem was inspired by two wonderful lines of refrain provided by Michelle McGrane…
Sunrise Requiem
Goodgolicous
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, humor, mystery, rhyme, satire, sensuality
…this jabberwockical poem was inspired by prompt #68 at “readwritepoem”…
Goodgolicous
SeaLife
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, Poetry, art, humor noir, mystery
SeaLife
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To the seaside she strolls
with me
On a sunny seaside day
Into the sea she slips
alone
Then silently swims away
The sea opens up and
swallows
In its watery deep sea way
Soon she’ll be down with the
fishes
Aswim in the seabed’s sway
Serene in the spledor of
sea life
Neptune’s beauty in array
She seeks solace in this
sea world
These blues keep her blues at bay
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Some sketch art…
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Image, art, sketch
Waiting
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