My suggested prompt for One Single Impression, “Defenses Down”, is their prompt for the week of September 7 (prompt #28). This is the poem I wrote for the prompt. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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I drank to soften nerves that were
cutting me like unseen knives
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This chained lune was written for the One Single Impression Prompt this week (Resolve). Enjoy.
-Nicole
her eyes, steel
twin orbs of fire focus
on her target
taut, yet quivering
faintly, held by pinching fingers
the arrow waits
she releases both
breath and arrow in a
single, swift motion
years of painful
perspiring practice pay off as
the arrow sails
and plunges its
sharp head into the red,
round center bullseye
Written 8/23/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written for One Single Impression Prompt #25: Homecoming. The title is the actual name of the current and 14th Dalai Lama. Enjoy.
-Nicole
fourteen stones
winding, smooth, and wet
across a cold, spinning river
laid end to end
in a diagonal pattern of stars
homeward bound to Heaven
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This chained lune was written for the One Single Impression Prompt this week, “Stairways”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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madness calls me
to drift down subway stairways
seeking dark scenes
nighttime casts clothing
a different city emerges, wild
Metropolis, the whore
decked out in
the finest concrete and neon
she glows, electric
and I see
her true blood, fragrant, coursing
through subway veins
junkies, freaks, madmen
bottle-blond horny women and
high-heeled queens
gangstas, and businessmen
on a secret double-sided
neon nighttime life
this I love
unscrubbed, raw, real, blood pulse
unsanitized and filthy
and I can
see it all nightly by
a stairway descent
Written 8/10/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Stumble It!
This senryu was written for the “faces” prompt at One Single Impression. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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magic through needles
erases lines but not age
time still marches on
Written 7/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This sijo was written for the One Single Impression prompt this week (“rest”). Enjoy.
-Nicole
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empty mannequins animated by external fire -
the search for success, a whip-cracking bitch denying them rest
it finally shoves them, still wearing their suits, into soft earth graves
Written 7/20/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
This was written last month, but I thought it fit in with the “Through A Window” prompt on One Single Impression. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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the girl squirms around in the back seat of
her daddy’s eighty-six taurus to watch out of
the back windshield disappearing palm trees
and green leaves, verdant dots and dashes
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This was written for this week’s One Single Impression prompt #18, “doorway”. I delved into the Bible for inspiration for this pantoum, “Doorways”. This is also for this week’s Writer’s Island Matinee Muse prompt, “Avenge”. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Where is the blood?
My secret sword screams
for Egyptian throats to slit -
doorways betray their keepers.
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This was written for the One Single Impression prompt (Melody). Here is my take on the prompt, written as a pantoum. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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A T C G
four notes to compose
every organic living thing
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