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 (I don’t know why)
3) Eavesdropping on my big sisters when I was a kid
And here’s my poem first draft:
Through the Cracks
I press closer.
Beyond the dry, grey fence:
My sisters
My future
Myself
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
What do you think of when you look at this picture? Take any quick idea and jot down a 15 Words or Less poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme or describe this picture. It’s just about whatever you think of when you look at it.
40 Responses
TRAPPED
chink in the wall
tiny crak
just enought space
for hope
for possibilities
to fly
Always need hope.
TRAPPED
chink in the wall
tiny crak
just enought space
for hope
for possibilities
to fly
Always need hope.
I BUILT IT
Just a few rocks,
not much to see,
they’re stones to you…
Stonehenge to me.
- ? 2013, Matt Forrest Esenwine
I like the poem and its message.
I BUILT IT
Just a few rocks,
not much to see,
they’re stones to you…
Stonehenge to me.
- ? 2013, Matt Forrest Esenwine
I like the poem and its message.
Paint Chart Blues
188 blues
yet none of them
come close to
matching her
undertones.
© Diane Mayr
awesome
🙂
The first word in the third line should be comes. (Slapping head…)
Paint Chart Blues
188 blues
yet none of them
come close to
matching her
undertones.
© Diane Mayr
awesome
🙂
The first word in the third line should be comes. (Slapping head…)
Grass
Grass falls on stone.
Stone doesn?t stir.
Grass dries, blows away,
leaving blue shadows.
?Kate Coombs
Love “blue shadows”–beautiful image.
Grass
Grass falls on stone.
Stone doesn?t stir.
Grass dries, blows away,
leaving blue shadows.
?Kate Coombs
Love “blue shadows”–beautiful image.
SHOPPING SPREE
My regret too late-
this paperweight
is holding me accountable
to bills of big ammountables.
love the rhyming here
Fun word play and rhyme!
SHOPPING SPREE
My regret too late-
this paperweight
is holding me accountable
to bills of big ammountables.
love the rhyming here
Fun word play and rhyme!
ESCAPE
Tight, teal prison
woos me to hide,
but ocean offers
out
on the tide.
© Andria W. Rosenbaum
Teal prison is intriguing–nice!
ESCAPE
Tight, teal prison
woos me to hide,
but ocean offers
out
on the tide.
© Andria W. Rosenbaum
Teal prison is intriguing–nice!
Trek to Lake Michigan
Bubbly black tar
sticks to toes;
sand burns,
hot as coals:
plunge in,
dive below.
Trek to Lake Michigan
Bubbly black tar
sticks to toes;
sand burns,
hot as coals:
plunge in,
dive below.
Rain-washed rocks
Shift just enough
Perfect peep hole
For passing notes
To friends
Have you ever seen Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream? They have a goofy play-within-a-play about Pyramus and Thisbe, young Greek lovers who whisper through a chink in the wall. Yours is friendlier, though. 🙂
Rain-washed rocks
Shift just enough
Perfect peep hole
For passing notes
To friends
Have you ever seen Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream? They have a goofy play-within-a-play about Pyramus and Thisbe, young Greek lovers who whisper through a chink in the wall. Yours is friendlier, though. 🙂
Good morning, all. But to Laura: Oh my. Your poem took my breath away. I am in love with this one: the words, the pacing, the captured vision and memory. I see what you see through your words. Thank you.
Good morning, all. But to Laura: Oh my. Your poem took my breath away. I am in love with this one: the words, the pacing, the captured vision and memory. I see what you see through your words. Thank you.
WEEKLY VISIT
Chipped fence,
A peek-a-boo
of light,
Free baseball
game.
© Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
WEEKLY VISIT
Chipped fence,
A peek-a-boo
of light,
Free baseball
game.
© Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.