…inspired by this Kyknoord illustration, offered as a visual prompt at “readwritepoem”.
This Heart is Yours
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this heart is yours
this damaged heart
this brittle
fractured
aching heart
broken
in your cold cruel hands
abused
then cast aside
I’ve no use for this ruined heart
I plucked it from my chest
I seek a warm and vital heart
now begins my quest
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rob kistner © 2008
Relentless Repetition
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hostage to a hopeless din
of relentless repetition
clarity
held captive
in confusion’s grip
trapped in a whirl
of brute cacophony
shouts
screams
wails
bellows
stuttered stammered curses
the chatter wells
inside my head
unbearably insistent
oh
to squelch the jibberish
but
puppet does not listen
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rob kistner © 2008
• written in response to a prompt from readwritepoem
Please!
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inquiries of heart
from summer red lover’s lips
float like butterflies
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rob kistner © 2008
Too Long in the Shadow
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smothered by big oil
our blue planet is dying
trapped in greed’s shadow
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future is mortgaged
to petrochemical lust
fatal addiction
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mankind is drowning
in a flood of fossil fuel
swept t’ward extinction
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3D color rendering at top depicts a piece entitled: “Too Long in the Shadow”
by: rob kistner © 2008
Detail displayed below the depiction is 1/4 scale of actual size
Original artwork is 24″Tall x 30″Wide
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Dark Dock
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the lone light
hanging heavy
in the night dew
from the bow ring
searches its beam
fractured
‘cross the chop water
for the dark dock
for home
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rob kistner © 2008
Summer
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green leaves on blue pond
float in golden summer sun
red bird softly sings
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rob kistner © 2008
Robobert's watching!
