Nicole N.
Nicole N is an inspiring force. This poem, written with her as the subject a part of the Sister Series, a series of celebrating individual women and sharing their beauty through poetry.
nicole n.
by Regan Smith
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I was with her once,
sipping tea, discussing the depths
of our minds, the strangeness of dreams;
but I know that this was only a brief encounter,
for she lives in many worlds.
She lives in galaxies, making her home in a
crater in the moon; she lives in a fairy forest;
or among the sand in the middle of an ocean,
maybe a home in one of her worlds is an
open-aired room, thick with incense.
But in every scene, there is a commonality;
she creates fearlessly, passionately–
surrounded by great beauty; she is never alone.
She’s met with an omnipresent force, which fills
her to the brim with joy; whether she creates stars
or streams or galaxies or poetry, it all resonates
with others deeper than Marianas Trench.
But if she never created another seedling,
never wrote another word–even if she never
spoke another sound, her warmth radiates;
her joy is still contagious and creates mindscapes
of moons of dreams and mountains of hope in others.
She is fully seen, fully known, fully loved
for purely her existence.
