Enraptured

NOTE: When I write a sensual piece, my intention is not to write pornographic, not from a sexually predatory perspective — but rather from a place of deep love and passion, shared by genuinely committed lovers.

 

Last night, I quietly watched you, asleep in the light of the half moon, as it traced the soft edge of dark and light, where it enfolded so gently upon you through the open window, fondling your form.

My eyes embraced full measure, your beautiful essence, to then be lost in the golden tangles of your hair, radiant in the pure moonglow. It fanned out in soft wisps, across your graceful neck, then lay smooth upon your silken breasts, that rose and fell with your breathing. Here I lingered upon the precious tender bud.

As your breath fell, my eyes glided further, down through the valley of your rose petal navel, to be entranced by the velvet flower, sensuously shadowed in the satin cleft, where supple limb met supple limb. Such sensual serenity. I swooned, and swelled to bursting, with love.

I am enraptured
by this vision before me
intoxicating

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rob kistner © 2023

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Manhattan Melancholy

“There’s some longing for home, no matter where we are.” – Robert Frost

 

So far across that big ocean
yet your forever on my mind
sometimes homesick or lonely
hard feeling those combined

I left home so very young
my loving family left behind
found friends here in Lisbon
and memories that will bind

life here’s turned out great
expectations filled, no deny’n
next step in my dream future
has much clearer been refined

here I’ve a richness in my soul
and too a quiet peace of mind
back there folks hurry n’shout
but at heart — most are kind

Manhattan’s May sidewalk bouquet
remembering — I can’t help cryin’
point is, NYC’s stuck in my head
for my big apple, my love is blind

it’s just my Manhattan melancholy
a tough sadness when unconfined
do I ever think about going back
no – it’s to going on I’m inclined

no — never will I go back there
to this reality I am resigned
yet I will always feel the tug
it’s my New York state of mind

*
rob kistner © 2021

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

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The Red Queen

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” – Charles Buxton

 

Does he think me a fool
that I would fall for his ploy
be drawn into his trap
his feeble transparent gambit

I will not

strategy must play out slowly
protection is imperative
but foolhardy aggression

tantamount to failure

the squarely stark contrasts
of extreme dark and light
laid out before me
engage my player’s drive

stir my essence
fire my soul
with the need
to be right

absolutely

I feel sweat droplets
on the verge
but I must stay cool

to show vulnerability
to hint at fear
is deadly

yes — stay cool

this situation
is at once familiar
yet it feels
exotically foreign

anxiety gnaws
at my resolve

the sensation
is a hollow
empty place
deep within

echoing
with uncertainty

but I embrace
the moment

I believe I see
his plan
his diabolical vision

but still
I combust
with questions

yet I know
they bring
the right answers

I see clearly
his obvious next move

and I see mine

I feel joyfully free
elevated by my insight

I’m held transfixed
by this beautiful mystery
that is chess

yes – yes
I see it all
I see it clearly

yet
I must be careful

everything
rides on this

why am I so intense
you wonder

this is not a matter
of life and death
you say

oh no
my friend
oh no

it is far more serious
than simply that


David Maverick © 2007

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rob kistner © 2021

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

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Lighting the Stars

 
Often I dreamed as a boy
searching the sky for aliens
could my wishes come to be
when I’ve grown to be a man

will I someday have money
to buy the things I so want
possibly find love and joy
following a good life plan

success began as a young man
but the grind became my life
too often consumed by stress
caught up in the crazy pace

years spun wild as a top
around faster ever faster
life layered its sad patina
etched deeply in my face

suddenly no longer young
looking back across the years
the triumphs and the tragedy
memory flickering like a flame

I’ve borrowed bought and sold
tried to play life by the rules
but have I leveraged my soul
just to play this fleeting game

now an old man on a bench
gazing at this fragile flower
memories misty as this drizzle
so many mysteries unexplained

body bent by the weight of worry
my mind tumbling in reflection
wondering if everything I lost
was worth what it was I gained

*
rob kistner © 2023

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The Kiss


 
This is how the WriteSonic AI thinks kissing feels:
What your kiss feels like
It’s heavenly and divine
No words can truly explain
The joy it brings to my mind
My lips long for your kiss
And I wait for it to come
Your sweet caress is bliss
It’s something I can’t outrun
Your tender lips on mine
Everything else disappears
It’s like we’re standing in line
Soon we will have no fears

