Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Broken Spirits Hotel” by: rob kistner © 10/20/23
S hrouding rains — october wanes
sorrow celebrates the vanishing light
winter smothers autumn’s last refrains
once brightest day now bleakest night
greyest grief stirs in the advancing cold
ghostly mists steal color from our sight
on such a night lost souls are sold
frozen hearts barren as the blight
Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Hawk Moon”
by: rob kistner © 10/20/23
hawk moon rolls slow in a chromium fog
lighting the path from a high black sky
this place is forbidding as a sucking bog
this is the dark hour for dreams to die
in this foreboding clench of deep despair
hard times slither and dejections dwell
misery hangs thick in the choking air
and no vacancies at broken hope hotel
Original DDE™ surrealistic art: “Lobby of The Lonely”
by: rob kistner © 10/20/23
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Poetry at: WGO
What a perfect Leonard Cohen song to balance the one in the prompt! Can I say that this total bleakness makes a beautiful poem, and the rhyme underscores the images? How will the nursery rhymes be written after the current moment in history? So much vacancy. Love the alliteration as well. Gosh!
Thank you… 😉 I have a side to my personalty Susan, whose name is LaTieke — he loves it dark… I let him write from time to time. 🙂
There is such powerful imagery in this poem, Rob. I can feel the winter chill, the darkness. So well done.
Thank you Sherry… 🙂
p.s. I thought I had emailed you about our new site, Rob. I tried to contact as many of our old friends as I could find. I must have an old email address of yours. I am so happy you found us! Yay!
Its cool my friend… 🙂
What a beautifully written eerie poem I am passing on the Hotel though.
Thank you Marja… 🙂 Espoir means hope… 🙂
It’s certainly a dark bleak time globally and personally. Hope things are OK at your end. Like the rhyme in your poem. Hope to see you here again. Take care and as we say down under …get back up on deck and beat the bastards 🙂 Not easy is it !
Thank you Rall. No it requires ongoing patience and vigilance to keep a cool head these days. I appreciate the kindness my friend… 🙂
Dark but beautiful and wonderful to read it aloud. Thanks for joining us Rob.
Thank you Sumana… 🙂
This is excellent, Rob. Dark Halloweenish kind of place. Interesting that there are no vacancies at broken hope hotel though. One would think that people might run the other way. Smiles. Thanks for writing to my prompt, Robb. I was out of town a few days, so could not comment earlier. Nice to know that YOU are a Leonard Cohen fan too, by the way!
Thank you Mary, very much. My vision regarding the vacancy issue, I felt the rooms in the hotel of broken hope were filled, not by choice, but by default of the miserable circumstances of the harsh reality of the dark situation — like surrendering to impossibility of escape.
There are too many heartbreak hotel and hotels of no hope these days. sigh…I love the reference to the hawk moon. Pondering talons, can they catch the darkness? Who/what is prey or should we just pray
Today, I join a group to drum and meditate hope into our lives and world. It was exhilarating and humbling. Wishing you and Kathy peace and health.
Yes there are True. It’s a mean moon. I was part of a drum circle through most of the 1980’s. I made my own hoop drum and still still have it. I bought it as a kit, then soaked, stretched, and tied the knotted rawhide back cross handle. I also used a beautiful djembe, which I also still have.
Hi Rob
I love that you made your own drum. I too made my drum. A friend of mine makes them for sale and she taught me how to make my mine. It was quite an intense process., the birthing of a drum and creating a new voice in the universe.
Pictured above
My hoop drum I made in 1979, complete with handwoven ceremonial strap, made from jute and leather with trade beads accenting it. Strap woven by my wife Kathy.
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Pictured below: This is my ceremonial Morrocan clay drum set that I traded for in the town Square in Santa Fe New Mexico, in 1970.
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Great job rob. The rhyming really drives it
Thank you very much Eric… 🙂