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.

Friday, April 12, 2013

April 12, 2013

“Journey into Darkness”
Anonymous

The spark shown within your eyes
Tells a story that bares truth and deception
Was it all a disguise or purely a game of deceit?

Can you not see the damage that has been done
Or the pestilence of hate that you have created
Simply by your mere presence

My heart will never heal from the wreckage you
Left behind for all the world to see in the night
This was your plan all along to desecrate and devastate

Take your sparkle and your ice with you as you go
Make no mistakes as you go far from here
For there will be no mercy to be shown this be your fate

“I have written many things in my life and this is my first attempt at Poetry.” 

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No poetry by faculty/staff members for today's posting.