This was written off of the lyric and verse challenge prompt on Poets Who Blog Interactive. The prompt was to write a poem with the first line being any lyric in the Leonard Cohen song, “I’m Your Man”. WARNING: this one is quite bitter and caustic. If you’re not in the mood for this, come back and read another day.
-Nicole Continue reading
This is a poem written off of another prompt on Scott Woods’ journal. Today’s prompt: write a poem that is a letter to an old teacher. Enjoy.
-Nicole
Dear Mr. Kinney: thank you for giving
me Excalibur – the knowledge of great words
and how to use them. You showed the living
soul of advanced vocabulary heard Continue reading
This was a prompt poem written in response to One Simple Impression’s prompt this week on pets. Instead of a haiku, though, I ended up with a triple sonnet using the rhyme scheme I accidentally invented yesterday (yes, I am going to call it a Nicholsonian sonnet – it’s a takeoff of the Spenserian sonnet form). So here it is. Enjoy.
-Nicole
Long ago in Nippon, I, sitting, waved
a sword at a landlord of great wealth
and caused him to approach me; thus I saved
him from a lightning strike. The man himself Continue reading
This poem was written for Scott Wood’s LiveJournal writing prompt (“Write a poem inserting the phrase: ‘I love you, but I can’t see you right now’”). The subject matter was partially inspired by the prompt on Simply Snickers, but the poem specifically for that prompt needs to be written still.
This was written as a modified Spenserian sonnet – in short, I misremembered the rhyme scheme, which is [abab bcbc cdcd ee] and wrote it with a rhyme scheme of [abab cbcb dbdb dd]. So perhaps I have created a Nicholsonian sonnet? 
It remains to be seen.
Anyway, enjoy.
-Nicole
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I love you, but I can’t see you right now.
You are an enigma from beyond the grave;
the facts of your life you never allowed
yourself to reveal. In order to save Continue reading
