Laughing
…here’s in keeping with my ‘dark’ fantasy that all clowns have bizarre, perhaps criminal pasts… Laughing • gaze upon me if you will my countenance crafted to fool and thrill I’ve spent years in...
View ArticlePerception’s Window
artwork by Jack Vettriano Perception’s Window • we are infinite beings awaking slowly from some infinite place our coming to be unknown to us as any mystery our essence an enigma learned in stories in...
View ArticleMorphling
image by Francesca Woodman Morphling • I will not be confined always in motion eternal ebb and flow perpetual like the seas my spirit an eternal liquid in everlasting flux expands unrestrained seeking...
View ArticleCloistered
This piece deals with the strange duality we all carry with us through life, the unique contradiction between the person we think we are, and the ‘many’ other persons others perceive us to be from...
View ArticleThe Dance
NOTICE: intended for mature readers only… “Venus and The Sailor” by Salvador Dali, 1925 The Dance • he felt the weight of her thigh pressing against his and the flesh of her hip urgent against his...
View ArticleLife is Duality
Day 13 “first draft” for NaPoWriMo 2013 _______________________________________ Life Is Duality on catching a glimpse of the Great Mysery • I sometimes get very dark my emotions get brittle and heavy -...
View ArticleClarion Stones
Clarion Stones ~ all those years ago in the time of dangers they were placed in secret as a silent beacon in the realm of deepest night waiting for the day when the shadowed world would waken from...
View ArticleHedone’s Daughter
WARNING! For adult readers only! Hedone’s Daughter ~ radiant vision silken skinned translucent alabaster blaze torrid as a teen’s temptation leaned low here before me yearning straplened ankles...
View ArticleNorthwest Autumn
Autumn is upon us, as we enter our season of nature’s rest and replenishment here in the Pacific Northwest. The cycle of renewal will begin in western Oregon, where I lived for 25 years. I moved in...
View ArticleDaredevil’s Dread
Daredevil’s Dread ~ to be shot from a cannon into the cool night air is really no big deal to face a barrage of flying knives isn’t really that unreal to leap through the fire of a flaming hoop the...
View ArticleAnd So
“sweet memories of my youth” And So ~ and so I think of her and wonder what was the fire that burned so bright and raged so fierce as to consume complete our essence left embered char smoldered ashen...
View ArticleDistant Farewell
LONG-FORM, FREE-VERSE, SCI-FI ADVENTURE/LOVE POEM Far-Worlds Corp research space schooner “Thadius” Distant Farewell ~ “I’ve watched golden fire clouds, hanging in pale green skies, over the azure...
View ArticleEvening Grace
Evening Grace ~ as dusk descends my stride holds steady buoyed by the gentle embrace of the downing golden sun early shadows fall soft vesper’s velvet blanket drapes ’round my shoulders envelops me...
View ArticleSavior
Savior ~ I remember when it happened remember well the blinding flash that sent me scurrying underground into my private bunker I suspected this possibility thankfully I was prepared for the moment...
View ArticleCastle Walachia
Castle Walachia ~ this castle is most ominous since becoming Voivode of Wallachia Vlad II has not followed his father’s example no joy and celebration reverberates through the greattooms, hallways,...
View ArticleThe Secret
photo collage: “The Secret” — by: rob kistner © 1997 The Secret ~ from the dawn of awareness through the dark times beyond the ages of change into these times they have kept it the keepers of the...
View ArticleFrozen Man
Vote = Voice — Speak Up! Voting HELP: CLICK HERE line art: “Frozen Man” — rob kistner © 2008 Stopping Is No Option ~ — QUADRILLE — Stopping is no option giving up is giving in grip letting go of...
View ArticleSeductive Fantasy
…a stream of consciousness trip… Soaring psychedelic colors pierce my eyes to bleed into my mind pulsing into shapes and melting forms dancingly irregular a brilliant cacophony of fully beautiful...
View ArticleSweetest Taboo
S ucculent nectar of full plumped peach laid bare engorged deliciousness peeled open in promised sweet delight ecstatic vision of tender flesh tart sweet tingle at tip of tongue such sweetness...
View ArticleLove’s Requiem
WARNING! This is dark! Inspired by this image and TV show: “Clarice”. artist: Natalia Drepina D o you think you’re not still my slave since digging yourself from that earthen grave since you sullied...
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