This is how I think kissing feels…

Eyes lock
they subtle a smile
I lean slightly toward you
I slip my arms ‘round you
one hand slides smoothly
up the center of your back
I pull you to me slowly
looking for a sign that you agree

it comes

we begin a deeper more sensusl embrace
feeling our bodies softly pressing
the softness of our bed
the smoothness of our sheets
eye contact never breaks

my head leans in hesitantly
then yours
both our heads tilt slightly
gently to the right
we glide fully into each other
gently lips contact

they play
nipping
tugging
tasting

with growing urgency
heads tilt forword
lips interlock fully
flesh to flesh
we are breathing each other now

eyes close
the sensual kaleidoscope
begins whirling in my head
as I lay you back on our pillows
as our mouths open slightly
lips pout full and softened
but in charge
our mouths now cover each
gentle but firm
feeling the flesh on flesh
lips on lips
and tongues slip willingly
with a stealth urgency
but with gentle passion
our tongues entwine
gently dancing
feeling
surrendering

our bodies have melded to one
as we huskily begin
to consume the passion of the other
time and space fall away
joyful thrill fills my being
I lose time and place completely
the touching of our souls
in a depth of timeless pleasure
we become infinite
one
as time disappears

then

our lips begin to slowly unlock
as our heads glide back slightly
I slowly determine where I am

I begin to see again
searching I find
I’m looking into your eyes
my whole body tingling
I see your face
your sensual smile
a tingle runs up my spine
I feel a warm flush
has taken my face

I am lost in our embrace
but the pleasure of the contact
of the entire experience
makes me swoon

I am wholly excited

softly
under my breath
I say… “wow — oh wow — I love you so much”

you smile into my eyes
I feel your body
breathing deeply
as it softens in my arms

what happens from here
strictly our business…

*
rob kistner © 2023

More poetry at: dVerse

 






https://youtu.be/EmVJDfbF-j8

Sweet Honey Kiss

loves-serenade

 

To you I sing my sweet sweet lover
songs sung soft as silk and satin
sensual as a lingered bare embrace

I promise this sweet world is ours
this perfect moment’s never ending
I’ll lift you high on rapture’s cloud

I’ll kiss you kisses like honeyed cream
that quench your quivering naked lips
as they slowly smolder like kindled ember

tonight we freely dare sweet lust’s embrace
as we roar to blaze in love’s wildest abandon
how I burn to offer you love’s special kiss

come to me love — I’ll take you timeless
enfold you into my soul’s deep desires
my lover’s breath — now make it yours

I enfold soft upon you this special hour
to taste the nectar of your tender flower
to set your every fantasy free
carrying you away to ecstasy

*
rob kistner © 2023

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After The Gig

~ it ain’t all glamorous ~

 

Keys and reeds
was really wail’n
finga’s sailin’

stratocaster master
was solid groove

my vocal chops
smokin’ smooth

mr monsta’ bassman
rollin’ thunder claps

stickboy d’wizard
rippin’ up d’traps

kicked ass ev’ry night
burned d’town ta d’ground
then our Roadies
tore the music down

*
rob kistner © 2023

More music poetry at: dVerse

 

Goddess

 

Eyes dark and deep as nile nocturne
scorching as nubian sundance
this blackthorn rose
is the sultry jungle goddess
the secreted passion

fired in molten scarlet
forged of earthen bronze

she’s the blazing lust
of writhing music

she is smoke’n flame
black magic woman

*
rob kistner © 2023

More star poetry at: dVerse

 

Talk about music — this is music genius!

Jan & Bo

“This is only fiction if we wake up”

 

We’ve watched helplessly
as generations receded
as empires crumbled
greed ran rampant
as civilizations
stumbled on
so disconnected
from one another
so sadly out of touch
with the environment
as the natural world
slowly declined
diminished
withered
scarred
as the
putrid
toxic air
permeated
burnt terrain
to far horizons
until now I stand
thrusting skyward
in this decaying hell
one last dying thing
one pitiful survivor
one final sentinel
time’s witness
watching
the end
with
jan
&
bo
¥


jan & bo

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rob kistner © 2023

More Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

 

Forestcide

This is a most twisted vision.


