The Fox & The Feather

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The Fox & The Feather

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oh to glide
in buoyed flight
soar skyward
in sweeping circles
lift high on mighty thermals
never again earthbound
not a prisoner of gravity

this day would be soaring
and swooping
and diving
giving thanks for feathers
and hollow bones

but

I have no hollow bones
I’m just a little fox
with only this one feather

I found it
over there

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rob kistner © 2020

 

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  • The Chill

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    The Chill

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    Three reasonable edits of a single concept:

    VERSION 1

    moonlight
    keeps dark at bay
    pressing in

    night wind stirs
    mocking breath
    of life now lost
    to lightless realm
    beyond this chill
    encircling me

    worn stone step
    where rail eluded
    grasping hand
    as ankle bent
    held oranges spilled

    moon caresses
    tender neck
    once softly kissed
    from which no voice came
    to futile cry

    those lips
    will not know again
    sweet fruit

    nor love

    blackness presses in

    VERSION 2

    moonlight
    keeps dark at bay
    pressing in

    night wind mocking
    life now lost
    beyond this chill

    no emotion
    save grief

    a worn stone step
    a grasp-less hand
    an ankle bent
    held oranges spilled
    tender neck
    once softly kissed
    now broken

    a futile cry

    those lips
    will not know again
    sweet fruit

    nor love

    darkness presses in

    VERSION 3

    moonlight
    keeps dark at bay
    pressing in

    oranges spill
    on worn stone steps
    rail eludes
    grasping hand

    night wind stirs
    scattering
    the futile cry

    mocking
    the breathless life
    lost to the lightless realm
    beyond this encircling chill

    these lips
    will not know again
    sweet fruit

    nor love

    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

     

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  • Who Am I

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    Who Am I

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    I am my memories
    that huddle ’round me
    soft and gentle
    some dim
    some vivid
    through all my days
    and all my nights

    though you are gone
    left much too soon
    just in your springtime
    you are here
    quiet in my memories

    I like
    that you are still with me
    in my heart
    this recall is such sweet ache

    other memories
    from quite near
    and far into the past
    drift forward
    mingled rich
    through the years

    their embrace
    is soothing
    warm as the sun

    memories of others
    I’ve been blessed to love
    a tender tear
    for every one

    the places
    this 6’ frame has been
    the wonders
    these hazel eyes have seen

    the joys
    that painted me
    so brightly

    the sorrows
    that taught me
    the depth of life

    in these memories
    there is a sweetness
    it holds my heart
    tempered
    by just a touch
    of soft regret
    that at times
    bowed this silvered head

    my heart is full
    my spirit calm
    a peaceful surrender
    to fate’s embrace

    that precious
    unfurled strand
    from there to here
    from then to now

    would that these memories
    never end

    but soon
    the flames of recall
    will falter
    as the lingering embers die

    it’s then I’m prayer

    when I am called
    among the memories
    would that I be
    carried away
    in stillness
    delivered off
    in sleep
    forever wrapped
    in all it is
    I am

    I am my memories

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    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

     

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  • Eavesdropping

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    Eavesdropping

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    sun sits low on the horizon
    dusk slowly advances
    night’s chill is settling
    all the dreams have gone to bed

    I sit quietly
    close by this fire
    soothed by its crackling
    eavesdropping on my wife
    reading our child
    bedtime stories

    soul’s settled
    heart’s full

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    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

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  • Up a Tree

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    Up a Tree

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    the king of beasts has gone up a tree
    says it’s a better vantage point to see
    the evil that’s happening everywhere
    yet much of the human herd don’t care
    that lies and disease are running wild
    it seems that they have been beguiled
    prudent folk seem to have been struck blind
    the other fools have simply lost their mind
    the king says he is not coming down
    ‘til Trump and Covid are chased from town

    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

     

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  • Lauria at the Speed of Light

  • remembering a great performer, good friend, former bandmate, lost to Covid-19
     

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    Lauria at the Speed of Light

    ~

  • did I ever tell you about Lauria
    living at the speed of light
    blazing through the midday sky
    rocketing through the night

    she was a natural wonder
    a miracle to behold
    soared through time like a lightning flash
    unwilling to ever grow old

    streaking through the universe
    a meteor of flesh and bone
    racing high above on wings of dreams
    like a shooting star she shone

    mystery sister of Aoede & Terpsichore
    she’s a goddess of dance and song
    she’d cast her beguiling lyrical spell
    and hold captive her mesmerized throng

    the news came late last weekend
    Lauria was nowhere in sight
    last seen circling a midnight star
    moving at the speed of light

    people who knew Lauria well
    were sure it was what they’d feared
    she had finally outdistanced time
    and mystically disappeared

    never ever to be seen again
    no way — no how — nowhere
    she’d lived life at such velocity
    she blazed out like a beautiful flare

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    oh, would her end have been such magic
    whirled away in an enchanted gust
    sadly she was felled by a virulent evil
    smaller than a speck of stardust

    R.I.P.

    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

     

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  • Hedone’s Lovers

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines erotic as: “of, relating to, exciting, or expressing sexual attraction or desire”

    ALERT: Erotic poetry for adults only…

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    Hedone’s Lovers

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    radiant vision silken skinned
    translucent alabaster blaze
    you’re torrid as a teen’s temptation

    I’m a kindle’d lover’s pyre
    tinder poised
    with slightest spark
    near to burn

    wrapped steaming
    in eager hungry arms
    achingly we yearn

    your graceful face
    wanton aglow
    comely raised and tilted back
    my fingers tangled in your hair

    swept away in lustful swoon
    you’re Hedone’s daughter
    lush with nectar
    afire in ardor’s golden flame
    that folds upon you soft as satin

    down glistening back
    that tempting tapers
    to the tender
    warm and sultry

    a wonderland for fingertips
    mine touch
    and tease
    and tantalize

    we explore
    full measure
    our quivering bodIes

    mine chiseled firm
    hammered hard
    smooth as stone
    with Himeros’s brand

    your divinely-pleasing
    sculpted vessel
    brought forth
    by Aphrodite’s hand

    flesh-fruit swells full and ripe
    a silhouette to hypnotize
    enticing in the candle’s flicker
    we fondle freely with wanting eyes

    I twist and tweak
    your blossomed berries
    that burst
    engorged with passion’s heat
    my teeth to nip and tug
    draw to my lips
    to taste

    your tender touch
    soft loving stroke
    drawn slow ‘n steady
    ignites my need
    now full ready
    to firm express

    my willful hands
    of pleasured probing
    wrap slender waist
    then slowly slide
    ‘cross pleading hips
    of sensuous rise
    to fall in frail folds of eros
    molded from the charms of Venus

    ’round dual swells of burning myth
    that writhe
    atop two lathen’d stems
    long and lithe
    as liquid love
    turned by pleasure’s gloried angels
    tempered in a sacred fire

    stretched taut
    arched high
    in carnal roil
    we entwine
    god and goddess buff

    beyond delirium
    I enter rough
    we thrust and thrust
    in randy lust
    ’til passion’s seed
    has turned to dust

    and our wanton
    carnal
    flames
    are snuffed

    love’s raging madness
    at last rebuffed

    ~ ~ ~

    rob kistner © 2020

     

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