I wrote this hay(na)ku chain for the Monday Mural prompt from Poefusion. This week’s mural is pictured above. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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hair
pinned up
reveals blank skin
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Category Archives: Hay(na)ku
Light
This 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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Piano Lesson
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
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Reticence
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
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To the Stranger
This was written for the Curiosity prompt on Writer’s Island and as a continuation of Stranger, written last week. This is a reverse hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I want to
read the
books
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The Artist
This poem was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #33: Wordplay is the New Black. We were encouraged in this word limiting exercise to find a way to compose poems out of a limited number of words. Some possibilities included: Shufflewords, taking words out of a book, using random words flying around in one’s brain. I devised my own way, which was to limit myself to words founds in the lyrics of R.E.M.’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction. I used the lyrics available at Kipp Teague’s RetroWeb site and wrote a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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light
open-armed
haloed garden colors
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Stranger
This was written for both this week’s Three Word Wednesday Prompt (the words: shake, spontaneous, and rumor) and as a second poem for the “questionable” prompt over at Writer’s Island. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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lithe
fine-boned
ethereal blond stranger Continue reading
Thank You, George
George Carlin by J.M. DeSantis
George Carlin
May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008
NOTE: For this poem, I have no problem if anyone wishes to take and use it. All I ask is that you let me know and state that I am the author. See my contact info for more details.
-Nicole
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You who made
us laugh,
friend – Continue reading
Dichotomy
This was written for a Writer’s Island prompt, “Questionable” and was inspired by this post on the Diva Muse’s blog about the term MILF. Enjoy.
-Nicole
Why
is female
sexuality a division, Continue reading
Roses
This was written for two of this week’s Writer’s Island prompts (Coercion and Awakening) and was inspired by this post on The Diva Muse’s Blog (allthingsbootylicious.com) as well as experiences from my own adolescence. I wrote this in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Roses
don’t open
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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
