Photo: Laura Purdie Salas
Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)!
I love this sculpture?inside a building in downtown Minneapolis. I don’t usually like art of people, but abstractions like this are fun. It makes me think of:
1) Decorated skulls and bones in Europe
2) The framework of a skyscraper
3) An X‑ray
And here’s my poem first draft:
I Am Art
my steel skeleton,
azurite eyes,
welded skin
needs admirersI tip my hat
to you–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.
I’m teaching at a Young Authors Conference all week and won’t be able to comment on your poems. I hope you have fun with them!
48 Responses
Thick as steel
Light as bone
Brand new body
But no one home
Kind of a reference to robots taking over the world… Love this picture!
I like the reference to ‘no one home’. Fun!
Thick as steel
Light as bone
Brand new body
But no one home
Kind of a reference to robots taking over the world… Love this picture!
I like the reference to ‘no one home’. Fun!
Fred–Late, Again
Got my hat.
Where’s my shoe?
I can’t dance
without the two.
Diane Mayr
http://youtu.be/VNEq9D3-ibY
Sorry, I just wanted to leave the link, it didn’t realize it would automatically embed the video!
Love Fred and his dancing! How fun that you thought of him1
It was the hat! There’s a photo of him in a straw hat from the film, Second Chorus, which you can view here.
Well, that didn’t work, here’s the link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astaire_in_Second_Chorus_2.jpg
Fred–Late, Again
Got my hat.
Where’s my shoe?
I can’t dance
without the two.
Diane Mayr
http://youtu.be/VNEq9D3-ibY
Sorry, I just wanted to leave the link, it didn’t realize it would automatically embed the video!
Love Fred and his dancing! How fun that you thought of him1
It was the hat! There’s a photo of him in a straw hat from the film, Second Chorus, which you can view here.
Well, that didn’t work, here’s the link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astaire_in_Second_Chorus_2.jpg
I love art that goes beyond what we usually imagine. And like your “welded skin”, Laura. Mine is a bit similar in that he’s wanting to be seen.
It?s no mystery.
I seem to be
?empty me?.
Yet I?m admired,
?cause I?m ?wired?!
I like your rhymes and fun ending.
OBSERVER
Airy thoughts
suspended in place
ponder the pace
of those
B
E
L
O
W
I love art that goes beyond what we usually imagine. And like your “welded skin”, Laura. Mine is a bit similar in that he’s wanting to be seen.
It?s no mystery.
I seem to be
?empty me?.
Yet I?m admired,
?cause I?m ?wired?!
I like your rhymes and fun ending.
OBSERVER
Airy thoughts
suspended in place
ponder the pace
of those
B
E
L
O
W
Brain
100,000 miles
of nerve highways,
100 trillion
synapse intersections?
traffic slows, beeps,
please, no gridlock!
?Kate Coombs
Ha! I always have gridlock… 🙂 Fun poem!
Brain
100,000 miles
of nerve highways,
100 trillion
synapse intersections?
traffic slows, beeps,
please, no gridlock!
?Kate Coombs
Ha! I always have gridlock… 🙂 Fun poem!
Empty-headed
I face my days -
wondering what
I came up here for
Empty-headed
I face my days -
wondering what
I came up here for
I tipped my hat to cool my head
and lost my hot ideas, instead.
Ha! I can relate to this.
I tipped my hat to cool my head
and lost my hot ideas, instead.
Ha! I can relate to this.
Cognitive Auction
Steel-trap mind.
Snap! Will bind
the thoughts you lose?
snippets of muse.
Once!
Twice!
Sold!
~Penny Klostermann
Cognitive Auction
Steel-trap mind.
Snap! Will bind
the thoughts you lose?
snippets of muse.
Once!
Twice!
Sold!
~Penny Klostermann
Right brain left brain
Logic or arts
Best situations would
Meld both parts.
Or maybe even a lean closer to the arts side!
I agree
Right brain left brain
Logic or arts
Best situations would
Meld both parts.
Or maybe even a lean closer to the arts side!
I agree
Kids scramble up to play in my head,
pounding my steel exterior
brain falls out. 😛
Kids scramble up to play in my head,
pounding my steel exterior
brain falls out. 😛
SEE-THROUGH TEETH
misplaced ears,
Concaved nose, hollow eyes,
I’m a steel-cut skeleton
No longer in disguise.
© Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
SEE-THROUGH TEETH
misplaced ears,
Concaved nose, hollow eyes,
I’m a steel-cut skeleton
No longer in disguise.
© Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
Memories escape
like leaves
swirling
on a blustery day,
scattering self,
change-of-life
squall.
Buffy, I like that idea of memories escaping as I look at the pic. And that added image of leaves swirling, then scattering-not Autumn, but this brings it to my mind.
Memories escape
like leaves
swirling
on a blustery day,
scattering self,
change-of-life
squall.
Buffy, I like that idea of memories escaping as I look at the pic. And that added image of leaves swirling, then scattering-not Autumn, but this brings it to my mind.
The picture reminds me of lobster traps…
so my poem on mainelywrite.blogspot.com is:
Currents of thoughts,
like water through
a trap,
with turning tides,
return
yet untapped.
The picture reminds me of lobster traps…
so my poem on mainelywrite.blogspot.com is:
Currents of thoughts,
like water through
a trap,
with turning tides,
return
yet untapped.