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 5, 2017
“The Unfinished Work”
By Evelyn Pritchard
Life is the next blank page in an unwritten book
by a novelist with no name
a story that is only an idea in a book full of possibilities
Life is that next word on the line
It is the next thought to pop into a writer’s head
the next combination of those twenty-six letters learned in kindergarten
Life is that novel everyone wants to write
but they don’t because life happened instead
“This poem was inspired by the song “Unwritten.” I feel that a book is the best way to describe life because the only way to see how things turn out is to keep reading and turn to the next page.”
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No poetry by staff or community members for today’s posting.
