Monthly Archives: March 2008

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The Poet

Given to fly in a lyrical delight,
Words, on rafts of their own
Rush forth, as often they’re prone
From my fingers, dancing in flight
On plastic keys by their own might.
Never brighter has the sun shone
When I wax lyrical to the barest bone
And I sing happy or in deepest plight.
My gift, a delight – I am kindred with bards
And songwriters modern, gentle men
Or women who play their poetic cards.
Able is my collective of ten
To dance for common honky-tonk bars,
Or cathedrals. To sing, I yen.

Written Sometime in 2004

© 2004 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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Hungry

Hunger -
Rising in my belly,
Brewing in my chest;
A gnawing need gnashing its teeth on my soul.
This goes beyond mere appetite,
Beyond the mountain tip-top of want
(The dastardly beast which growls in my flesh
And reminds me that I am a
Woman
And not a disembodied head of ponderings
Or a deep violet bucket of melancholy and feeling).
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The Revolution Will Be Poeticized.

In honor of National Poetry Month (April), I have chosen to write 100 poems during the month of April! (Most of) these will be posted on this blog.

For more details on the month-long revolution, please visit http://fringemonkey.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/lets-start-a-revolution/.

Happy (Early) National Poetry Month!

-Nicole

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To A Girl

This was written about the girlfriend of an acquaintance. We’d barely met, but his story of her was so spectacular that it was hard not to notice and not to feel anything at all. After this, I began to think – and realize – that her personal struggle is not unlike my own. So for her, I wrote “To A Girl”. Enjoy.

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You say you want to make memories,
Holding photographs inside your head – for you,
Sweet and black tinged, pink and mood indigo.

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