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Winter Before Fall? [15 Words or Less]

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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 out of town once again this week. Lord. Next week, I will be back to usual. I miss you guys! My daughter Annabelle sent me this funny […]

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The Voice of Winter–a Villanelle [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was Tanita’s choice: A villanelle on a wintry topic, including a pair of words (or homonyms thereof) from the following eleven: bleak, draft, gutter, chill, chime, glitter, gust, harsh, rime, nip, thaw. I always find the […]

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Echeveria [15 Words or Less]

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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 back from my magnificent week on the Great Lakes! What an adventure–you will start seeing photos here soon from that! Meanwhile… I bought a succulent at the […]

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Fall Tree [15 Words or Less]

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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.  You guys, I am away from my office doing some exciting research. Check out my Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram feeds (I’m @LauraPSalas on all three) to see a […]

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Ox Appeal, from EEK, YOU REEK! #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I got to have lunch with Lerner editors Carol Hinz and Shaina Olmanson last week (rescheduled after I went to the wrong restaurant on our first attempt!). Here we are, all together at last! After lunch, Carol gave me a copy of EEK, YOU REEK! […]

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Perfect Raspberry [15 Words or Less]

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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.    This image makes me think of several things:

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Moth Surprise [15 Words or Less]

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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.  This pink underwing moth (I think?) lay dead on our front porch a couple of weeks ago :>( This image makes me think of several things:

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Visiting Elizabeth Dulemba’s Blog!

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Happy Monday! In case you missed it, illustrator Claudine Gévry and I shared bits of our process for Snack, Snooze, Skedaddle over at the blog of the fabulous Liz Dulemba on Friday. (Teachers, do you use her awesome coloring pages?) I hope you’ll stop by to learn a few of Claudine’s secrets and see some […]

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From a City Dweller to Her Love [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Sara’s daughter, Rebecca, who’s been joining us recently (yay!), posed our challenge this month: a pastoral. She wrote: Some inspiration from The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms: “The pastoral is central to poetry. In a simplified definition, it […]

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City Bird [15 Words or Less]

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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 love that even in a townhome very near a city’s downtown, I can look out my window and most days catch glimpses of birds, squirrels, butterflies and […]

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