This hay(na)ku chain was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #38: Scratch-And-Sniff Poetry, Anyone?. Here is my take on the prompt. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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my
nose could
tell today’s story
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At The Beach
Posted in Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku chain, Poems, Prompt Poems with tags Poems, poetry, poet, hay(na)ku, hay(na)ku chain, read write poem, read write poem prompt, Prompt Poems, prompt, prompt poem, beach, chained haynaku, smell, Eros, erotic, odor, scents, story told in smells, nose on Sunday, August 3, 2008 by ravenswingpoetryWeakness
Posted in Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku, Poems, Prompt Poems with tags Poems, poetry, poet, stereotype, disability, hay(na)ku, hay(na)ku chain, Prompt Poems, prompt, prompt poem, three word wednesday, weakness, admission, labels, stereotypes, Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by ravenswingpoetryI wrote two for Three Word Wednesday - this forward and reverse chained hay(na)ku is the first one. This was inspired by a post on Brian’s blog, “I Detest Labels”. This week’s prompt was to use the words “sticky”, “avoid”, and “class”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
admissions
of weakness
become sticky labels
attaching to skin
covering it
completely
you
soon disappear
beneath the paper
and gummy glue
then some take
up sharpies
and
write
insults upon
your labeled self
all other see
are those
epithets
which
sink beneath
the labels into
your very flesh
you become them
you could
succumb
to
them and
your name transform
into a class
of dysfunction
defining
you
simply by
your admitted weakness
this is why
people might
avoid
sharing
the very
things that could
break them in
everyone else’s
eyes
Written 7/23/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Memphis
Posted in Experiences, Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku, Poems, Prompt Poems with tags Poems, poetry, poet, memory, dream, mystery, music, hay(na)ku, hay(na)ku chain, Prompt Poems, prompt, prompt poem, Monday Mural, poefusion, Memphis, blues, Beale Street, neon, ekphrasis, ekphrastic on Sunday, July 13, 2008 by ravenswingpoetry
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
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What I Would Tell His Family
Posted in Angry, Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku, People, Poems, Prompt Poems with tags Poems, poetry, poet, friend, Angry, hay(na)ku, hay(na)ku chain, Prompt Poems, prompt, prompt poem, reverse hay(na)ku, for a friend, rockin chair prompts on Friday, July 11, 2008 by ravenswingpoetryI wrote this hay(na)ku chain in stanzas of regular and reverse hay(na)ku for Brian’s Rockin’ Chair Prompt #2A (”tell us what’s really on your mind”). Enjoy.
-Nicole
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(for Joel)
he
is fifty
two years old
yet you treat
him like he’s
still
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Light
Posted in Forward and Reverse Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku, Hay(na)ku chain, People, Poems, Prompt Poems with tags Poems, poetry, poet, jealousy, envy, hay(na)ku, hay(na)ku chain, read write poem, read write poem prompt, Egypt, light, Joseph, coat of many colors, dreamer, slavery, pit on Sunday, July 6, 2008 by ravenswingpoetryThis was written for the Read Write Poem prompt #34: “this little light of mine”. On the theme of “light” I played around with the hay(na)ku form, marrying regular and reverse hay(na)ku together in each stanza. “Light” is the result of my experiment. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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light
once shone
in my dreams
from the stars
moon and
sun
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