This tanka was written for two prompts – Monday Mural at Poefusion (which uses the above picture) and One Single Impression Prompt #32: Serendipity. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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torn pages in the wind
a white bird lands in my palm
singing silent songs
in ink; I wanted a ride
instead, I found someone’s soul
Written 10/5/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written for the Monday Mural Prompt on Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Your voice is a soft bed with clean
sheets. I can sleep in it. I can dream
in it. I could drift away in the sea of
your songs, the currents of your sonic
rivers.
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I’m a little late for Monday Mural, but the image was so inspiring…that I wrote this poem for it. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I would caress
her soft, painted back now
but I would ruin the art
before my hungry eyes
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This Fib chain was written for the Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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a
face
forms in
fingerprints
my fingers form you
pixelated grayscale wonder
who
are
you, this
face coming
out of my mind to
stare at me from paper, wordless?
I
probe
for the
mysteries
behind your silent
eyes, paintbrushes, and collapsed spine
Written 8/31/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This chained lune was written for Poefusion’s “Monday Mural” prompt. Another foray into the darkness. This might be a bit disturbing, but I hope you enjoy anyway.
-Nicole
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This was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural prompt this week. Enjoy.
-Nicole
window blinds, silent and drawn
blocking the outside world
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This was written for Poefusion’s Monday Mural prompt this week. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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she gazes heavenward
frozen, arms stretched to the sky
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This skeltonic was written for the Monday Mural Prompt for this week over at Poefusion. I took a darker approach to the photo. Enjoy.
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I am chaos, personified.
I testify
that I am about to die;
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This sedoka was written for this week’s Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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inert silent earth
lies beneath statued trees and
silver mirrors of water
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This American Sentence was written for the Monday Mural prompt at Poefusion. Enjoy.
-Nicole
Birds perch and peer at us, perplexed by our need to notate song in notes.
Written 7/20/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
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
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I wrote this hay(na)ku chain for the Monday Mural prompt from Poefusion. This week’s mural is pictured above. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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hair
pinned up
reveals blank skin
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