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 28, 2016
"Us"
By Samantha Reichl
I haven’t been truly happy in months.
I want to forget about how
I’m just watching my life happen.
A casual bystander
To my own existence.
I’ve been trying to write out
The feeling of wanting your arms
Tight around me.
Because in those seconds
Where our universes collided
I was alive.
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“November Evening”
By Jane Banning
Darkles down
this mossy mood
leaf-littered
and chalky-stoned
An unlit forest
under stale sky
an unsparkled hush
that rankles
Dank and prosaic
this unbreathed silence
quashes
freshened hope
