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.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

April 28, 2011

"A Sonnet, Melodic"
By Allie Zacharias

Ever lasts my undying love for
Melodic verses, so compassionate
Piercing those drums of my ears, ever more Feeling so joyous, I've dreamt of such fate

Never known a voice so pure,
something rare As it's called,
a song, as it is, a song Such magic is shown,
nothing to spare Brought out, in being withheld for so long

A light shining, so brilliant, a sight
Viewed within mind, behind eyes awaiting To see such a beauty as is heard right Invisible,
yet hardly is fading

Goes forth, the harmonies forever on
Music said, heard in mind, and never gone

"Music is essential, an overlooked value in our lives. Its importance is great and inspirational. Peace, love, and harmony."

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"Perchance"
By Jeff Eaton

On the bedroom wall
The mirror swallows the moon.
A dream rises full.

"I am a member of the English faculty at Nicolet. As a poet, I believe in the power of compressed, concise images, as championed by the haiku form, though I also apply that concept to longer narrative works and song lyrics."