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Creative writing, poetry and artwork by me, Rob Kistner. I also share some of my furniture designs, my wife's fiber art, and I have some rants & rambles. Most recently I started a podcast of spoken word.
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A Poet’s Journey
I have written 35 poems during National Poetry Month 2009. They all follow in descending order, beginning here with NaPoMo poem #30, “A Poet’s Journey”. To read them scroll down - reading all or any you’d like. Thank you fo...
So Many Gifts
NaPoMo poem #29 This is the twenty ninth and the penultimate 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 a tongue-in-cheek, but well intentioned look at life...
Unexpected
NaPoMo poem #27 This is the twenty seventh 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 edited rewrite of a older poem of mine and was inspired by a moving pe...
Becoming
NaPoMo poem #26 This is the twenty sixth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This is my second metaphysical poem in two days, and was inspired by the NaPoWriMo promp...
Being Now
NaPoMo poem #25 This is the twenty fifth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This was inspired by a prompt at read write poem to write a “how to” about s...
My Words
NaPoMo poem #24 This is the twenty fourth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This is about a poet struggling with inspiration, pressing to break through writer̵...
Dissonance
NaPoMo poem #24-A This is poem twenty-four-A of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This, like poem #24, is also about a poet struggling with inspiration, trying to blo...
Spellbound
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 ...
Stir of Love
NaPoMo poem #18 This is the eighteenth of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This poem was inspired by a short story I wrote a few years ago, based on personal experie...
15 Days To Go
NaPoMo poem #16 This is the sixteenth 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 o...
Otherworldy
NaPoMo poem #15-A This is fifteen-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 is a bit of sci-fi poetry, inspired by a flash fiction fantasy story I ...
Chilling Reality
NaPoMo poem #13 This is the thirteenth 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. It’s a bit of poetic whimsy inspired by a Wordle posted on the read...
Bohemian Nightfall
NaPoMo poem #11 This is the eleventh 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 three past and two upcoming films — which we...
Val
NaPoMo poem #10 This is the tenth 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. Suggested by read write poem as a poem for day 10 of National Poetry Month; th...
Rapt
NaPoMo poem #9 This is the ninth 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 ...
My First
NaPoMo poem #8 This is the eighth 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...
Ziggy
NaPoMo poem #7 This is the seventh 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 occu...
This Path
NaPoMo poem #6 This is the sixth 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 ...
3rd Time - Love
NaPoMo poem #3 This is the third 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 ...
Bridge of Dreams
NaPoMo poem #2 This is the second 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...
Skyward
…photo below entitled “Followed by a Dream”, by Pensiero… Skyward • if I could but glide to the top of these stairs like a freebird suspended in flight I would soar skyward in mighty circles lifted on bold thermals ...
Elders
Elders...
Love & War (two poems)
Love & War The Nightmare • 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 mercifull...
Supple Soul
…photo below entitled “Strange Fruit”, by Lucas Rocha… Supple Soul • rise up now clad in colors of a joyful life rebuke the strife tilt against convention the prevailing norm is a toxic storm buck the winds of brut...
The Hunger
The Hunger • filled with passion you gaze longingly upon the tender treat that’s spread before you waiting the flesh is soft and moist and pink as slowly you penetrate then gently lift you feel the quivering mass slide full upo...
Sunrise Requiem
*early draft… Sunrise Requiem...
Seasons of Love
Seasons of Love...
Continuum
Continuum • 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 ...
Frozen Man
Frozen Man • stopping is no option to lose the way is to keep going keep moving forward lest one atrophies rigid with despair unbending doubt locked and paralyzed gawking inward at hopelessness the giving in the giving up the rot tha...
As Art Is
As Art Is • art is the source and destination art is the consumer and the consumed art is the query and the response art is the coming and the going art is the beginning and the end art is the light and the enlightened art is the sor...
