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. I have missed you guys a lot on all these various weeks I haven’t been home to comment!
Can you tell what this is?
This image makes me think of several things:
- a strawberry taking a bath
- the song, Splish-Splash, I Was Taking a Bath
- my fizzy orange bath bomb
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.)
26 Responses
Oh, those dreaming volcanoes! I hope they sleep til next winter.
One little lime
one little squeeze
add a blueberry
strawberry
cherry–
One little
lemonadeP L E A S E !
This is great, Linda! We simultaneously submitted a sweet summertime drink inspired poem!
Linda, I like the way you give credit to all of the ingredients. Sounds cool, looks cool!
I’m listening to an audiobook right now called The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (or something like that). Fascinating. He just finished the description of this huge volcanic period that caused mass extinction at the end of the Triassic Period. Our eruptions today are so minimal compared to that! (Thankfully.) I like your lemonade chant! I can see kids lined up at the counter repeating it:>)
I love your poem, Laura! The POV is so intriguing; why shouldn’t volcanoes dream? And you expressed that dream so visually succinctly!
Yum, Yum
Fruity colors
plop, slop, slur
spin into
sweet rainbow blur –
Summertime smoothie, that’s for sure!
What a fun poem! I like “slur” and “rainbow blur”.
Yum Yum it is Suzanne.
Really fun alliteration and verb choices, Suzanne!
I see the volcano rising- oh, those unsuspecting fruit! Great poem, Laura.
Fruity Teens
Splash went Berry,
also Cherry.
Lemon and Peach
gave a screech.
Plum crazy, each.
Ooh, I really like your ending, Cindy!
Good morning all. Laura, your verse is magical. My guess would be beverage dispensers in a coffee shop. BUNN and warning labels along with what looks like “fruit” in water or lemonade are first prompts. I also imagine a spool of thread atop the BUNN appliance in the bottom right corner. How silly is that? So many goodies, so few words!
We Aim to Please
Coffee
cold quaffs
your choice;
loose button fell off?
threaded needle
furnished of course!
I always enjoy hearing what we all see in the various photos. Yep, it was a drink or slushy dispenser in a mall snackplace. How funny that you worked that thread into your poem–a coffee shop that has EVERYthing you need:>)
As time goes by,
fruit dissolves
becoming juice
with life giving
water.
I love the idea of fruit dissolving. So much gentler than us squeezing the heck out of it! A lovely, reassuring poem!
Life giving for sure. Thanks Margaret.
Your poem reminds me of the book “An Island Grows”–one of my favorites! I took a more eight-legged approach.
Spider Time
Skitter, scurry
up the wall,
on the ceiling,
down the hall,
in the shower
spiders crawl.
Buffy, I saw spiders also.
I ADORE that book. It was one of the mentor texts that inspired my A LEAF CAN BE… And, eeeeeeewwwww! I just got the creepy crawlies from your poem, so I guess that’s…good?
Well Laura you had me stumped with this image viewed on my phone, and I decided to plow ahead with what I could make out. In the lower right I saw a dragon head. Your poem is delightful! Here’s mine…
Beware of dragon drip doldrums…
But delight in their
color and texture
which dandily
distracts.
Ha! I love the delectable dangerous alliteration ;>)
PINK LEMONADE
by Dianne Moritz
Lemon, raspberry
sour, sweet
Mixed together
perfect treat!
Just came in, and it’s hot outside–your poem is delicious!
thanks, Laurie.
do people call you that? if not, I’m sorry.
translucent bent
glass
for
tropical baths;
relaxation abounds
in summertime
sounds.
Ah, it’s like a spa/mini-meditation. Love the echo/near rhyme in glass/baths and rhyme of abounds/sounds. Welcome, Craig! Happy to have you hear–Randy had a great time catching up with you yesterday!