To read “Rain Dancer”, visit the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst Magazine:
http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html#anchor271000
Daily Archives: Sunday, June 29, 2008
Vietnam Fire
To read “Vietnam Fire” visit Word Catalyst Magazine:
“http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html#anchor1121499.
To read more about Phan Thi Kim Phuc and the famous photo that inspired this poem, check out the article about her on Wikipedia.
Two Poems Published in July 2008 Issue of Word Catalyst
Two more of my poems, “Vietnam Fire” and “Rain Dancer” were published in the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst.
To view both poems, visit: http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html
-Nicole
“This Bird Has Flown” Featured on Scot Young’s Poetry Challenge #1
I participated in Scot Young’s Poetry Challenge #1, which was to listen to Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird” and then write a poem based on it (prose poetry or flash fiction also included). I contributed “This Bird Has Flown” to the challenge. You can read it here:
-Nicole
Truth
This was written for the Matinee Muse “Avenge” prompt on Writer’s Island. This is a lune. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Blood for blood
is a pointless, miserable exchange -
no one wins.
Written 6/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Reticence
This was written for the Matinee Muse prompt “Guardian” on Writer’s Island…and as a poetic reaction to “Stranger” and “To The Stranger”. Since I wrote the first two poems, I wondered how the mysterious big city import would respond to the speaker…and wrote this as his response in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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division -
my heart
cleaved in two
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To the Stranger
This was written for the Curiosity prompt on Writer’s Island and as a continuation of Stranger, written last week. This is a reverse hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I want to
read the
books
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The Artist
This poem was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #33: Wordplay is the New Black. We were encouraged in this word limiting exercise to find a way to compose poems out of a limited number of words. Some possibilities included: Shufflewords, taking words out of a book, using random words flying around in one’s brain. I devised my own way, which was to limit myself to words founds in the lyrics of R.E.M.’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction. I used the lyrics available at Kipp Teague’s RetroWeb site and wrote a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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light
open-armed
haloed garden colors
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American Sentence #2
Data packets direct silent words to digital destinations.
Written 6/29/08
© 2008. Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
