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Fractured Armageddon

Written 3/8/11 and 3/9/11
© 2011 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
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This poem was composed for the last We Write Poems Prompt, Make Your Own Wordle. I went with writing the poem inside the Wordle itself which the Wordle website spat back out at me — with some modifications and a lot of help from GIMP (an image manipulation program). The original Wordle is below, and I hope you enjoyed the poem. In case you didn’t know, you’ll need to click on the image to enlarge it.

-Nicole


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Nightmares on Patmos

The flame of a question:
how does one wake from the nightmare
when the nightmare was knitted from strands stolen
from your own epidermis? You cannot possibly understand
the weight of a nation straining, back breaking
underneath a sky that someone told you was no longer yours
to claim: how that sky becomes leaden and brackish when
someone steals its leash and turns its teeth on you.
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Revelation

This week’s Read Write Poem Prompt suggested that we pick a vowel sound and use it through out the poem, but this week, my Muse decided he wanted to play around with alliteration and assonance instead — so I listened, and the result is this poem.

Also, I’ve been reading Galway Kinnell’s The Book of Nightmares and have been inspired to use nightmares as a theme this week — this is my third poem about nightmares. I hope you enjoy the read.

-Nicole

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Many nights I have spent, my back bent and busted
from hoof prints imprinting themselves, galloping
out of the gold-edged leaves of Bible paper. I
started life
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