Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)!
Continuing my reliving of this past Father’s Day, we admired the big Eros sculpture outside of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I could swear I featured a photo of this sculpture years ago, with someone looking out of one of the eyes. But I can’t find it. And now that it’s right here practically in my back yard, I feel compelled to share it again:>) It makes me think of:
1) Kleenex the size of king-sized bed sheets
2) What would a plastic surgeon do about those cracks?
3) Who gave me a split lip?
And here’s my?first draft.
For this week’s Padlet, just click here to add your poem.
It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS!??(Title doesn’t count toward word count:>) If you leave a poem in the comments, and if it’s 15 words or less, I’ll try to respond!
82 Responses
The giant, chasing Jack’s smell,
took a tumble and fell.
Alas! Now he’s feeling unwell.
Sounds like a real “fractured” fairy tale–hehehehe:>)
Cute! He’s going to have trouble smelling and fee-fi-fo-fumming now!
He’ll need a giant ice cube on that lip, poor thing.
Who else but Jack and the giant! Cute.
The giant, chasing Jack’s smell,
took a tumble and fell.
Alas! Now he’s feeling unwell.
Sounds like a real “fractured” fairy tale–hehehehe:>)
Cute! He’s going to have trouble smelling and fee-fi-fo-fumming now!
He’ll need a giant ice cube on that lip, poor thing.
Who else but Jack and the giant! Cute.
Laura,
Great contrast here. From painful bursts to fluid-like movement. Beautiful, in an unexpected way. Hard to explain in words. I really like this one a lot. Well done, creative lady! Your poetry brain is definitely awake!
Thank you, Linda–you’re always so encouraging:>)
Laura,
Great contrast here. From painful bursts to fluid-like movement. Beautiful, in an unexpected way. Hard to explain in words. I really like this one a lot. Well done, creative lady! Your poetry brain is definitely awake!
Thank you, Linda–you’re always so encouraging:>)
Sneezing
When you sneeze,
Cover, please!
Don’t let it splatter!
Not too tight -
You might
Shatter!
That nose just begged for a sneezing poem, didn’t it? Love your splatter/shatter.
Love this merging of everyday sneezing with a non-organic being!
Sneezing
When you sneeze,
Cover, please!
Don’t let it splatter!
Not too tight -
You might
Shatter!
That nose just begged for a sneezing poem, didn’t it? Love your splatter/shatter.
Love this merging of everyday sneezing with a non-organic being!
No, Really
“You crack me up,”
Said Literal Fred.
Never knowing
Why his nose bled…
By Donna JT Smith
Sorry! Had to give it one more go!
Poor Fred.
Oh, dear. Fred must be in Minnesota in winter:>)
No, Really
“You crack me up,”
Said Literal Fred.
Never knowing
Why his nose bled…
By Donna JT Smith
Sorry! Had to give it one more go!
Poor Fred.
Oh, dear. Fred must be in Minnesota in winter:>)
Amazing how you took a nasty, peeling sunburn and turned it into graceful “jellyfish ribbons.”
From a giant nose,
a giant sneeze
spreading droplets
and a breeze.
Yes, the sneeze! Spreading those droplets from a giant nose! Yuck!
Yes!
This makes me picture this nose over Whoville, and how its sneeze would produce a whole catastrophic weather system there:>)
Amazing how you took a nasty, peeling sunburn and turned it into graceful “jellyfish ribbons.”
From a giant nose,
a giant sneeze
spreading droplets
and a breeze.
Yes, the sneeze! Spreading those droplets from a giant nose! Yuck!
Yes!
This makes me picture this nose over Whoville, and how its sneeze would produce a whole catastrophic weather system there:>)
Laura, the picture makes me think of the worry a granddaughter experienced during a visit to the Petrified Forest, expressing concern for her outcome.
Giant Sentry
Hollow eyes, nostrils
see all, smell all;
curfew for visitors
enforced at nightfall.
Easy-peasy!
Love all those “all” sounds–hollow, all, nightfall–lovely!
Laura, the picture makes me think of the worry a granddaughter experienced during a visit to the Petrified Forest, expressing concern for her outcome.
Giant Sentry
Hollow eyes, nostrils
see all, smell all;
curfew for visitors
enforced at nightfall.
Easy-peasy!
Love all those “all” sounds–hollow, all, nightfall–lovely!
Thunder grows, wind blows
Fear shows, the storm rose
From the horrible nose-
ah-CHOO!
gross…
I must be rested after my company…Amelia’s poem was the prompt for this:
Who knew?
Sky bowler
sneezed
Causing thunder and
breeze…
Cleanup in aisle 7,
please!
Donna, you are on a roll today and I love all of them.
Eeeeuwwww! Love that ending!
Absolutely adorable!
Ha! That anti-climactic ending is great!
