Daily Archives: Sunday, June 8, 2008

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Roller Coaster

This was written off of a prompt from Simply Snickers, a site with prompts for poets. The catch? You must rhyme in some way. (I thought I had to rhyme, but I guess you don’t. Oh well. Still, I like this poem.)

I chose the Chaucerian roundel, again (easy use of forms is why I intend to master more of them) to do this thing. The prompt was to write a poem using the words “roller” and “coaster” in it. So I took the metaphoric meaning of a roller coaster instead of the literal. Enjoy.

-Nicole

You were a roller-coaster ride
taking my heart up and down
until I thought I’d drown Continue reading →

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It Wasn’t Like Him

Premature Baby Feet
“Premature Feet” by ~Bell-of-Flames

This was also written off of prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal – begin a poem with “It wasn’t like him” as the first line. Here’s what I came up with – another chained hay(na)ku. (Am I working those chained hay(na)kus lately or what?) Anyway, enjoy.

-Nicole

It
wasn’t like
him at all

to
cry, to
shed one tear Continue reading →

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The Worst Advice That I Have Ever Received

This poem comes from prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal – “Write a poem about the worst advice you ever got”. This is the result – a chained hay(na)ku about some bad advice my aunt (yes, the notorious one, for those who know) gave me in high school. Implied and unspoken advice, no less. Anyway, enjoy.

-Nicole

The
worst advice
I ever received

was
to let
the man make

the
first move;
in other words, Continue reading →