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Eiffel Tower [15 Words or Less]

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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. 

Eiffel Tower

Photo: Laura P. Salas

We went to the Eiffel Tower kind of on a whim, on our last day in Paris. Wow. It was just so beautiful and elegant. We ended up going to the top, since there were no crowds! This image makes me think of several things:

  1. how the thirst for beauty, knowledge, and God always gets personified as stretching upward
  2. garden ornaments
  3. the apartment at the very top

And here’s my first draft. I had fun writing this For Rent ad!

eiffel tower 15wol

 

It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS! (Title doesn’t count toward word count.)

 

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Comments

  1. Gracefully stretching
    a hand to the sky
    Sunbeams and moonshine
    trickling by

  2. My husband and I went to Paris to celebrate our 15th anniversary. Our hotel was near the tower. We are coming up of 35 years, so this is a nice memory.

    That summer
    we walked all over Paris,
    the tower beckoned,
    stood guard,
    guided us home.

    • What a nice way to remember your anniversary! Hey, just an idea…Could you maybe “borrow” the image (with Laura’s permission or find another maybe YOU took) and put your 15 words on it – send it in to easyCanvas or somewhere like it…make an anniversary gift…for your 35th, remembering your 15th in 15 words…
      Just a thought!

    • I like that the towers light giddied you home we all knead the beacon right now in these times

  3. Fun! I want that apartment at the top…..well, maybe just to visit.

    I Love Paris

    Cloudy skies
    play my tune
    I Love Paris
    Ella croons
    love is here
    all year.

    Here is Ella singing (#11) I Love Paris: https://www.timeout.com/paris/en/music/best-paris-songs

    Have a great day everybody! I have a full day of Science Boot Camp in the library with 8th graders. We invited a real army drill sergeant to call some cadences for kids to move from station to station. Ha! Should be fun.

  5. HA! I love, Love, LOVE when this happens! Delighted by that picture and the way you’ve played with it – and the words came out in one fell swoop! 15 words, 30 seconds. LOVE, Love, love…giggle!

    Painting Paris

    Thrust up through
    The trees
    To sky
    It paints
    The clouds
    As they
    Go by

    By Donna JT Smith

  6. Second attempt Laura. My first try supposedly “went” but I never received the confirm screen, so this should not be a duplicate. Love the sky (is it filtered?) and a new take on “tiny houses.”

    Symbolic and Simplified

    Solid base
    slow, steady
    gradation
    sky’s the limit
    world’s at your feet
    schematic for life.

    • It is filtered–the original pic is lovely, too, I think. But I like the “unreality” of filtered pics. Gets rid of some of the details and lets me morph things into other things more easily:>) You can see the original here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210712400798414&l=77cb067233

      What a beautiful analogy! And how often do I see “schematic” in a poem. Love that! And it perfectly fits this feat of engineering.

      • You are correct. The original pic is awesome; the filtered version displays a more light, whimsical voice which fits perfectly with the 15 WOL participation.

  7. I love tis pic

    Poem By Jessica Bigi

    To remember our
    Country’s young
    Our forefathers
    Forging steel
    Hammers of
    Sparking stars
    Beamed giant
    Reflecting peace

  8. I had no idea the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be a temporary structure, ironic in view of the poem I wrote. I did know Parisians were against it at first. The history I just browsed to find a title for my poem is fascinating. Still no title comes to mind and I am out of time.

    When Paris crumbles
    to empty space,
    will I still stand
    to mark her place?

  9. KALEIDOSCOPE
    Iron rises,
    Pierces the sky
    Revealing triangles of truth
    Like fractured light through a kaleidoscope.

    Thanks for sharing the inspiring (and beautiful) picture!
    Ann Magee

    • Thanks, Ann–glad you enjoyed the photo. It was one of my favorites from the trip! Great, strong words: iron, pierces, revealing, fractured

  10. Love the perspective on this photograph–and the cool effect you added!

    Stained Glass Sky

    Towering branches cut panes
    of pink and blue sky,
    sunlight fuses them
    together.

  11. What a lovely picture! I love the look of the sky.

    HIGH RISE TOO HIGH

    They built the tower high
    until it touched the sky.
    The blue shattered;
    everyone scattered.

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