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Stranger

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

This was written for both this week’s Three Word Wednesday Prompt (the words: shake, spontaneous, and rumor) and as a second poem for the “questionable” prompt over at Writer’s Island. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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lithe
fine-boned
ethereal blond stranger

he’s
a mysterious
big city import

our
small town
high school marvels

girls
are drawn
to his smoldering

boys
are repelled
by unsaid suggestions

rumors
shake and
buzz in hallways

spontaneous
clouds of
cold collective gossip

his
eyes are
two-way mirrors

his
voice a
measured, quiet lock

what
undiscovered key
will open him?

Written 6/25/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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16 Comments leave one →
  1. Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:01 pm

    You’ve described this fellow with precision. Good work!

  2. Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:30 pm

    Thank you, Tumblewords. :)

    -Nicole

  3. nathan1313 permalink
    Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:20 pm

    You’ve demonstrated again your ability to make a world out of a few words. I really like the last stanza, the image of the “undiscovered key.”

  4. Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:47 pm

    The new kids in town are always a bit of a puzzle.
    You’ve described it very well, and I like the structure of the poem.
    Great Work!

  5. Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:09 pm

    Great write. I enjoyed this immensely.

  6. Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:31 am

    Excellent reflection there. We seem to know this person, but you retain that air of mystery.

  7. Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:26 am

    wonderfully mysterious… and congrats on all the publishings i read about on PWB!!!! way to go nichole!!!

  8. Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:25 am

    Thank you, everybody. This was written both based on a real person, and the kind of person who I wished would have suddenly shown up at my small hick town high school.

    This was an originally longer piece, but once again, I looked to the hay(na)ku for form, structure, and to limit myself to the words that I felt “needed” to be there.

    I’m glad you all enjoyed it.

    -Nicole

  9. Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:48 pm

    I liked this, how it made me immediately think of that substitute teacher I always wished we’d get ;-)

  10. Friday, June 27, 2008 9:43 am

    I had that substitute teacher, but I kept the longing to myself. Thanks for the comment, TC.

    -Nicole

  11. Friday, June 27, 2008 5:29 pm

    …sounds like a tasty treat to me… it must have been a nice distraction at least… small towns are delightful in almost every way… again, that form rocks!

  12. Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:59 pm

    Thank you, piece of pie. Though I will say, I find small towns both delightfully self-contained and confining by turns. But that’s me.

    -Nicole

  13. Noah permalink
    Sunday, July 6, 2008 6:46 pm

    A nice older woman poet!

  14. Wednesday, July 9, 2008 10:07 am

    Thanks for dropping by, Noah.

    -Nicole

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