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
Continue reading ‘Days That You Will Never Forget’
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
Continue reading ‘What I Would Tell His Family’
This week’s Poefusion Friday Five used these words: grandfather, post office, photo album, folder, and broken window. I wrote a fib sequence (three regular fibs, three mirrored fibs, and three reverse fibs) using this week’s words. Enjoy.
-Nicole
you
grew
up in
a town with
one post office and
a river splitting it in two
Continue reading ‘Pieces of You’
Poefusion has a new prompt: Title Tuesdays! I am coming in a day late, but I wrote something for it. This week’s title was “Three Feathers Fall A Heart”. I wrote a chain of Fibs for this prompt.
Don’t know what a Fib is? According to Wikipedia, it is a “an experimental Western poetry form, bearing similarities to haiku, but based on the Fibonacci sequence”. It is a six-line form with twenty syllables total - the syllable breakdown is 1/1/2/3/5/8. For more info heck out Wikipedia’s entry, this article, and the blog of Gregory K. Pincus.
Enjoy….
-Nicole
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three
white
feathers
fall to earth
shed by an angel
on his way to face his judgment
Continue reading ‘Three White Feathers’
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
Continue reading ‘Desire’
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
Continue reading ‘Light’
This cinquian chain was written in response to this week’s Poefusion’s Friday Five prompt. This week’s words were: priest, ring, garden, magnifying glass, and backseat. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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He sits
in the garden,
considering an unseen
fork in the future path before
his feet.
Continue reading ‘He Sits in the Garden’
This, thought not written for today’s Meme Express prompt, ended up fitting in with the prompt’s theme, “forgetfulness” - a nice instance of coincidence…or did I pick up on something universal in the air? I don’t know. This triple sonnet was namely written as a poetic reaction to Patricia Smith’s poem, “Building Nicole’s Mama”.
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My name is Nicole. I am not the same
rusty-kneed little girl with braid ends sealed
by fire who asked you how to reclaim
her dead mother through words, how to reveal
Continue reading ‘An Open Letter to Patricia Smith’
This chained lune was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural, based on the above image. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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The old tree was dying,
her wood drying
as ancient life left her.
Continue reading ‘The Old Tree’
This was written for this week’s One Single Impression prompt #18, “doorway”. I delved into the Bible for inspiration for this pantoum, “Doorways”. This is also for this week’s Writer’s Island Matinee Muse prompt, “Avenge”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Where is the blood?
My secret sword screams
for Egyptian throats to slit -
doorways betray their keepers.
Continue reading ‘Doorways’
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
Continue reading ‘Piano Lesson’
To read “Vietnam Fire” visit Word Catalyst Magazine:
“http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html#anchor1121499.
To read more about Phan Thi Kim Phuc and the famous photo that inspired this poem, check out the article about her on Wikipedia.
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 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
Continue reading ‘To the Stranger’
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
Continue reading ‘The Artist’
This was written for the Friday Five Prompt at Poefusion. This week’s words were: doctor, roll of film, secret, telephone, and stairwell. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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You want this. You want this secret burning
connection as badly as I do. In
the stairwell we dampen this shared yearning
with looks saturated with words, unspoken –
Continue reading ‘You Want This’
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 ‘Stranger’
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 ‘Thank You, George’
This was written off of a prompt on Scott Woods’ live journal - write a poem using the words “piecemeal”, “gallery”, “submission”, and “belt”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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The young orphaned boy grew into a man
forever in submission to sorrow and a
bright burning anger. His servitude was Continue reading ‘The Dark Knight’
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