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 29, 2015

April 29, 2015

"Perugia"
By Lexi Nelson


Il cielo è il più bel blu
la tua città è come un sogno
quando penso a te le parole non sono
Perugia, io ti voglio bene
sei la mia seconda casa
ho un'altra famiglia
più di tutto voglio tornare
Perugia, io ti voglio bene


Your sky is the most beautiful blue,
your city is like a dream
when i think of you, the words just don't come
Perugia I love you
You are my second home
I have another family there
more than anything I want to return,
Perugia I love you


"I am a high school senior enrolled in Nicolet classes through ITV."

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"the end of the road"
By Winda Collins
 
shattered dreams and tattered hopes
living a life of what ifs and whys
 
making choices and choosing unwisely
in that respect I suspect we are no different
 
beings of imperfection we humans make mistakes
susceptible to rejection and pain
 
but what saddens me and thoroughly maddens me
is that you refuse to rise above the past and let it all go
 
instead preferring as you continue referring
to enemies who no longer care
 
you've nothing to gain by this journey
through memory's pain
 
but you'll not destroy my hopes and dreams
 
i no longer care to share this road
of hateful despair with you
 
if you're hell bent on traveling this same road
in the same old mode go on without me
 
this trip you can make alone