Horror Art — by: Rob Gonsalves

 
This is my nightmare
would that it never come true
learn not to clearcut
learn how to live with nature
do not destroy our forests


Murder

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rob kistner © 2023

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“when the last tree has fallen
and the rivers are poison
you cannot eat money”

— CREE INDIAN WARNING



The Innocence Gate

This is written intentionally, in a prophetic style.
Executed stream of consciousness, with minimum grammatical tweaking.


photo by: Chris Radburn

 

There is a needing and a caring
a taking and a giving
a sainted depth of sharing
a bless’ed way of living

pieces of one’s soul
peeled away
for the sake of the cherished

writ in blood an awful tome
of all those that perished

a duality of dark and light
of positive and negative
of eternal wrong and right

it haunts by reaching out
with wing’ed clutch
of profaned hands

impaled evil
which in shadow stands

to inflict raw wounds
pure savage
beastly brutes of ravage

that also bless with sacred touch
to sooth the burning bruise
and heal the unseen damage
foretold in ancient truths
rooted in the need to nurture

open the gate of true compassion
bar not the weak in need
take not advantage of their wanting
they are not prey for your hunting
rebuke contemptuous greed

in the looking one-eyed blind
to see that which is not seen
know sure the frailties
in the feigh unfocused seer

madness engulfs the heart
of the flat-light sighted
obscuring truth
amplifying fear

yet radiance of clarity
envelopes the sainted
by holy light revealing
illuminating the wondrous
showing pure the way
of fundamental healing

voids of spirit
marked and remembered
are besought in the leaving time
at the crossing over
to the dream
of hard justice
for brutal crime

seeking rebirth
on the morrow

washed clean
in the water’s sorrow

I am here
but for only you
until all that remains
are the tormentor’s brittled bones

those who meant you menace
who meant you harm
those who terrorized this land
now sanctified by lethal penance
inflicted by your righteous hand
so
on this glorious night
disarm

devour my word complete
in validation of my path
in supplication to the way of light
consummation of my holy fate

walk with me contrite in prayer
fragile forgiven heathens
head bowed seeking bless’ed mercy
through eternity’s innocence gate

*
rob kistner © 2023

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Joy Rises

Inspired by my ongoing fantasy of flying.


photo by: Eugene Soloviev

 

Joy rises from the earth today
as the thermals
beneath my wings
fill them to billowing

lifting me aloft
in free floating flight
my spirit’s pure delight

left to my heart’s abandon
my destination random

hear the earth whisper
the breezes sigh
here’s how it feels to fly

the soft sounds waft
lilting skyward

lifting
drifting
as far
and long
as the breeze permits

my searching soul submits

feeling the winds
take me

soaring so very high
into a brilliant sky

leaving the clouds
far below
like rolling pillow‘d snow

until all I hear
murmuring in my ear
is the voice
of that breeze

watching the world
bend away
over infinite horizons

seeing all of life
from a new perspective

seeking truth
a prime objective


photo by: Eugene Soloviev

now is when
I begin
the revealing journey
out and in

swept up
and away
in ever-climbing
ascent today

silently upward
as joy rises

*
rob kistner © 2023

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Key of Madness

 

S itting here
I play
off key
waiting
for the light
of inspiration

I watch the flow
of people

the shuffle of feet
with their different sounds
according to their shoes

I see shapes of faces
scabbed unsmiling lips

their void curve
denounce this evening
damp & dreary

they’re escaping yuck
the black hole sun
as fate is
dancin’ in the moonlight
yet unseen
black and charred
by this celestial anomaly
this heavenly abomination
this black hole sun

when the gossamer curtain
falls
defining these nameless

I sense
their soul’s duality

realizing
the divergent reality
through which
their truth
stumbles blind

to move in the world
rough as a rope
taut as every promise made

frayed as wisdom
leaned in
whispered from behind

I reach high
to grab at time
like dropped money
ever more precious

doing so
I notice the shoes
the belts
the bags

all made of leather

tanned hides
of the dead
innocent

I feel a shiver

a sad imbalance

a confliction
in my soul

so
I’ll practice non-attachment
because I can
M
knowing
I must

and observey
the lonely lady in red
whose trapped her words
on paper
locked in a wired cage

wholly removed
indifferent

but still
pieces of me
of my sorrow
stick
to her

to whomever
gets too close

you may have seen me
sobbing

silhouetted against the sky
the coldest night in January

playing
with the frozen moon

a duet
to make the coyotes
of this concrete
cower in their dens

then moon and I
sneak away

then we run
from room
to imaginary room
hiding from the devious
black hole sun

the whole world
close enough to touch

yet distant
distracted

much like the woman
in the black on white dress
deflecting
the rain of chaos
with her parasol

