“Elegy” was published in Young American Poets on Tuesday, November 25! To go read the poem, visit:
http://youngamericanpoets.blogspot.com/2008/11/elegy.html
And heck, while you’re at it, check out the rest of the poets on the site. Some amazing stuff.
-Nicole
This was written for the Read Write Poem Prompt #47: Of Monsters and Dinosaurs Enjoy.
-Nicole
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bone upon bone
ash upon ash
dust upon dust
femurs meet like cursed wood to form a cross
death at the epicenter
frozen inside the still, lifeless ground at my feet
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This was written for the Monday Mural Prompt on Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Your voice is a soft bed with clean
sheets. I can sleep in it. I can dream
in it. I could drift away in the sea of
your songs, the currents of your sonic
rivers.
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This chained lune was written for One Single Impression Prompt #29: Seeds. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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the heart of
a young girl is fertile
ground for sowing
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This was written for Read Write Poem prompt #44: Elegies and Rememberances. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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(for Karen Carpenter)
A.M. radio
nineteen and seventy nine
I hear you keeping time
a beat against which sonic softness and lyrical wine
were painted and sainted
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This was written for the Tuesday Title prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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beautiful fractures
China doll eyes
and a body too thin
to sustain you
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This was written for Read Write Poem Prompt #42: Catch Some Words. I actually had composed this early this morning, before I even knew about the prompt…..
I had come across the poem “Abortion Stories” when reading a book of Jim Morrison’s poetry…and then found out that the words later became The Doors’ song, “Peace Frog”. These are the words that caught me:
“Indians scattered on a dawn’s highway bleeding,
ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.”
From there, I was inspired to write “Nightmare”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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(for J. Morrison)
You were five.
This was when they still called you “Jimmy”.
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This was written for One Single Impression Prompt #25: Homecoming. The title is the actual name of the current and 14th Dalai Lama. Enjoy.
-Nicole
fourteen stones
winding, smooth, and wet
across a cold, spinning river
laid end to end
in a diagonal pattern of stars
homeward bound to Heaven
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This is a ballad written for Read Write Poem Prompt #37: Hotel California. Simply, we were to write a ballad. Since I don’t normally write ballads, this was a real struggle for me, both in finding subject matter and in writing the actual ballad itself.
When I checked out Wikipedia’s entry for the subject, I discovered a list of modern ballads, which includes “Hotel California” and…Me and Bobby McGee, written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster and made famous by…Janis Joplin.
The song started to float through my head and then it hit me – why not a ballad about Janis Joplin? So, here goes. I even followed the rules of traditional ballads, writing this poem in ballad meter! I hope you enjoy.
-Nicole
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Who will sing about this singer
and the liquid, blue songs
pouring forth from her heart and veins
now that she is long gone?
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This fib chain was written, actually, for both of the Rocking Chair Prompts this week: “What’s really on your mind?” and “What days in your life will you always remember and why?” Enjoy.
-Nicole
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for
some
it was
Kennedy
gunned down in a car
in broad Dallas motorcade daylight
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This sedoka was written for One Single Impression Prompt #20: Myth. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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side one: tall, weathered
a black-clad clarion call
notorious sinner singer
side two: gentle, wise
examining the world around
him for fingerprints of God
Written 7/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
I 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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