Guidelines

Guidelines: (1) Include your name, the title of your original poem, and a brief comment about yourself; (2) Poems may be in any language (please include an English translation); (3) Poems may not violate Nicolet's Social Media Guidelines; (4) Original poems may be submitted anonymously; (5) Submit poems to Ocie Kilgus (okilgus@nicoletcollege.edu). Students who submit original poems are eligible for the Best Original Poem contest. The student with the best poem will be awarded the Ron Parkinson Poetry Matters Student Scholarship Award in the amount of $300. The community member with the best poem will receive dinner for two at Church Street Inn, Hazelhurst. Upon the closing of the Poetry Project, a faculty committee will select the winning poems. The winners of the contest will be recognized at Nicolet College's Award Ceremonies on May 10.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

April 23, 2014

“Care”
By Maria Biolo
 
• In this uncounted society a constant worry of concern neglected to halt,
• 'Nowhere, impossible, broken' -Found empty in his big head,
• This revolution has no solution and God can't take any new substitution,
• Omid quotes the trials of tomorrow,
• Said by the one and only wild cat Bizzaro,
• This argument is endless- pretty soon she'll make it out friendless,
-I don't care for caire, don't care, Cair-
• In this uncounted society I prefer to be ruined more than a loose fuze confusin me,
• Respect walked out the door,
• The fact they're adding phoney lonesome tax attacks against the poor,
• It's weekly, it's all around yearly,
• The government giving illegal narcotics switching up logic with spiritual genetics,
• Making little but tons Sunday newspaper topics smooshing free ethics,
• We could really use some hope right now,

• Grab onto my rope and make a wish right now,
• A social problem too big for a local diss,
• Pouring out thousands, trillions and more than millions of golden fibs,
• Scattered all across to eliminate our distinguished scared cross,
• Pick yourself up and stop letting this corrupt,
• You probably want a truthful answer,
• There's a man inside this white house and I call him a cancer,
• I never really have cared for caire.

“My name is Maria Biolo and I'm a Junior at Rhinelander High School.”

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