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Forget charts and rules [15 Words or Less]
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. I’m largely off the grid this week and next, so I won’t be able to comment on your poems. I hope you’ll still participate and offer support and
Day 24: Haiku: patio seats, treats
Girls’ day out with my daughter, Annabelle. Last day I’ll see her before her move to La Crosse…
In a Salt Shaker Far, Far Away [15 Words or Less]
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. My older daughter Annabelle is moving to Wisconsin. I am going to miss her funny, loud, energetic, dramatic self SO much! One thing she wanted to do before
Day 17: Haiku: Library beehive
Just got home from picking up a lovely pile of poetry books from my neighborhood library! I love the buzzing hum of activity that’s always there.
Day 15: Haiku: Before the news breaks,
Just thinking about the moments when something terrible has happened but we don’t know it yet…
Day 14: Haiku: sky yells, “Pillow fight!”
A little blizzarding, anyone? I remember a pillow fight when I was a kid, and the pillow ripped and the whole room just filled with white feathers. That’s what it looks like out our windows right now!
Day 13: Haiku: focus ripped into…
Not that this describes me, or anything… Too funny. I was so scatter-brained that I didn’t publish this on April 13 but left it in draft form. Oops.
Recipe for a Poetry Book–Happy Birthday, Lee Bennett Hopkins! [Poetry Friday]
Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Without Lee Bennett Hopkins and his books, I don’t think I’d be writing poetry for children today. When I first got the tiniest of inklings that I might like to dip a toe into the waters of poetry, Lee’s beautiful anthologies were some of the
Day 12: Haiku: headlights slice darkness
I was driving to the gym this morning when a beautiful white bunny zipped across the road in front of me. So glad the roads weren’t icy today!
Blur [15 Words or Less]
Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here. Sometimes I think I have more accidental images on my phone than I do intentional ones! This image makes me think of several things:
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