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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.
Last month, I did a storytime with the St. Paul Saints (baseball team) Reading Tree program at a local library. Mudonna, the Saints’ pig mascot, was there. What a ham (hehe)! Seriously, she is so great. I wish I could take her along on school visits. Kids will do anything, including lie on the floor so they can “wake up” during IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT and guess the answers to the riddle-ku in LION OF THE SKY, if Mudonna is doing it, too:>)
This image makes me think of several things:
- the kindergartner who threw up during my school visit :>(
- guilt over how much I love bacon
- how we are different and alike
And here’s my first draft.
It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS! (Title doesn’t count toward word count.)
25 Responses
Aw, I love the last line! So full of hope.
Pig listens
to your story
nods his agreement,
swaying to the sound
until The End.
You capture a very specific moment so beautifully, Margaret.
I couldn’t help but wonder what The End might mean!
I cannot believe it’s August either. School busses have been running here for a full week. The photo is so cute, and sweet!
Mudonna’s Farewell to Summer
Love the wee ones
Ms. Lara too
one last hoorah
so much to do.
KICKOFF!
Aw, that is so sweet. And yes, it is that time of year again where everything is kicking up the gear I absolutely love fall, but since our daughter is only home till late August, I am refusing to look ahead to fall yet.
Book Friends
squeal, giggle, thrump-dump-dump
down stairs
words
to mind
to inner eye
to life!
My book friends are all fully alive! I didn’t even think until now that Mudonna was like a storybook character come to life. I’m not sure if that’s what you meant to evoke with your poem, but that’s what it meant to me, and I smiled.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant to evoke, Laura, and I’m glad it made you smile! I was also thinking about how the household items in your picture book, In the Middle of the Night, come to life through your wonderful words and images, and, if even in our imagination, become our “friends”.
Yay, that makes me even happier:>)
Friendship
We’re friends, but
different
in
our
looks.
Different
in
our
cultures.
Different,
but we’re friends.
Yes! Said so simply and beautifully. Why is this such a hard concept for some people?
I forgot to say that I love how the last line is the first line, just rearranged.
Hey, is this a skinny? You did it so well!!
What a fun reading!
Charlotte Reads to Wilbur
Some piggies like mud.
Some piggies like slop.
Some piggies like stories
with heroes that hop!
(alternate ending: from their local bookshop.)
Aw, Wilbur… For some reason, the character of Wilbur totally reminds me of our beagle, Jackie. Neither one with us in real life anymore but both still so much loved.
That’s Some Pig, Terrific! Gret picture and poem.
The Reading-Tree
You’re a kid;
I’m a pig,
different certainly.
Side-by-side we’re the same,
under the Reading-Tree.
Love seeing you in action, Laura!
At the Library
Stories with
pigs, lions, children, sky…
We listen, imagine, connect,
fly.
Lovely! And almost a cinquain. I love the last word.
Library Fun
by Dianne Moritz
Piggy likes stories.
HA, HA, HA!
And finding new friends.
LA, LA, LA!
I can just hear a four-year-old chanting this, Dianne!
Sory it is over 15 So say for the loss of our frien and floow poet Lee 🙁
Reading Nursery
Rime’s And pomes
poem by Jessica Bigi
first little built a library
scent little piggy
filled shelve with books
third little piggy
invited Laura to read
kids laughing-laughing
all the way home
(first little piggy) it should be
Oh, mercy, I hadn’t heard about Lee! Haven’t been on social media really today. What a sad day for children and poets:(
DIFFERENT
Dare to be different
For all to see
Sitting up there
Right next to me
Anne McKenna
Yes! I love this take, Anne! Great to see you 🙂