Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Tragic Romantics in Six Sentences

This was written earlier today, but I realised it fits with the “Discoveries” Prompt on Totally Optional Prompts, since it was the result of an epiphany I had about what we do to hurt ourselves and prevent ourselves from getting the help and comfort we need. It’s kind of rough, but I am posting it here for your pleasure. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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We bury ourselves in tragic ground, set ourselves on fire, become our own funeral pyres. We refuse the water, expose our pain-racked roots to the fiery face of the burning sun. We wither and die, becoming martyrs and ghosts, crying on the pain posthumously in ashen whispers and post-dated screams. We become beautiful corpses riding shotgun in our own black nightmares. We become nightmares, frightful to look at, faces contorted in beautiful agony only for a lack of healing salve that we could have rubbed on our own wounds to seal them. We wait for rescuers…and we wait…and we wait…and we die…and we do this to ourselves.

Written 10/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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“Moment of Grace” Published in on the Midnight Wanderer Society Press Website

“Moment of Grace’ was published on the Midnight Wanderer Society Press website today. To read it, visit:

http://mwsociety.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/moment-of-grace-by-nicole-nicholson/

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Paleontologist

This was written for the Read Write Poem Prompt #47: Of Monsters and Dinosaurs Enjoy.

-Nicole

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bone upon bone
ash upon ash
dust upon dust
femurs meet like cursed wood to form a cross
death at the epicenter
frozen inside the still, lifeless ground at my feet
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Don’t Forget: Poetry Super Highway Worldwide Open Reading on Sunday, October 12

Don’t forget: Poetry Super Highway’s Worldwide Open Reading is this Sunday, October 12 @ 2:00 PM PDT/5:00 PM EDT. For more info, check out this post:

http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/09/22/poetry-super-highway-worldwide-open-reading-sunday-october-12/

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Kreative Blogger Award

I received the Kreative Blogger award from Michelle Johnson yesterday. Michelle has several blogs: Poefusion, Poevies, Shades of Mj, and Photo N Thesis. She also has Blog Awards, which is where I found out I’d been given this award by Michelle (see the original post at: http://blog-awards.blogspot.com/2008/10/kreativ-blogger.html).

I first encountered her Poefusion blog through the weekly Monday Mural and Friday Five prompts back in June of this year when I began writing for those prompts. Time doesn’t permit me to write for both every week now, but I still keep coming back for her thought-provoking and inspiring prompts. You can see what I’ve written for Friday Five (http://ravenswingpoetry.com/tag/friday-five/) and Monday Mural (http://ravenswingpoetry.com/tag/monday-mural/).

This is the first blog award that RWP has ever received. Michelle, I am honored and flattered that you believe RWP to be worthy of this award. Thank you!!!!

Now, here are the rules for passing along this award. Name six values that are important to you and six things you do not support. When you’ve finished name six people you want to share this blog award with and let them know they’ve been chosen.

The 6 things that are important to me:

  1. The knowledge in my heart of God and his/her love
  2. My fiancé and his support and love
  3. Writing
  4. The beauty I find around me wherever I go
  5. Music
  6. The opportunities that Columbus poetry groups such as Writer’s Block (http://www.writersblockpoetry.com) and Writing Wrongs (http://myspace.com/writingwrongspoetry) have given me to read my work in public and get it heard

The 6 things I don’t like:

  1. Self-destruction
  2. Mediocrity, banality, the ordinary
  3. Telemarketing calls
  4. Long meetings
  5. War
  6. The lack of love in this world

The 6 bloggers I passed this award onto:

  1. Exhaust Fumes and French Fries
  2. Just Paisley
  3. Mine Enemy Grows Older
  4. Words That Sing
  5. Epiphany: Amour Habito Intus Vos
  6. Fragments of Reality
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Writing Wrongs: Tonight @ Urban Spirit Coffee Shop

From my e-mail:

“Writing Wrongs Poetry is back at it after a long lay-off and we’ve got a
great show for you tonight!!

No out of town features hogging up all your precious stage time, so in
fact the feature tonight is YOU. Come early to sign up for the open
mic.

And if you’re tired of watching debates and not knowing who came out on
top, well we’ve got a debate for that you can actually score and declare
a winner by the end of the night. We call it

THE SLAM!

This slam is special because its the last time to qualify for the Grand
Slam on October 21st that will determine a representative for Columbus
at the Individual World Poetry Slam being hosted in Charlotte in
December. You don’t want to miss this event.

See you tonight!

Urban Spirit Coffee Shop

893 E Long St, Columbus, OH

$5 admission, $4 w/student ID

Show runs from 8p-11p”

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While Waiting For A Bus

Torn Notebook, 1 by Flowrbx
Torn Notebook, 1 by Flowrbx

This tanka was written for two prompts – Monday Mural at Poefusion (which uses the above picture) and One Single Impression Prompt #32: Serendipity. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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torn pages in the wind
a white bird lands in my palm
singing silent songs
in ink; I wanted a ride
instead, I found someone’s soul

Written 10/5/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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