Category Archives: Ideas

Poems about ideas

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Georgie Boy

I read this week’s Read Write Poem prompt in which I read about the PEN Poem Relay for Shi_Tao, a journalist imprisoned by the Chinese government. After that, I read this news article about Bush criticizing China’s human rights issues. These inspired to write this poem, although it is really not for the prompt. I will be writing something specific for it later.

This is not a skeltonic in the strictest sense, but I borrow from the form heavily for this work.

It is incendiary. You don’t have to agree. I just ask you to listen.

-Nicole

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“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
-James Baldwin

Georgie boy,
what do your words mean?
Georgie boy,
your scream is not a scream.
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Forgotten Conversations

I had been thinking about this piece since Monday. This title was turning over and over again in my brain; I ended up writing it for Three Word Wednesday, since this week’s words, “million”, “time”, and “unnoticed”, lent themselves well to my churning thoughts. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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A million voices have weaved themselves together. They lie as chaotic tapestry, matted hair, within the recesses of my brain. I can no longer distinguish who said what and when, but unlike erased and empty chalkboards which bare nothing but black blankness, my mind holds on to ghost strand memories. I see the placeholders of words, but only as faint outlines containing invisible space.
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Earth

This sedoka was written for this week’s Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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inert silent earth
lies beneath statued trees and
silver mirrors of water
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Senryu #1, 7/27/08

This senryu was written for the “faces” prompt at One Single Impression. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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magic through needles
erases lines but not age
time still marches on

Written 7/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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Skeltonic #1

This was written for this week’s Simply Snickers prompt (to use the words “wonder” and “wait”). This time, I tried my hand at Skeltonic verse, which I discover that I love because of its rapid-fire rhyme scheme. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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Popcorn dreams
bursting at the seams
of my brain –
I might go insane Continue reading →

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Truth

This was written for the Matinee Muse “Avenge” prompt on Writer’s Island. This is a lune. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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Blood for blood
is a pointless, miserable exchange -
no one wins.

Written 6/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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American Sentence #1

I discovered American Sentences on the blogs of Scot Young and Nathan Moore. The American Sentence is a poetic form created by the late Allen Ginsberg. According to the American Sentences website, they are “haiku-length poems that Allen suggested be limited to 17 syllables, like haiku in Japanese and like the Heart Sutra in Buddhism”. Inspired by Scot and Nathan, I will start composing and posting American Sentences here on Raven’s Wing Poetry. For your reading pleasure this week, I give you American Sentence #1:

Souls connect through fiber optic conduits carrying silent words.

Written 6/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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Subway Art

This poem is for Poefusion’s Monday Mural, written as a Spenserian sonnet. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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I try to decode the mysterious
message written in the half-random lines Continue reading →

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A T C G

This was written for the One Single Impression prompt (Melody). Here is my take on the prompt, written as a pantoum. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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A T C G
four notes to compose
every organic living thing
cellular symphonies Continue reading →