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’
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’
This cinquian chain was written in response to this week’s Poefusion’s Friday Five prompt. This week’s words were: priest, ring, garden, magnifying glass, and backseat. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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He sits
in the garden,
considering an unseen
fork in the future path before
his feet.
Continue reading ‘He Sits in the Garden’
This chained lune was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural, based on the above image. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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The old tree was dying,
her wood drying
as ancient life left her.
Continue reading ‘The Old Tree’
This was written for the Matinee Muse prompt “Guardian” on Writer’s Island…and as a poetic reaction to “Stranger” and “To The Stranger”. Since I wrote the first two poems, I wondered how the mysterious big city import would respond to the speaker…and wrote this as his response in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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division -
my heart
cleaved in two
Continue reading ‘Reticence’
This was written for the Curiosity prompt on Writer’s Island and as a continuation of Stranger, written last week. This is a reverse hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I want to
read the
books
Continue reading ‘To the Stranger’
This was written for the Friday Five Prompt at Poefusion. This week’s words were: doctor, roll of film, secret, telephone, and stairwell. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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You want this. You want this secret burning
connection as badly as I do. In
the stairwell we dampen this shared yearning
with looks saturated with words, unspoken –
Continue reading ‘You Want This’
This was written for two of this week’s Writer’s Island prompts (Coercion and Awakening) and was inspired by this post on The Diva Muse’s Blog (allthingsbootylicious.com) as well as experiences from my own adolescence. I wrote this in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Roses
don’t open
before their time; Continue reading ‘Roses’
This poem was written off of this week’s Three Word Wednesday prompt - write a poem with the words “open”, “frequent”, and “someday”. Note: The poem is based off of events in the musical “Rent”. Angel and all other characters mentioned in the poem are from that musical and are the creations of Jonathan Larson (1960 -1996).
Thank you, Jonathan.
-Nicole
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I frequent the Life Support group.
I am there whenever those doors are open,
and the people there are open to
me,
you,
and anybody else who walks through those doors. Continue reading ‘Angel’
This was also written off of prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal - begin a poem with “It wasn’t like him” as the first line. Here’s what I came up with - another chained hay(na)ku. (Am I working those chained hay(na)kus lately or what?) Anyway, enjoy.
-Nicole
It
wasn’t like
him at all
to
cry, to
shed one tear Continue reading ‘It Wasn’t Like Him’
This poem comes from prompt #9 on Scott Wood’s journal - “Write a poem about the worst advice you ever got”. This is the result - a chained hay(na)ku about some bad advice my aunt (yes, the notorious one, for those who know) gave me in high school. Implied and unspoken advice, no less. Anyway, enjoy.
-Nicole
The
worst advice
I ever received
was
to let
the man make
the
first move;
in other words, Continue reading ‘The Worst Advice That I Have Ever Received’
I wrote a second poem for this last week’s Read Write Poem Prompt (which was to take a poem in one form and rewrite it in another form). I took “Arizona, Remembered”, originally written as three stanzas of rhyme royal, and turned it into a Hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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God’s
paintbrush danced
in Arizona’s desert -
sand
was a
pale peach canvas Continue reading ‘Desert’
This poem is dedicated to everyone.
-Nicole
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Be strong;
Be healthy;
Be here.
Live not as mere margins
On history’s pages, Continue reading ‘Be’
You and me and the river made three,
A summer’s baptism under moonlight:
I’ve never forget that August night. Continue reading ‘River Song’
Stillness in kitchen,
Punctuated by laughter
As we make our meal.
Written 4/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Do not be mastered by
Hate,
For your fate
Depends on
How you relate
To hate. Continue reading ‘Hate’
Gifts won’t erase the pain -
It’s plain
To see
That you don’t love me;
You only love your gifts. Continue reading ‘Gifts’
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 ‘Sex’
My skin is iron,
My face a mask -
Yet I move silently through
Life, making not a sound. Continue reading ‘Release’
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