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Rob Krabbe

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in Saint Charles, IL, The United States

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http://www.krabbe.com

Twitter

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Short Stories, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth, ...more

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June 2010

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Rob Krabbe is an author and composer living in the small farming community of Sterling Kansas. He has spent a great deal of his life as a musician, worship leader and song writer, poet, and has recently focused some of his time on his fiction writing. He has written and published several short stories and poems, and has previously published five books including a collection of his short stories, Chaos to Order and Back Again, and a daily poetry journal, Forty Days in the Dessert - forty days of prayer and fasting. The Jake Collins Band - The Fading Silence is the first of a three-part trilogy of adventure novels.

Rob is incredibly creative and a little quirky. His love of a good cup of coffee is legendary, and anyone who stops by can count ...more

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	The Jake Collins Band: the Fading Silence 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forty Days In The Desert: a poetry journal of forty days of desperate prayer and fasting it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnitas and Manic Mango Salsa: Surviving Madness and Life Long Enough to Make Pork Tacos, and Other Fun and Dangerous Things it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnitas and Manic Mango Salsa: Surviving the madness of life long enough to make pork tacos and other fun and dangerous things 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fading Silence (The Jake Collins Band Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Rob Krabbe's Blog: From a Krabbe Desk

The Depths of Me: Psalm 139

You have searched me, the depths

of me, the known and the hidden of

me and you know me through and

through and through, the soul, and

heart of me, that I try to hide but

you know all you created.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

my thoughts, voices from inside,

and outside, demons from my hidden

heart, and ghosts from afar. Believe

me, there is no secret place; no

such space still I

Rob’s Quotes

“There are elements of reality in every dream, and elements of fantasy in every reality.”
― Rob Krabbe

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“A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

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“So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: new-years-eve, snow, strange

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¡ POETRY ! — 22547 members — last activity Mar 22, 2026 05:40AM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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