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
Continue reading ‘Days That You Will Never Forget’
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
Continue reading ‘Tornado’
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
Continue reading ‘History’
This was actually written for three prompts: Poefusion’s Title Tuesday (“Stung by the Splendor of Sudden Black”), Writer’s Island (“Farewell”), and Simply Snickers (use the words “standing” and “still”). I wrote this entirely in American Sentences. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Stung by the splendor of sudden black, I failed to
bid farewell to you. Nothingness erased the
last still frame where you stood and painted it
black. I called your name, but Silence devoured my
cries into its belly. An obsidian wall separated life
and death – and therefore, us.
Continue reading ‘Departure’
Shed blood disappears into hot, harsh sand - but not from their memories.
Written 7/14/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This chain of regular and reverse hay(na)ku was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural Prompt (the mural is above). Enjoy.
-Nicole
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one
night I
had a dream
I walked the
streets of
Memphis
Continue reading ‘Memphis’
This was a sedoka written for Read Write Poem Prompt #35: “fun in the sun” (NOT!). Here is my take. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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released from the jaws
of school, time was now my own
to sculpt summer freedom with
twenty years later
loneliness wraps around me
in emptied, silent school halls
Written 7/11/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written last month, but I thought it fit in with the “Through A Window” prompt on One Single Impression. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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the girl squirms around in the back seat of
her daddy’s eighty-six taurus to watch out of
the back windshield disappearing palm trees
and green leaves, verdant dots and dashes
Continue reading ‘Exit’
This is a hay(na)ku chain written for this week’s Simply Snicker’s prompt - write a poem with the words “magnificent” and “moments”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I
am an
encyclopedia in flesh
Continue reading ‘Piano Lesson’
To read “Rain Dancer”, visit the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst Magazine:
http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html#anchor271000
This was written for the “Summer” prompt at Totally Optional Prompts. I thought I would try a cinquain form for this one. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Summer
brought to me its
heavy heat and blurred smells
swimming through the thick, humid ocean
of air. Continue reading ‘Summer, 1995′
This was written for the Simply Snickers prompt this week - write a poem with the words “day” and “discover”. I chose a tanka. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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day after rainstorm
trees destroyed, branches broken
the rains missed a rose
I discover it, upright
defiant to the storm’s winds
Written 6/22/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This is a poem for Poefusion’s Friday Five. This week’s words were: dog trainer, pie, beach, whistle, and bills. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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This beach is almost vacant after dark;
the juncture of pale peach sand and silent,
whispering ocean waves rests underneath
a sunset rainbow strata of coral,
turquoise, cornflower, and midnight black. Continue reading ‘Beach After Dark’
This was written both as a response to this week’s Simply Snickers prompt (write a poem with the words secret and silent) and as a response to the following excerpt from Monday’s post on Lutheran Surrealism:
“Even more boring: I like to watch plants grow, and to see if I can catch them at it. Hard to make a drama out of such a thing.”
So…this is my attempt to make a drama out of such a thing. And a pantoum to boot. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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silent still still still
breathe in out still
freeze focus don’t blink
watch watch watch watch Continue reading ‘Silent Drama’
This is my response to the Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion (the image above is this week’s prompt). I chose to write this in chained lunes. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Soft sleeping Virgin,
did you fall to Earth
from your perch
on the moon
and sink into the ground
to take repose?
That moon perch
lays bowed in the sky
above sleeping eyes -
your sleeping eyes,
for us to gaze upon
in loving awe.
Dare we disturb
your quiet, entombed, lucid dreaming
to request intercession
for our frailty
as we forever unfailingly fall
and find sin?
Written 6/15/08
©2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Stumble It!
This poem was written off of this week’s One Single Impression prompt, which is permanence (or transience). It was inspired by a post on the Ideas Exchange blog about a prancing crow that Robert by providence captured on film. I suggest you visit his blog, read the post, and look at the photo he caught of the crow - it is awesome.
-Nicole
you
prance for
me, gentle raven
this
moment, transient
by very nature
becomes
permanent by
my digital camera
your
obsidian feathers
forever firmly fixed
your
prancing pictured
in photographic pixels
Written 6/15/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Stumble It!
“Hush” was featured today as the Daily Poem on Poetry Friends. To read “Hush”, visit:
http://poetryfriends.blogspot.com/2008/06/poem-by-nicole-nicholson.html
-Nicole
This was written off of prompt #16 on Scott Woods’ Live Journal:
“Write a poem about an aspect of a national tragedy that contains:
- no statistics
- no references to other national tragedies
- no newspaper headline references
- no mention of the media, or lack thereof
- a focus on some aspect of the tragedy that no one else talks about much, if at all”.
I wrote about a second-hand story told to me about an act of kindness in the wake of 9/11. This is written in chained lunes. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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clean wet lines
left by the tear tracks
on her face
Continue reading ‘Help’
A little early for Poefusion’s Friday Five this week, but none the less, here it is. This week’s words were:
social worker
mop
hotel room
beeper
fire alarm
Enjoy.
-Nicole
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my beeper goes off
then the fire alarm screams
dropped my mop, started
now social worker found dead
in hotel room, I just heard
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written off of the lyric and verse challenge prompt on Poets Who Blog Interactive. The prompt was to write a poem with the first line being any lyric in the Leonard Cohen song, “I’m Your Man”. WARNING: this one is quite bitter and caustic. If you’re not in the mood for this, come back and read another day.
Raven Feathers
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