Image and Verse

A suite of poems pub­lished April 27, 2007, at Image and Verse has cap­tured our atten­tion today.

Rob Kist­ner is a writer, poet, artist, singer, song lyri­cist, and con­tem­po­rary fur­ni­ture designer. Those amaz­ing tal­ents aside, he is first and fore­most a man in love — with his family.

The Ris­ing Blog­ger hon­ors his unique tal­ent for his post enti­tled Poems For My Fam­ily.

He intro­duces us to the two women who’ve cap­tured his heart. For his wife, Kathy, he writes: “Often, when you’re away, a calm set­tles over me. I’m filled with a warmth, a peace …” To daugh­ter Jen­nifer, who lives far away: “After all these years, she hasn’t lost the magic …”

For two sons, one liv­ing and one lost, he writes so hon­estly that the reader almost cringes at the stark emo­tions that sur­face and how quickly those vis­ceral reac­tions appear — in all par­ents of chil­dren here and chil­dren sud­denly gone. We won’t give those two poems away. They are just too spe­cial to spoil with even an excerpt.

Please take a moment and read Rob’s love let­ters to his fam­ily. We plan on mak­ing his blog a reg­u­lar stop.

Need inspi­ra­tion? Image and Verse is brim­ming with good things.

Rob, you’ve writ­ten the Post of the Day!

Review by Mimi Lenox.

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