clouds overhead
and pastel clouds on a stick
cotton candy day
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Category Archives: Things
Haiku #3, 6/12/08
summer cloud ceiling
pins down the hot thick air
wetness without rain
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku #2, 6/12/08
opening skyward
blooms of every color
joyful, unashamed
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku #1, 6/12/08
heavy white blanket:
new snow covers the graveyard -
the dead are sleeping
Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Tabloids
Misery
Loves company -
And companies
Love misery,
Especially those whose brightly colored
Rags beckon from the check-out counter.
I counter
Their gossip
With a look of disdain
As they profit from stardom’s pain.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku #2, 4/29/08
Blooming flower tree -
Electric purple branches
Reach up to the sky.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Haiku # 1, 4/29/08
Statue of Mary
Standing stone still, her arms are
Forever outstretched.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Sex
Can you dissect
Sex?
For some a reflex,
For some it reflects
The love and longing
That abide inside
Those swept away in the tide
Of another person’s universe. Continue reading
Birth
Empty echoes
As sound bounces off of space -
I watch a slow, serene birth
As pipes and wood meet
And mesh
To form one plural voice of many -
E pluribus unum;
Mechanics breathe a wind of life
Inside
Square wooden lungs
And a pipe organ is born.
Written 4/10/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Flame Journey
Dance, flame. Dance.
Dance and undulate.
Lick, flicker, and prance -
Rotate, jump, and gyrate. Continue reading
The Beast
Chimera.
The beast stalks me,
Sinking its sharp teeth
First into my joints,
Then setting its evil eyes
On my liver and heart. Continue reading
