A little early for Poefusion’s Friday Five this week, but none the less, here it is. This week’s words were:
social worker
mop
hotel room
beeper
fire alarm
Enjoy.
-Nicole
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my beeper goes off
then the fire alarm screams
dropped my mop, started
now social worker found dead
in hotel room, I just heard
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
tale of two rivers:
orange cream shake flows next to
the Olentangy
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
clouds overhead
and pastel clouds on a stick
cotton candy day
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
summer cloud ceiling
pins down the hot thick air
wetness without rain
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
opening skyward
blooms of every color
joyful, unashamed
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
heavy white blanket:
new snow covers the graveyard -
the dead are sleeping
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written off of the lyric and verse challenge prompt on Poets Who Blog Interactive. The prompt was to write a poem with the first line being any lyric in the Leonard Cohen song, “I’m Your Man”. WARNING: this one is quite bitter and caustic. If you’re not in the mood for this, come back and read another day.
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