Category Archives: Experiences

Poems about experiences

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Raven

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.
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“Hush” Featured as the Daily Poem on Poetry Friends

“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

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Help

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
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Bad Day At Work

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.

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If You Want A Boxer

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.

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Roller Coaster

This was written off of a prompt from Simply Snickers, a site with prompts for poets. The catch? You must rhyme in some way. (I thought I had to rhyme, but I guess you don’t. Oh well. Still, I like this poem.)

I chose the Chaucerian roundel, again (easy use of forms is why I intend to master more of them) to do this thing. The prompt was to write a poem using the words “roller” and “coaster” in it. So I took the metaphoric meaning of a roller coaster instead of the literal. Enjoy.

-Nicole

You were a roller-coaster ride
taking my heart up and down
until I thought I’d drown Continue reading →

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It Wasn’t Like Him

Premature Baby Feet
“Premature Feet” by ~Bell-of-Flames

This was also written off of prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal – begin a poem with “It wasn’t like him” as the first line. Here’s what I came up with – another chained hay(na)ku. (Am I working those chained hay(na)kus lately or what?) Anyway, enjoy.

-Nicole

It
wasn’t like
him at all

to
cry, to
shed one tear Continue reading →

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Pity Party

This is a Chaucerian roundel written off of a prompt from Scott Wood’s journal – http://scottwoods.livejournal.com/. Today’s prompt was: “A meeting that goes on so long it becomes something other than a meeting.” Enjoy.

-Nicole

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You called us out to this spot by pretense
For something other than a emergency meeting -
You lashed us all with a verbal beating

That left us stung and smarting. Hence
Why our friendships with you are now fleeting;
You called us out to this spot by pretense.

The pain is too great for any recompense
You’d give: we sat as you kvetched on, eating
Three hours up in false blame and mistreating.
You called us out to this spot by pretense.

Written 6/6/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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Desert

Arizona
“Arizona” by ~brittfaye

I wrote a second poem for this last week’s Read Write Poem Prompt (which was to take a poem in one form and rewrite it in another form). I took “Arizona, Remembered”, originally written as three stanzas of rhyme royal, and turned it into a Hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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God’s
paintbrush danced
in Arizona’s desert -

sand
was a
pale peach canvas Continue reading →

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Iraq

This is a poem for this week’s Read Write Poem prompt. This week the prompt was to take a poem written in one form and rewrite it in another. I chose “Katie, Bar The Kitchen Door”, originally a Chaucerian roundel, and rewrote it as a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.

-Nicole

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Iraq
is calling;
will he return?

Grandmother
sheds tears
when he goes;

he
will come
back with scars.

Written 6/2/08
©2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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Wounds

get lost
“get lost” by ~Standing-Apart

I participated in the latest challenge on Poets Who Blog, which was to create a poem using a list of ten words (these ten words are highlighted in the poem below. The result was this poem, “Wounds”. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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They say time heals all wounds.
How precious is that healing
As I try to collect in into my heart and
Desperately to try avoid a role reversal -
I don’t want to turn into a monster
Like you. Continue reading →

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Obsession

This is a poetic response (though kind of like slant rhyme, I’d call this a slant response, since it’s more of a take on the idea of obsession) to “Naked Echo” by David Pitchford. I also suggest checking out “Deep Rooted Want” written by Mother2Rah.

-Nicole

To watch is to want, and
To want beyond the heart’s
Boundaries becomes murder
As you rain covetous concupiscence
Upon the object of your desire Continue reading →