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.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

April 19, 2016

“Life of Want”
By William Keiffer

We souls of want are what we desire,
Consumed in the passion of its chase.
Few hope for a form that is higher
While others can wallow in something more base.
To want betterment of life is not to be cursed
And is part of us that is want.
yet If we only aspire our needed base thirst,
our lack of control will only taunt.
If we crave betterment of ill align
Consumed by the materials of lust
Yet we can stake a claim in life divine
Though a dedicated virtue of existence just
               Life is still of want and appetite
               Many lead down, only few lead to light. 

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“Three Brothers”
By Tina Kolberg Lee

They are together again as when they were young
in the happy hunting ground.

The sky is blue, the fish are biting
the hunting couldn't be better.
The fragrance in the air is deep with pine.

They have been reunited with their Mother and Father,
the stories don’t end.

They patiently will wait until we join them, 
in the happy hunting ground. 

"I wrote this poem when my Father's last Brother passed away. They were raised to love and respect nature through their Father who was Native American."