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
Continue reading ‘Exit’
This was written for the Matinee Muse “Avenge” prompt on Writer’s Island. This is a lune. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Blood for blood
is a pointless, miserable exchange -
no one wins.
Written 6/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
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’
An endless refrain
Of pain
Sings through her body
Every morning
As her joints wake up to the morning sun
And her wallet wakes up, yawning empty
From the money she spent
To chase away the pain. Continue reading ‘Symphony’
Misery
Loves company -
And companies
Love misery,
Especially those whose brightly colored
Rags beckon from the check-out counter.
I counter
Their gossip
With a look of disdain
As they profit from stardom’s pain.
Written 4/29/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
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’
If all you care about
Is multiplying
Then you stand to keep
Dividing
The flesh from feeling
While your women and children are reeling
From the split
And the pain of it.
Continue reading ‘El Dorado’
Scars on the inside
Bleed profusely, thanks to my
Unfinished business.
Written 4/5/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
Lent –
Our darkness.
We lent our darkness to the Lord
Long ago –
Continue reading ‘Lent’
Raven Feathers
My new chapbook - now available!
Item #: RWP-1
Price: $5.00 USD
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