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 26, 2012
"Economic Pie"
By William Fath
Economic Pie
Charts Do Not Feed the Hungry
Change is What We Need.
I was bored in class and wrote a Haiku. It means talking about the fact that people are starving to death will do absolutely nothing for us. We need real change.
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"Mono"
By Shane Teter
Why not once?
A single bursting forth
In nine months
Would elevate our worth.
Supply-side
Cuts to boost our demand
For one ride
After the infant's arm band.
Life's a game
Of stout, hardcore players--
Still the same
For cocooned, winged flyers.
Not this soul,
Nor this time, and not this earth
Have this goal:
To be again in rebirth.
I wrote this as a contrarian reply to someone who argued about how great it would be to be reincarnated. It uses a three/six rhythm.
