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 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.
One of my poems, “You Can’t Tell Me”, was published in the July 9th issue of in Word Slaw. Check it out at:
http://wordslaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-cant-tell-me-nnicholson.html.
This was written for Three Word Wednesday; today’s three words were: inappropriate, order, and shortcut. This was also inspired by this post I read on Paisley’s blog, “My Rose”. Enjoy.
*There is a video of me reading this on YouTube!*
-Nicole
I’m half here. The half of me that is here functions robotically as an android on autopilot, following in exact order a set of preprogrammed instructions: get up, shower, dress, apply makeup, style her hair, eat breakfast, go to work, go home, cook dinner, and eat. At the end of this daily sequence, she falls into her soft bed, all the while hoping it will turn into a cotton soft cloud and she will awake the next morning in Heaven above instead of on Earth below. I read her programming and try to pen poetry from gems hidden in its ordinary, everyday dirt.
Continue reading ‘I’m Half Here’
This was written for this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt. This week’s words are: indifferent, pour, and reason. I decided to do free verse this time. WARNING: This is also one of my more bitter and angry poems. If you are not in the mood to read, I suggest you come back another day. If you’re not scared, read on.
-Nicole
Continue reading ‘My Answer’
This was written for the Matinee Muse prompt “Guardian” on Writer’s Island…and as a poetic reaction to “Stranger” and “To The Stranger”. Since I wrote the first two poems, I wondered how the mysterious big city import would respond to the speaker…and wrote this as his response in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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division -
my heart
cleaved in two
Continue reading ‘Reticence’
This poem was written off of this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt - write a poem with the words “open”, “frequent”, and “someday”. Note: The poem is based off of events in the musical “Rent”. Angel and all other characters mentioned in the poem are from that musical and are the creations of Jonathan Larson (1960 -1996).
Thank you, Jonathan.
-Nicole
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I frequent the Life Support group.
I am there whenever those doors are open,
and the people there are open to
me,
you,
and anybody else who walks through those doors. Continue reading ‘Angel’
“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 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 ‘Roller Coaster’
This poem can be read in the June 2008 edition of Word Catalyst Magazine:
This was a poetic reaction to David Pitchford’s “Song to Bathsheba”,
-Nicole
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 ‘Wounds’
My size
And my eyes
Betray me,
Give me away,
Shout a message of power
On the path before me Continue reading ‘A Lament’
The Lord’s handiwork -
Does the human frame count as
A poetic form?
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Sometimes,
I bleed
On paper
Instead
Of inside.
Will I
Hemorrhage
Whole books
Before
I die?
Written 4/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Time,
Moving too fast -
I can barely catch my breath. Continue reading ‘Speed’
Can you dissect
Sex?
For some a reflex,
For some it reflects
The love and longing
That abide inside
Those swept away in the tide
Of another person’s universe. Continue reading ‘Sex’
This poem was inspired by the sight of a very awesome site, ChristianGoth.com. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Untold,
In my soul -
A thousand Hallelujahs.
I walk the catacombs
Where darkness roams
To find my way to the light,
Though I live at the edge of night,
Bearing torches in my heart
For the lonely
The forgotten
Begotten
Of God and Man. Continue reading ‘Christian Gothic’
My skin is iron,
My face a mask -
Yet I move silently through
Life, making not a sound. Continue reading ‘Release’
Close the door -
It’s too crowded out there.
Let’s cavort behind our dark door.
Let no one see how we love.
I can dance easier without
Prying eyes;
I can love easier
Without disapproving spies.
So heed my words
And let’s be wise -
Close the door, baby.
Close the door.
Written 4/8/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Empty page
Empty space
Empty mind
Empty heart
This is writer’s block
And I am
Empty
Of words.
Written 4/10/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Raven Feathers
My new chapbook - now available!
Item #: RWP-1
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