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WWP Poem #40/Big Tent Poem: To Bless These Tired Throats

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:16:58 +0000

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This poem was written for two prompts: We Write Poems Prompt #40: Triptych Relationship and this week’s Big Tent Poetry Prompt, which was a Wordle. I adore Wordles, and I love triptych poems. Two things inspired this poem: 1) a broadcast on CNN yesterday afternoon about the protests in Egypt, and 2) the fact that today in the Catholic calendar is the Feast of St. Blaise, and throats are being blessed today by priests because of this. I hope you enjoyed this poem.

-Nicole
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Stumble It!

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Revolution Progress Update, 5/1/08

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:46:09 +0000

Well, yesterday was the last day of April, and I’ve written my 100 poems. 50 of them are posted here. The other fifty are chapbook material or stuff I am leaving aside to continue development on.

Overall, I’m glad I took the challenge. If nothing else, it forced me to produce. It forced me to write and really rethink the idea of what I could write about. I found ideas mostly jumping in front of me and presenting themselves easily. And I was able to silence my inner critic long enough to stop her from rejecting an idea before I wrote once I kept my focus on the 100 poem goal.

Oddly enough, I ended up with a mean case of writer’s block yesterday evening. With five left to write. I don’t know why – perhaps being so near to the goal line. Thank God, I got past it.

I have to thank David. This whole thing was his idea.

I want to do this again next year.

-Nicole

Haiku #4, 4/27/08

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:17:29 +0000

Gray skies overhead
Clash horribly with the smell
Of their barbecue.

Written 4/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

Body

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:11:10 +0000

Body
Locked inside
My body
Slave to its desires
Its cravings
I can’t ignore it
Lest in the end
It ignores me

Written 4/30/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

Haiku #2, 4/30/08

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:06:40 +0000

Death and sex connected
Not just in le petit mort -
Also HIV

Written 4/30/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

A Lament

ravenswingpoetry — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:02:12 +0000

My size
And my eyes
Betray me,
Give me away,
Shout a message of power
On the path before me
For all to see,
When sometimes I’d rather
Crawl up and disappear.
I don’t notice
Folks noticing
Me -
But who am I kidding?
My plus-sized brown body
And black eyes
Will always make sure
That I can’t hide.

Written 4/30/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

Open Mic

ravenswingpoetry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:52:21 +0000

Bearing their hearts, lives, and
Thoughts on a stage -
Nightly
Weekly
Across this land,
Their words and essence painted
On a performance sheet.
We can read their lines.
No lofty bards -
Just people with a gift for sharing shards
Of their lives,
Good or bad,
Whole or broken,
Right or wrong.
They write
What matters
And lay it bare before an
Open Mic.

Haiku #4, 4/29/08

ravenswingpoetry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:48:21 +0000

The Lord’s handiwork -
Does the human frame count as
A poetic form?

Tabloids

ravenswingpoetry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:45:58 +0000

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.

Haiku #3, 4/29/08

ravenswingpoetry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:42:59 +0000

Around her shoulders
A strong, long, lean black arm
Down which his love flows