Thunder grows, wind blows
Fear shows, the storm rose
From the horrible nose-
ah-CHOO!
gross…
I must be rested after my company…Amelia’s poem was the prompt for this:
Who knew?
Sky bowler
sneezed
Causing thunder and
breeze…
Cleanup in aisle 7,
please!
Donna, you are on a roll today and I love all of them.
Eeeeuwwww! Love that ending!
Absolutely adorable!
Ha! That anti-climactic ending is great!
Two caves
to explore,
but why does stone
moan?
Must be wind.
Let?s go in.
?Kate Coombs
Cute. No danger of having to deal with water!
Love that moaning stone. And this makes me feel like Nancy Drew, getting ready to solve a mystery…
Two caves
to explore,
but why does stone
moan?
Must be wind.
Let?s go in.
?Kate Coombs
Cute. No danger of having to deal with water!
Love that moaning stone. And this makes me feel like Nancy Drew, getting ready to solve a mystery…
I’ve been so busy with my book release that I haven’t been participating in 15 words…even though I miss it. But when this landed in my Inbox I couldn’t help but be nosy. And then when I read the poems today, they sent me off and running (sort of like a nose 🙂 ).
So many fun ones today. And I have to admit…thinking of jellyfish ribbons is sort of gross in the coolest way. It’s the perfect description of peeling lips! Nice!
I have two.
Stop-n-Smell
The bigger the nose
the sweeter the rose.
Penny Parker Klostermann 2015
Hire Us-We Won’t Blow the Case
We’re nostrils from the nosiest nose?
We sniff out booglars.
We stop them.
We’re pros.
Penny Parker Klostermann 2015
I love the word booglars. Thanks Penny, is that in a book?
It’s not a book, Martha. Just some fun wordplay 😀
“booglars” — Oh, no! Glad you stopped by, Penny! Hope all is going wonderfully with your launch!
will the book bi in stores is it poems ?
your poems are fun
I’ve been so busy with my book release that I haven’t been participating in 15 words…even though I miss it. But when this landed in my Inbox I couldn’t help but be nosy. And then when I read the poems today, they sent me off and running (sort of like a nose 🙂 ).
So many fun ones today. And I have to admit…thinking of jellyfish ribbons is sort of gross in the coolest way. It’s the perfect description of peeling lips! Nice!
I have two.
Stop-n-Smell
The bigger the nose
the sweeter the rose.
Penny Parker Klostermann 2015
Hire Us-We Won’t Blow the Case
We’re nostrils from the nosiest nose?
We sniff out booglars.
We stop them.
We’re pros.
Penny Parker Klostermann 2015
I love the word booglars. Thanks Penny, is that in a book?
It’s not a book, Martha. Just some fun wordplay 😀
“booglars” — Oh, no! Glad you stopped by, Penny! Hope all is going wonderfully with your launch!
will the book bi in stores is it poems ?
your poems are fun
This picture makes me think of caves and how
a spelunker might be tempted to enter.
A Spelunker’s Nightmare
Help! I’m trapped!
I can’t get free.
I hope that someone
rescues me.
Spelunking always sounds cool, but then when we occasionally visit caves and hear the guides talk about how they were discovered, explored, crawled through in tiny spaces, etc., I think, “Eh. Maybe not.” :>)
how true makes me this of the people tripped in the ice caves this past winter byt they wear worn not to go in them wonderful lesson in this poem
This picture makes me think of caves and how
a spelunker might be tempted to enter.
A Spelunker’s Nightmare
Help! I’m trapped!
I can’t get free.
I hope that someone
rescues me.
Spelunking always sounds cool, but then when we occasionally visit caves and hear the guides talk about how they were discovered, explored, crawled through in tiny spaces, etc., I think, “Eh. Maybe not.” :>)
how true makes me this of the people tripped in the ice caves this past winter byt they wear worn not to go in them wonderful lesson in this poem
It’s my daughter’s birthday today, and I baked blueberry muffins (that I’m sure that nose could detect across the miles…)
No(se) Surprise
breakfast baking
scrumptious smell
berry muffins?
(nose can tell.)
Nice title, Buffy–and happy bday to your daughter. Your poem made me hungry!
how wonderful 🙂
It’s my daughter’s birthday today, and I baked blueberry muffins (that I’m sure that nose could detect across the miles…)
No(se) Surprise
breakfast baking
scrumptious smell
berry muffins?
(nose can tell.)
Nice title, Buffy–and happy bday to your daughter. Your poem made me hungry!
how wonderful 🙂
earth quacks
downy blizzards
bellowing echoing
scattering running
A Chou A Chou
million feathery
germs sailing
Poem By Jessica Bigi
Eeeewwwww! Both disgusting and beautiful at the same time!
earth quacks
downy blizzards
bellowing echoing
scattering running
A Chou A Chou
million feathery
germs sailing
Poem By Jessica Bigi
Eeeewwwww! Both disgusting and beautiful at the same time!