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. Our maple tree has been bare for ages, except for one or two last, lonely leaves. This image makes me think of several
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 sister Patty has always been the artist in our family. She is crafty and artistic, though she hasn’t had much time for
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. Last night, as Randy and I were driving home from downtown, there was this cool contrail like a long thin cloud shearing the
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, last Saturday, I looked at our Poetry Princess challenge list for this year and discovered we were sharing villanelles this week. On the theme of brevity or shortness. Which was funny, because a villanelle is a long
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. A couple of weeks ago, Randy and I went to an exhibit called Martin Luther and the Reformation at the Minneapolis Institute of
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 often use filters, but this pic of the thin layer of ice on our street (which I was sliding around on while
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 is Captain Jack’s pawprint on our front sidewalk. Something about our weather cycle of snow, melt, freeze, etc., and that fact that
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. Here’s a pic of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park, which I walked through several times a day at NCTE. This image makes me think
Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) The Poetry Princesses are starting off 2017 with somonka, two combined Japanese tanka written in a love poem/response form. What better way to start off a new year than with some love? Still, with the end of a
Hello, and welcome to the first 15 Words or Less Poems of 2017! 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. At NCTE in Atlanta, walking back and forth from my hotel to the
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