Bearing their hearts, lives, and
Thoughts on a stage -
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Weekly Continue reading ‘Open Mic’
Archive for April, 2008
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Apr
Open Mic
30
Apr
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.
30
Apr
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.
30
Apr
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.
30
Apr
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.
30
Apr
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.
29
Apr
Sweat
He sweats
Every time a plane flies too low.
I sweat
Every time a meeting runs too slow. Continue reading ‘Sweat’
29
Apr
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.
29
Apr
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.
29
Apr
Saludos
I learned a new word
Today -
Saludos; Continue reading ‘Saludos’
29
Apr
Speed
Time,
Moving too fast -
I can barely catch my breath. Continue reading ‘Speed’
29
Apr
Haiku #5, 4/27/08
Family picture -
Smiles do not betray trouble
Lurking underneath.
Written 4/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
29
Apr
Attitude
Attitude is like armor -
You might put it on with your clothes
As you go to face your foes.
But who are your real enemies? Continue reading ‘Attitude’
29
Apr
Haiku # 3, 4/27/08
Stillness in kitchen,
Punctuated by laughter
As we make our meal.
Written 4/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
29
Apr
Hate
Do not be mastered by
Hate,
For your fate
Depends on
How you relate
To hate. Continue reading ‘Hate’
In my introduction when I first started this blog, I said I would share the occasional personal experience or insight. In this vein, I will talk about my first open mic experience.
This past Wednesday, my fiance and I attended our first poetry open mic night. I’d had an idea to find open mic poetry events around Central Ohio, observe what goes on, and then when I felt a little less chicken, I would get up there and read myself. This one, courtesy of Writer’s Block Poetry, is held every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM at Kafe Kerouac in the Ohio State North Campus area in Columbus. Continue reading ‘An Open Mic Virgin No More!’
As of today, I have written 61 poems in the month of April (counting some I wrote in late March, because I just couldn’t wait to start the Revolution!). 31 of them are on this blog.
With four days remaining, I am 39 poems short of the goal, 100 poems. Can I do it? Stay tuned here to find out.
-Nicole
26
Apr
Your Name
Mahadev
Means “Great Lord” -
A Sanskrit pronunciation
Of the man
About to stand
Before your eyes; Continue reading ‘Your Name’
26
Apr
Father Pat
A voice
Like a lively tuba doing a jig
Traveling down an echo-vescent
Hallway
The source far away
But the words so close
I can hear them at my door
A walking embodiment of life itself
Taking God’s joy off the shelf
And serving it to us who surround
Him.
Written 4/23/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
26
Apr
Haiku #2, 4/22/08
The broken mirror
Reflects Dad; Rejoin the shards
And now I see me.
Written 4/22/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
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