Support Local Initiatives with NickNak
Join us in supporting local initiatives and honoring the Phoenix Fighters who refuse to stay down.
Join us in supporting local initiatives and honoring the Phoenix Fighters who refuse to stay down.
Welcome to the ❤️ of a mission-driven movement born from 🔥, loss, and the unbreakable will to rebuild. What started as a passion for handcrafted goods and community resilience has evolved into NickNak, a full-scale online makers-place uniting eco-conscious creators, 🔥 survivors, small U.S. businesses, and local initiatives like the Phoenix Fighters under one roof. 🐉
Submit your poems, stories, and testimonials of rising from the ashes like the Phoenix through local initiatives at NickNak. Join the community of Phoenix Fighters at Nick@NickNak.org.
Every ember tells a story. When you shop with NickNak, you’re not just buying a product; you’re uplifting a neighbor, honoring resilience, and supporting local initiatives that help rebuild what fire tried to erase. Stand with the makers and rise with the Phoenix Fighters. Be part of the comeback.
I keep battling for freedom.
I made mistakes, let’s not repeat 'em. All these blessings, ya, I need 'em.
I’m still fightin' with my demons; this armor took a beatin' while this land continues bleedin'.
I just keep battling for freedom.
I’m a Makavelian menace from Melbourne to Venice, my Beretta named princess. While Vendettas lose witness.
Plead the 5th, no forgiveness; drinking fifths, doing business.
No one would ever predict this. They all know I’m the sickest.
Stashing crypto, being cryptic while you limp dick cynics complain over senate.
You know I resent it, how they steal and kill, all to build suboxone clinics. The past and the present refer to me as the reverend as I lead you to heaven.
We rise above all this tension to be led to the land of forbidden. You got these damn politicians preaching lies for commission while there’s these broken veterans, sold for oil and gold, alone and abandoned, left cold outside of the fold.
Controlled, led to opiate dens, still at war in their heads, turned into zombies. I’m talking the vertical dead.
I’m done with all this pretend. Just as I start to ascend, I look around for a friend; there’s just a bottle of Henn. Depression sets in all over again.
Using Adderall as collateral to keep the youth unilateral, this is undeniable. Our leaders are unreliable, feeders of homicidal subliminal messaging to keep the masses at idle.
I’m all alone, no rival. Please prepare for arrival; welcome to my revival, the only chance for survival. My words compile a bible, coming for every title.
Manic masked messages making me smile. Wartime ready, I look to God as his child as I'm escaping the wild, trying to make the most out of what's only a little while.
Through local initiatives and with the spirit of the Phoenix Fighters, I rise from the ashes, fighting for change.
🐦🔥 By: Nicholas Mikes 🐦🔥
Paralysis rampant
Rhetoric at the ready
Like excuses
molded to lips
Easy pouring
Every sip
Just little drips
once more
and that’s it
If just once
I could follow
through on the plan
I know every detail to
Maybe then I could break through
Enjoy the views
Oh, my excuse what's its use?
Abuse
translated into hyper focusing
Lost signals that I’m enough
A temporary distraction
to be of importance
enough to be considered
as more than a sales pitch
flipped in the ditch
If we got as high off on morality
than maybe reality wouldn’t crush like gravity
glad to be humanity’s canopy of what to believe.
Everything I need to achieve
Indeed, except a deed of succeed
circumstances convene
With a need to be redeemed
To glean
a soul with a beam
Truly manifest
like that of a friend
Hone in and heal
what caused you to seal
away
fading to shade
Not quite aligned
within questioning
the very thing
which the sting
has inflicted a common theme,
familiar feeling
that you can’t quite achieve
magically because tragically
fashionably faked keepsakes
Stir and ache
what I hesitate to awake
all the while dictate the stakes
like the odds at the gate.
The fate of being late is never the same as having to create
Motivation awaits
Better luck with your fate
Complaints on changed saints
Maybe
the first Sunday they’ll be able to be honest with themselves.
In the spirit of local initiatives, let’s rise together like the Phoenix Fighters, embracing change like NickNak to break free from the cycle.
What happens when orange and yellow
Turn to greens and blues?
And calm and mellow
Turn to “what’s the use”?
When purples and pinks
Turn to grays and blacks?
And right on the brink
Turns to all has collapsed?
When bright and vivid
Become angry and livid?
Memories imprinted
Become weak and timid?
What happens when the rules we follow
Become empty and hollow?
When hardship and sorrow
Become all that we swallow?
When local initiatives are warm,
And truth becomes torn?
When the oath you’ve sworn,
Becomes a sharp scorn?
When the opal and jades
Turn a heart to a spade?
When the soft of the pales,
Yield nothing but fails?
What happens when the battle inside,
Remains confined in the mind?
When the need to rewind,
Consumes all the time?
When the colors return,
When doubt grows discern,
When the green of the fern,
Makes the winds start to turn?
What happens when the sun and the light;
Bring the stars and the night?
Return only, by dawn’s early bright.
Wind in the face, no cloud in sight.
When the moon and the waves,
Create every phase?
When the twists of the maze,
Become basic and straight?
What happens is, the tides,
They do change.
And constellations arrange.
What’s crazy and strange
Is no longer deranged.
Then the greens and the blues,
Turn to purplish hues.
The blacks and the grays,
Turn to radiant rays.
Then life and its trials,
Turn to happy and smiles.
Then papers and files,
Turn to journeys of miles.
What matters isn’t the shade,
The quality, the grade;
Right on time, or delayed.
But the crusade displayed while you’re still
afraid.
As we embrace the Phoenix Fighters,
And their journey toward hope and light.
About NickNak
— A Story of Ashes, Roots, and Rebirth —
From smoke and silence, NickNak rose.
Not just as a business, but as a promise to support local initiatives.
To rebuild with heart.
To honor what was lost.
And to carry forward the handmade soul of the land we love.
Born in Northern California,
shaped by fire and family,
NickNak is a place where every product carries purpose —
where artisans, makers, and survivors, including our community of Phoenix Fighters, find a common thread.
Here, nothing is mass-produced.
Everything is meaningful.
We craft collections not to follow trends,
but to tell stories.
Of healing hands, of rooted resilience,
and of beauty that endures.
Our phoenix doesn’t just rise —
it rebuilds, recycles, and reimagines.
NickNak is for the ones who believe
that from burnt soil, flowers still bloom.
That art can rise from ashes.
And that when we shop with intention,
we create more than a moment —
we create a movement.
Welcome to the nest.
You're right on time.
🐦🔥
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