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 was written for two prompts, actually: Read Write Poem #36 (”Ekphrastic Extravaganza”) and Totally Optional Prompts (”Ghazal”). The painting is “Nanda” by Rick Mobbs and is from his blog “Mine Enemy Grows Older”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Wordless thin lips form a short line on a sunken face -
a folded wire woman draped in yards of soft black.
Continue reading ‘Black’
This fib chain was written for Poefusion’s Friday Five prompt. This week’s words were: wail, hay, scrawl, clobber, and encourage. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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stones
lay
scattered
tornado
scrawled our homelessness
onto to the land in rock letters
Continue reading ‘Tornado’
This was actually written a few weeks ago, but I’m posting it for the ghazal prompt on Totally Optional Prompts. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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The milquetoast father, polite and serene
never dared to raise his voice or holler.
Continue reading ‘Holler’
This sestina was written for this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt: to use the words “narrow”, “history”, and “spent”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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History may record the firecracker chaos
born of steel wills clashing in these
Birmingham streets, the clashing of love
and hate, bigotry and tolerance, law
enforcers and law breakers. It may speak
of water hoses, dogs, nightsticks, angry
Continue reading ‘History’
This was actually written for three prompts: Poefusion’s Title Tuesday (“Stung by the Splendor of Sudden Black”), Writer’s Island (“Farewell”), and Simply Snickers (use the words “standing” and “still”). I wrote this entirely in American Sentences. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Stung by the splendor of sudden black, I failed to
bid farewell to you. Nothingness erased the
last still frame where you stood and painted it
black. I called your name, but Silence devoured my
cries into its belly. An obsidian wall separated life
and death – and therefore, us.
Continue reading ‘Departure’
Shed blood disappears into hot, harsh sand - but not from their memories.
Written 7/14/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Here is a performance of “I’m Half Here” on YouTube (filmed at Writer’s Block Poetry at Kafe Kerouac):
This chain of regular and reverse hay(na)ku was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural Prompt (the mural is above). Enjoy.
-Nicole
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one
night I
had a dream
I walked the
streets of
Memphis
Continue reading ‘Memphis’
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.
This was a sedoka written for Read Write Poem Prompt #35: “fun in the sun” (NOT!). Here is my take. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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released from the jaws
of school, time was now my own
to sculpt summer freedom with
twenty years later
loneliness wraps around me
in emptied, silent school halls
Written 7/11/08
© 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’
If you want to hear an awesome night of jazz and poetry, come out to Writer’s Block First Draft Night on Friday, July 18 at 8 PM at Kafe Kerouac!. This month’s First Draft will feature poets reading with a jazz band, so be sure NOT to miss this show! There will also be an open mic, and should you *ahem* want to come and read YOUR poetry, you will have the option to read with OR without music. First Draft Night, hosted by Joanna Schroeder, is a night for NEW POETRY ONLY - stuff that has *never* been read in public before - so come out to hear great new poetry or to read your OWN never before performed work! Cover is $3.
If you are in the Central Ohio area, I encourage you to come to Say That on July 19 at 7 PM. What is Say That, you ask? Say That is a one night poetry event hosted by Kim Hight, who was a featured poet at Poetry in the Spring this past May at Ohio State University. The feature poet at Say That is none other than Vernell Bristow of Writer’s Block Poetry! Vernell is an awesome poet to hear, and there will be an open mic as well. And by the way, there will be appetizers served. So whether you want to perform, listen to awesome poetry, or BOTH, I would encourage you to come out to this one-night only event! I will be there as well, and I will also have my new chapbook there if you’d like to pick up a copy.
The Details:
What: Say That
Where: Sher Bliss, 1394 Cherry Bottom Road, Gahanna, Ohio 43230
When: July 19 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Admission: $ 7
Feature Poet: Vernell Bristow
Includes Open Mic
Below are flyers for Say That (should you want to print them and oh, distribute them far and wide):
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Stumble It!
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’
This was written for this week’s Totally Optional Prompt: tempo. I chose to write about an alternate meaning of the word for this hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
you
made me
lose a tempo
Continue reading ‘The End of A Marriage’
One of my poems, “You Can’t Tell Me”, was published in the July 9th issue of in Word Slaw. Check it out at:
http://wordslaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-cant-tell-me-nnicholson.html.
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’
Last month, I was featured as a Favorite Writer on PoetryDances.com. Today, the sitemaster of Poetry Dances sent me an e-mail with a link to their press release for June!
To read the press release, visit:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/93824
-Nicole
This was written for Three Word Wednesday; today’s three words were: inappropriate, order, and shortcut. This was also inspired by this post I read on Paisley’s blog, “My Rose”. Enjoy.
*There is a video of me reading this on YouTube!*
-Nicole
I’m half here. The half of me that is here functions robotically as an android on autopilot, following in exact order a set of preprogrammed instructions: get up, shower, dress, apply makeup, style her hair, eat breakfast, go to work, go home, cook dinner, and eat. At the end of this daily sequence, she falls into her soft bed, all the while hoping it will turn into a cotton soft cloud and she will awake the next morning in Heaven above instead of on Earth below. I read her programming and try to pen poetry from gems hidden in its ordinary, everyday dirt.
Continue reading ‘I’m Half Here’
Raven Feathers
My new chapbook - now available!
Item #: RWP-1
Price: $5.00 USD
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