Category: Poems for Teachers

[15 words or less] Stubble

?   Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines are here)! Welcome to my new blog! I’m still decorating and organizing, but I hope to start posting again next week! Here’s what this picture makes me think of: 1) Joysticks2) Razor stubble3)

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[15 words or less poems] Lifeboats

    Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines are here)! I’m on hiatus for a month or so, but I’m posting pictures on Thursdays so you all can still participate if you want to:>) Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of: 1)?Bumper

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[15 words or less poems] To the Sky Light

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I’m on hiatus for a month or so, but I’m posting pictures on Thursdays so you all can still participate if you want to:>) Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of: 1)?The incredibly strong weeds

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[15 words or less poems] Foamy

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I’m on hiatus, but I’m posting pictures on Thursdays so you all can still participate if you want to:>) Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of: 1)?A log cabin 2) The ball pit at McDonald’s

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[15 words or less poems] Wispy

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I’m on hiatus for a month or so, but I’m posting pictures on Thursdays so you all can still participate if you want to:>) Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of: 1)?A cloud that fell

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[15 words or less poems] Spidey?

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I was downtown (Minneapolis) for a food truck lunch with Randy recently, and these window cleaners were hard at work. Here’s what they made me think of: 1)?Those circular swing rides at amusement parks

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[poetry friday] “Fire” (by Laura Purdie Salas)

Check out the cool printable that the Poetry Friday Anthology folks created for my cinquain poem, “Fire!” As we?already know, and as sad national news is proving more than ever this week, firefighters are truly heroes who risk their lives for our safety. (This printable was created before that news

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[15 words or less poems] Blue Mood

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Happy 4th of July! I don’t know if anyone will stop by today, but I’m posting just in case:>) Isn’t this pretty??Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of: 1)?A blue-jay feather 2) A snow wake

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[15 words or less poems] Swan

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I did a young authors conference in Winona, MN, recently, and snapped this pic there. Here’s what it makes me think of. 1)?You are what you eat 2) A swan with feathers made of

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[15 words or less poems] Hay there!

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I was driving home from a school visit in outstate Minnesota when this hay-filled truck passed by. Took a few pix without looking, and this one came out ok.?Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of:

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