later
we will eat
a midnight lunch

white cheese sandwiches
dressed with dreams
and fragrances
of foreign lands

and onion’d thoughts
layered thick
and deep

oh
but please
peel back the layers
peel them away
to my clean

thin by thin
skin by skin
to my quivering soul

I hope
I am not hideousn
in your sight

I’m the 35mm man
show mercy

these thoughts
my thoughts
become too heavy to hold

or chew
or swallow

or lug
in this massive bag
of regret

my thoughts
my madness

bonewhite lies
of morality plays
open for you to peek

hope they are not
hideous in your sight

hope they do not
give you fright
make you cry

I will play
a sad song
as you peel back
all the layers

onion’d
thought
layers

held fast and firm

tonight
there is a schism
in the big apple
stitched red

a weight
in the force

like a carapace
to which
I’m stitched
and welded

and can no more leave
than you can truly enter

it ties me down
sometimes

but sometimes
barely so

survivor that I am

the inescapable optimism
in my barebones grin

my callused fingers
rebending strings
to make them sigh

my faux smile flashes
in the brittle moonlight
that rises
through the fog
this night

a night
of wounded dreams
as lovers
betrayed by love
wonder in their bed

what is this
all about…
alfie

really

and a patrolman
comes to where I sit
to look
see
and listen

his mag’s big beam
blinds the stars
from my eyes

brandishing his warm
weaponized smile

his radar eyes
scan the forgotten creases
and clandestine getaways
in my mind

searching my truth

standing over
he looks down
icy eye’d

he sees my scabbed lips
cracked and dry
“black sun got you”
“this is madness”
he says

but I know
one of us
can learn
a thing or two
tonight

if someone
pulls the bow
just right

presses the strings
down tight

plays
with insight

if someone
will just release the light
trapped by that black hole sun

*
rob kistner © 2021

Poetry at: The Sunday Muse

 



River of Time

composed for my 76th birthday, with deepest love for my wife, children, and grandson

This is a rhyme pattern I think I conceived: aba cddc — calling it the triquadric.

 
And as it must — the river flows
impatient to be onward
as onward — so it goes

‘tween twists and turns
of bolder’d banks — and fate
as though it simply cannot wait
the purpose of its journey burns

into the future does it stretch
at first — but a lazy trickle
‘til a torrent rushes on its fetch

something urgent beckons further
perhaps a vision on the horizon
churns the current to enliven
and stirs to froth its coursing fervor

still it will not — cannot stop
its destiny lies far ahead
its surging power will not drop

over obstacle and barrier
it must deliver its fare downstream
to the very threshold of a dream
its purpose deemed to be a carrier

the dream — is my very life
the river — is my pulsing essence
and yes – the passage had its strife

many ports of wonder I left behind
but I would make this trip again
for the loved ones — and for the friends
and for the beautiful — that shined

also — the river is precious time
and on — and ever on it rolls
as I near the destined end of mine

my heart is scarred — but full of riches
for all I’ve had, lost, n’those I’ve treasured
tears of joy and sorrow flow unmeasured
I pray fate grant my final wishes

to remember it all — when comes my end
in mindful gratitude for ev’ry thing
make strong my spirit – over fear transcend

may I feel my life energy lift and fly
have voice to say thank you for our life
as I gaze into the eyes of my belov’ed wife
with my children and grandson gathered near
to feel the love – when finally comes — my last Goodbye

*
rob kistner © 2023

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The Wonder of You (deux)


photo: “Alice in Wonderland” by Yuki Valentine
 

To grow up
is to chase off
our innocence

to stifle our naive belief
in the world as a beautiful place

it is to harden against the magic
of our childhood dreams

but if by chance
we can hold tight
to just one
of those wonderful foolishnesses

perhaps we can hold on
to our precious sense of wonder

I was once
years ago
in real danger
of running myself up a tree
out onto a lonely limb
my wonder ebbing

but you pulled me out of it

you have since
filled my life
with wonder
with radiance
with magic
and with breathtaking beauty

please hear
beyond just these words
because my deepest love
is in here — calling

I pray I can hold on
to the wonder of you
my love
for a lifetime longer

however long that may prove to be
please know
my precious valentine
that I love you
with all my heart

with all the essence
of my being


My Kathy has cancer.

*
rob kistner © 2023

Poetry at: dVerse

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