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.
April 13, 2011
"A Gardening Poem"
Barbara Gehrke
My back bent so long does ache,
My knees they are permanently brown.
I feel like I have advertised dinner
To every mosquito in town.
I create for the pure joy of creating,
I create to be more than the dust I will someday be,
I create to show beauty to all that choose to remember
That this dirt was once a little bit of me.
My hands are blistered from pulling one too many weeds, and
The baby trees I plant will bear fruit for the future, not me!
So why do I so love this garden
That I will do it all over again next spring?
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"Regimen"
By Karen Barr, Beth Kost, Dianne Lazear
Night;
Dark pudding.
Daylight;
Tapioca,
Unexpected pearls.
"This was silliness at lunch; we were just having fun with structure, words, and images."
