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.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

April 29, 2012

"Diversities of Snow"
By Rachel Yeomans

Snow can fall as fluffy feathers
Gently floating to the ground
Sweeping through the winter skies
Dusting all the world around
Scattering quickly at a stir
Laughing as they run unbound

Snow can fall as tiny stones
Dancing down in pretty bits
Littering the turf it falls on
So full of glee it can't long sit
But prancing, hopping those crystals seem
To bounce off everything they hit

Snow can fall quite dense and cold
So wet one can't see each perfect flake
It's more like slush, it sticks quite well
Like thick white frosting on a cake
This type of snow covers all it can
Glorying in the coat of white it makes

College dabbler and loving every minute of it!

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"YouTube Education"
By Shane Teter

YouTube education
In looping, 5-minute
Flashes and rotation:
Tell me that you "Like" it.

Post your thoughts and wisdom
"Boring or awesum,
Or that Obama sux"
Legare globus lux

Here's one that I wrote when feeling cynical and grouchy about how uninformed everyone is, myself excluded of course. :) The last line is Latin for "to learn from the glowing light".