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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...
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...
Fashion Faux Pas
NaPoMo poem #23 This is the twenty third of the poems I will write this April, in honor of National Poetry Month, as proclaimed by the Academy of American Poets. This is a bit of whimsy inspired by the read write poem NaMoWriMo prompt #23, “a d...
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...
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 ...
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...
Offbeat
NaPoMo poem #18-A This is poem eighteen-A 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 prompt at Sunday Scribblings. Prompt was “language&#...
Bohemian Tie-Dye
NaPoMo poem #18-B This is poem eighteen-B 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 suggestion from Andy Sewina, aka SweetTalking Guy. This is...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
