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“Hush” Featured as the Daily Poem on Poetry Friends

ravenswingpoetry — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:01 +0000

“Hush” was featured today as the Daily Poem on Poetry Friends. To read “Hush”, visit:

http://poetryfriends.blogspot.com/2008/06/poem-by-nicole-nicholson.html

-Nicole

If You Want A Boxer

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:56 +0000

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

If you want a boxer, then why don’t you
go punch someone else? My skin is not
a leather casing which contains a few
million grains of sand inside! You forgot

that I stand before you as a human,
bruised, battered, sore from all the times you got
angry and I was the first one to stand
in your way. Don’t give me that bloody rot

about how I supposedly made you
lose your religion: believe me, I’ve got
your number now, and I now know that you
have no self-control. I’ve taken a lot

of abuse from you, but no more. Time’s up.
I’m not listening anymore, so shut up.

Written 6/12/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

Roller Coaster

ravenswingpoetry — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:07:05 +0000

This was written off of a prompt from Simply Snickers, a site with prompts for poets. ~~The catch? You must rhyme in some way.~~ (I thought I had to rhyme, but I guess you don’t. Oh well. Still, I like this poem.)

I chose the Chaucerian roundel, again (easy use of forms is why I intend to master more of them) to do this thing. The prompt was to write a poem using the words “roller” and “coaster” in it. So I took the metaphoric meaning of a roller coaster instead of the literal. Enjoy.

-Nicole

You were a roller-coaster ride
taking my heart up and down
until I thought I’d drown

in a ocean created when I cried
from your cavalierness. I found
that I was easily tossed aside

when you felt unable to decide
to commit or not to be bound
to me – such a sophomoric clown!
You were a roller-coaster ride.

Stumble It!

Wounds

ravenswingpoetry — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:14:28 +0000

“get lost” by ~Standing-Apart

I participated in the latest challenge on Poets Who Blog, which was to create a poem using a list of ten words (these ten words are highlighted in the poem below. The result was this poem, “Wounds”. Enjoy.

-Nicole
————————————————————————

They say time heals all wounds.
How precious is that healing
As I try to collect in into my heart and
Desperately to try avoid a role reversal -
I don’t want to turn into a monster
Like you.
Clarify for me why I should
Forgive you
Now,
For I still wear volatile wounds from your
Silent disapprovals and caustic cut-downs,
And I still remember how I used to flutter inside
When I saw your hand raised, reared back, and
Ready to hit me again.
I would escape into fantasy – books and daydreams –
To dull the pain,
To make me forget,
And to help hasten the day when my magic number –
Eighteen –
Would come up and I could leave you forever -
And I did.

But now – now you say that
You come in peace?

Get bent.

Stumble It!