“Elegy” was published in Young American Poets on Tuesday, November 25! To go read the poem, visit:
http://youngamericanpoets.blogspot.com/2008/11/elegy.html
And heck, while you’re at it, check out the rest of the poets on the site. Some amazing stuff.
-Nicole
I am glad for the many supporters and regular readers of this blog. Your comments always encourage me and inspire me to keep going and keep writing.
With that being said, I’ve decided to follow my muse down the purple brick road for a while. Writing for the prompts has been fun, inspiring, and educational…but my muse, he is calling – no, SCREAMING – into my ears, and I feel the need to answer and follow him for awhile. Which requires more time…to think, dream, figure out where the purple brick road is going, etc, etc. And I’d like to generate more material for a possible spoken word CD (I’m thinking 2009 or 2010), as well as publications both print and online.
So, until the end of the year, I’ll only be writing for Read Write Poem prompts. Good luck, Happy Christmas/Ramadan/Kwanzaa/Hanukah/Solstice/etc to all….”peace on earth, and goodwill to all”.
-Nicole
From PSH’s website:
“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday December 7, 2008 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!
Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.
You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!
To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html
Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam will be having an acoustic poetry show on Tuesday, December 2. William Evans says that this will be “a really big show with a live band, some incredible acoustic artists and a Women’s [WoWPS] slam. A closed mic that night, but an experience like none other.”
Location: Urban Spirit Coffee Shop, 893 E Long St, Columbus, OH
Admission: $5, $4 w/student ID
Time: 8 PM to 11 PM
This poem was written for two prompts: Read Write Poem #53 and One Single Impression #39: Childhood Memories.
The Read Write Poem Prompt directed participants to each write one (or more) American Sentences. If you’re not hip to what an American Sentence is, go here or here for more info. I’ve contributed a few sentences for the prompt, but the gracious folks who run RWP more or less gave us a “free prompt” for this week.
So what did I do? I combined American Sentences with the Six Sentences form and produced a poem with Six American Sentences to fit One Single Impression’s theme of “Childhood Memories”. (You can read more of my American Sentences and Six Sentences on this blog.)
Enjoy.
-Nicole
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X marks the spot of my generation and small town memories. The eye of Thundera rises red, a Saturday morning sunrise. Bracelets, jump ropes, Doc Martins and black eyeliner jumble together. Portals open to distant city scenes through videos and music. We scrawl and send messages in sullen and sanguine bottles by turns. We poke each other’s hearts and hope for fresh dreams to explode from within.
Written 11/18/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This week, I decided to try out a new poetry form known as a memyric. The memyric was invented by Lancelot of Pleiades and uses four-line stanzas of five, three, eight, and three syllables respectively, with the two three-syllable lines rhyming. The last word of the first line rhymes with the first word of the second line. It’s a fun form to work with. If you’d like to see an example written by the inventor of the memyric, check out this poem: “The Roll”.
Now for your reading pleasure, I give you this *modified* memyric, written for Poefusion’s Tuesday Title Prompt, which this week is “Salty Moon”. I did not completely follow the rules for the memyric (my last word in my first line doesn’t rhyme with my first word of my second line), but I experimented with some internal rhyme instead. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Salty moon in June
overhead -
saturated, not crisp, clean. It
wilts instead
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Good news, readers: I have been selected as one of two Poets of the Week on Poetry Super Highway! My poem, “Revolutionary” was featured, along with my bio and information. You will also want to check out Jim D. Babwe, whose poem “Out on the Dusty Trail in the Significant Distance” was featured as part of Poets of the Week.
To see our poems, visit:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/potw.html
To see past Poets of the Week, visit: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppotw.html. NOTE: I am now in the Past Poets of the Week section – you’ll need to go there to see me and Mr. Babwe.
This was written for One Single Impression Prompt #38, Courage. It is not so much a poem, but a personal statement, written as a reaction to some things I’ve encountered at work. You don’t have to agree, but all I ask is that you read….and think.
-Nicole
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I know that there are lines, and they cut through me. I know that there are armies, and they march across my heart. I know that there are loud cacophonies of protests and do-right demands and endless rah-rah-rah cheerleading to rouse up fear and loathing of imagined or created enemies – and I find myself responding with silence. And I am repulsed at my own desire to hide in the darkness of silent assent.
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This poem was written for Poefusion’s Tuesday Title Prompt, which is “Unchained Roads”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Unchained roads
lead to unknown melodies
on the side of the dawn,
waiting to be heard and explored,
but have been ignored
by the stiff and the bored.
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This triptych poem was written for this week’s Totally Optional Prompt, which is “expectations”. Though I am not Catholic, I have long been fascinated by the story behind the Virgin of Guadalupe (known as Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe or Virgen de Guadalupe, and where I work, I have seen several depictions of this apparition of Mary in artwork, which inspired me to write this poem. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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| yellow roses | in the desert | December’s surprise |
| I take them | mockeries of | common sense |
| from this hill | a frozen desert dream | is shattered |
| her imprint | burned in | my back |
| in cloth | a sudden, shining miracle | carries her testimony |
| sings her Gift | an embrace | hotter than ten million suns |
| Madre de Dios | Madre de Dios | Madre de Dios |
Written 11/11/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
I’ve Been Tagged (after knowing about it for a couple of weeks, but just now finally getting around to responding…shame on me)!
RULES OF TAGGING
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know when he or she has been tagged.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.
I was tagged by David M. Pitchford at: http://fringemonkey.wordpress.com/
Six random things about me:
1. I write poetry.
2. I am a type II diabetic.
3. My biggest game addiction is either Scrabble or Facebook’s Wordscraper.
4. In college, I was a disc jockey at one of my university’s two campus radio stations. And I miss being behind the mic. Hence why I love open mic and slam.
5. If I had my way, I’d move back to Arizona and never leave again.
6. I’m totally bummed out that you haven’t bought my chapbook, Raven Feathers, yet.
I tried to pick the most six random things about me possible. Now, please keep the love going and visit these fine blogs:
November’s Poetry Super Highway Live Show, which broadcast today, is online now! I read “Dreams” on today’s broadcast. You can listen by visiting:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh/2008/11/09/November-29-Worldwide-Open-Reading
