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 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

“Living Free”
By Lindsey Carstensen
 
Punch the clock
The time drags on
Unpaid bills and an empty fridge
We all work to live
Had enough
Break the ties that hold me down
Spread my wings, learn to fly
When I don’t work to live
Call in sick                          
My spirit escapes, sores above the clouds
Take a trip
Learning I can fly and still live
Pack a back pack
A one way ticket and a map
The train pulls up
Where to go, where to live
Destination unknown
Heart wide open, no looking back
Where I’ll be no one knows
Happiness will find me when I’m not working to live
 
“I wrote this poem for Jeff Eaton’s Creative Writing class.”
 
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"Untitled”
By Penny Kuckkahn
 
Thinking spring is on its way,
But Mother Nature says no way.
Snow predicted for another day,
7-11 inches on its way.

“I am far from a writer, but I am working through an online “headless” course – meaning there is no instructor, but offered through University of Washington Mary at my own pace – on digital storytelling. Today I had to write a twitter poem - only rule was 140 characters.”

 

 

 
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