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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...
Seven Red
NaPoMo poem-set #28 This is the twenty eighth day of poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This set of seven haiku were inspired by the read write poem NaPoWriMo prompt #28, ...
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...
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...
Our Dreams
NaPoMo poem #21 This is twenty first 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 wedding prayer inspired by the read write poem NaMoWriMo prompt #21, “r...
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...
Two Views
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 fr...
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 ...
The Return
NaPoMo poem #14 This is the fourteenth 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 ...
Orchid
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 ...
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...
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...
Still Life
NaPoMo poem #5 This is the fifth 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 ...
Splendid Fool
NaPoMo poem #1 This is the first 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. As April 1st is also ‘Fools Day’, I felt the subject of this piece...
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...
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...
