Posts Tagged ‘joy’
NaPoWriMo #17 - Memories
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Image, NaPoMo 2010, Poetry, Tanka, dark, family, gratitude, homage, joy, love, mystery, photo, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
This is my seventeenth post for National Poetry Month 2010
• two free verse poems
• one tanka
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…this piece that follows was inspired by the April 15th prompt at Magpie Tales…
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Engraved
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he places it in my trembling hand
as he lays dying
it marked sacred
all the precious moments
of our life together
be they great
be they small
all are in here
the moment he [...]
Identity
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry
Identity
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I came upon a stranger
she asked me
“who are you?”
I pondered
then replied
I am son
born
to a mother unknown
a father
unseen
I am father
three times blessed
with life’s miracle
I am joy
having beheld
each child’s coming
I am betrothed
touched by
a lover’s heart
I am sorrow
having lost
my eldest son
I am wonder
marveling
at the gift of life
the beauty
of this natural realm
I am song
fortuned with
a lyric voice
I am art
bestowed [...]
