This hay(na)ku chain is the second one I wrote for this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt – to use the words “avoid”, “class” and “sticky”. I dug into my mental vault back to high school for this one. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I’ve
avoided your
burning acid eyes
which
could lay
me completely bare
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I wrote two for Three Word Wednesday – this forward and reverse chained hay(na)ku is the first one. This was inspired by a post on Brian’s blog, “I Detest Labels”. This week’s prompt was to use the words “sticky”, “avoid”, and “class”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
admissions
of weakness
become sticky labels
attaching to skin
covering it
completely
you
soon disappear
beneath the paper
and gummy glue
then some take
up sharpies
and
write
insults upon
your labeled self
all other see
are those
epithets
which
sink beneath
the labels into
your very flesh
you become them
you could
succumb
to
them and
your name transform
into a class
of dysfunction
defining
you
simply by
your admitted weakness
this is why
people might
avoid
sharing
the very
things that could
break them in
everyone else’s
eyes
Written 7/23/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
I recall reading this article by
Devrie Paradowski some time ago from a link on Poets Who Blog, but came across it again today. She has some interesting ideas about why poetry isn’t popular and what can be done to make it popular again:
http://westendjournal.com/archives/2008/06/07/poetry-and-popular-culture.html
This sijo was written for Poefusion’s Tuesday Title prompt, “Somewhere between nowhere and goodbye”…which interestingly enough, was taken from a link off of this blog! Enjoy.
-Nicole
somewhere between nowhere and goodbye, their love lies in stasis,
inhabiting a transparent tunnel of final glances -
a train whistle seals the ends and this moment into memory
Written 7/22/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This sijo was written for the One Single Impression prompt this week (“rest”). Enjoy.
-Nicole
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empty mannequins animated by external fire -
the search for success, a whip-cracking bitch denying them rest
it finally shoves them, still wearing their suits, into soft earth graves
Written 7/20/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written for the Simply Snickers prompt this week – to use the words “sacred”, “secrets”, “self”, and “scorned”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I write poems about my heros, my heroines,
perhaps in vain, because I don’t know if
they will ever read or hear them;
but I do it anyway, because aside from
God, without them, I would be a deaf-mute
unable to laugh, cry, sing, or scream out
the contents of my soul,
so I cannot help but sing my out my love
and gratitude -
and now, it is your turn.
I don’t know if the Universe will
ever bring these words to your eyes or ears;
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This American Sentence was written for the Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
Birds perch and peer at us, perplexed by our need to notate song in notes.
Written 7/20/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This fib chain was written, actually, for both of the Rocking Chair Prompts this week: “What’s really on your mind?” and “What days in your life will you always remember and why?” Enjoy.
-Nicole
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for
some
it was
Kennedy
gunned down in a car
in broad Dallas motorcade daylight
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This was written for two prompts, actually: Read Write Poem #36 (“Ekphrastic Extravaganza”) and Totally Optional Prompts (“Ghazal”). The painting is “Nanda” by Rick Mobbs and is from his blog “Mine Enemy Grows Older”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Wordless thin lips form a short line on a sunken face -
a folded wire woman draped in yards of soft black.
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This fib chain was written for Poefusion’s Friday Five prompt. This week’s words were: wail, hay, scrawl, clobber, and encourage. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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stones
lay
scattered
tornado
scrawled our homelessness
onto to the land in rock letters
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This was actually written a few weeks ago, but I’m posting it for the ghazal prompt on Totally Optional Prompts. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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The milquetoast father, polite and serene
never dared to raise his voice or holler.
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This sestina was written for this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt: to use the words “narrow”, “history”, and “spent”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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History may record the firecracker chaos
born of steel wills clashing in these
Birmingham streets, the clashing of love
and hate, bigotry and tolerance, law
enforcers and law breakers. It may speak
of water hoses, dogs, nightsticks, angry
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