Bearing their hearts, lives, and
Thoughts on a stage -
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Haiku #4, 4/29/08
The Lord’s handiwork -
Does the human frame count as
A poetic form?
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Tabloids
Misery
Loves company -
And companies
Love misery,
Especially those whose brightly colored
Rags beckon from the check-out counter.
I counter
Their gossip
With a look of disdain
As they profit from stardom’s pain.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku #3, 4/29/08
Around her shoulders
A strong, long, lean black arm
Down which his love flows
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku #2, 4/29/08
Blooming flower tree -
Electric purple branches
Reach up to the sky.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku # 1, 4/29/08
Statue of Mary
Standing stone still, her arms are
Forever outstretched.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Sweat
He sweats
Every time a plane flies too low.
I sweat
Every time a meeting runs too slow. Continue reading
Middletown, Ohio
It happened in Middletown.
It could happen in any steel mill town.
Strike.
Men and women
Strike,
And money flies out the window.
Honorable hands that did honorable work
Must find something else honorable
To do.
The town teeters on a paper’s edge
As a second wave sure thing -
ARMCO jobs, my man -
Is poised to be buried under a
Third wave tsunami
That could take out
A small town
Like Middletown.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Poetry
Sometimes,
I bleed
On paper
Instead
Of inside.
Will I
Hemorrhage
Whole books
Before
I die?
Written 4/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Saludos
I learned a new word
Today -
Saludos; Continue reading
Speed
Time,
Moving too fast -
I can barely catch my breath. Continue reading
Haiku #5, 4/27/08
Family picture -
Smiles do not betray trouble
Lurking underneath.
Written 4/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
