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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...
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...
For Granted
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. Embedd...
I will Not Forget
NaPoMo poem #19 This is the nineteenth 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 an older poem I’d written, but not completed to my...
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...
Gone / A Leaf
NaPoMo poem #17 & #17-A This is a pair of poems I offer for the seventeenth day here in April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. These two works, though written separately, have revealed themselve...
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 ...
Morning in the Neighborhood
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 occ...
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...
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...
