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.
Thanks for making time to join our community during what is a very busy holiday week for many!
One last photo from Houston. This is a gizmo over a shop or restaurant that I walked by on my way to the Convention Center.
This image makes me think of several things:
- the going-a-million-different-directions feeling of the end of the year
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting video
- social media
It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS! (Title doesn’t count toward word count.)
I have family visiting this week and next. I will do my best to comment on poems, but it could be that I only get to click Like to let you know I did read it. But I will read and enjoy each one, as I always do!
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What a wonderful image and your poem is perfectly presented on that fabulous scratchy scratch paper! I love the energy and inherent optimism of your final line. Wishing you and your family all the best in 2019.
Here’s my effort, influenced by a sudden, recent loss:
Life Clock
magnificent, intricate system
each whirligig
and curlicue
mysteriously synchronized
in rhythmic beat
…
until it’s not
©Molly Hogan, 2018
Yeah! “Until it’s not.…”
Nice take, Molly. Wishing you and your family a sweetly synchronized new year!
Thanks, Donna! Love the idea of a “sweetly synchronized new year!” Wishing you one as well.
a well oiled machine…until. story of my life! great short„ Molly
Oh, Molly, I’m so sorry for your loss. I love this celebration and reminder. Life IS magnificent. And short. Hugs to you.
So sorry for your loss. Lovely poem.
turn,
twist
whiz
click
what future?
what fortune?
click
whiz
twist
turn
What a reminder. I remember one of these fortune-teller machines on the boardwalk at Daytona Beach when I was a kid. I’ve seen a couple elsewhere throughout my life, and for some reason they always bring back Daytona Beach. I love your reversal/repetition. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Poets! My first comment disappeared into space. Sorry if it shows up again later. I tried to remember what I wrote.…but this version is different. Better, I’m sure! I wish all of you a wonderful holiday time full of love.
whir
twist
turn
spin
fortell future
future begins
spin
turn
twist
whir
Your first one had to be approved, and I did that before seeing you wrote again. Sorry! Love your attitude, though, about just recreating it and celebrating the differences, if there are any:>)
I love all these active verbs!
Wow! That is some awesome notepaper!
Wishing you great days in this new year, Laura!
This looked like a Seuss Christmas tree to me.…
All New
Pack up the tree
All tinseled and gizmoed
Unroll ‘19
With stories yet untold.
By Donna JT Smith
Happy New Year all!
I’m with ya.…let’s get on with it!
You’re right–it does! I love this–my holidays have been great. And we got snow last night for our Florida visitors! Not enough, but some, at lease. But after my daughter and her boyfriend visit this weekend, I will be so ready to pack up 2018 and unroll 2019. Whee!
Looking forward to those “stories yet to be told!”
BIRTH OF AN INVENTOR
Directions. Who needs them-
’cause I build whatever.
And every time,
Dad says “How clever!”
love this!
So clever indeed! Love this!
This could be a delightful beginning to a rhyming picture book!
Good morning to all; sending wishes for a healthy and happy 2019. Gizmo is a perfect title Laura and your colorful verse permits us to make what we can of it.
Mish-Mash
Nuts, bolts
toucan’s beak
perching vultures
Christmas socks
peacock feathers:
blocks
for patchwork quilt.
I love how you’ve mosh-mashed all these firm objects into a soft quilt.
Thank you Jean. Somehow I lost a day yesterday, so I’ll take this opportunity to show appreciation for all of the participants in Thursday’s 15 WOL. Now back to my book and “soft quilt.”
Raw material
discarded as useless junk
Reimagined art
Margaret Simon
the best kind!
Our minds went in the same direction today, Margaret!
We just went to an opening at a gallery not long ago, and the artist uses other’s trash to create his art. It was fascinating!
poem By Jessica Bigi
Under our Christmas Tree
teas
dad’s golf clubs
bikes
sister got her nails done
coffer maker
tools
mom’s gold bracelet
Santa’s monsters bills
clamed out of boxes
a doll for me
I’m afraid I’m a 15-word-or-less-hyphenating cheater today! Oh well.… I have admired the fork/spoon/screws-and-bolts sculptures that keep popping up at local crafts fair, and that’s what your photo reminded me of. Wishing all a happy new year!
Junk-Drawer Sculpture
Broken fork
rusted spoon
jammed propeller
popped balloon
twist-and-turn
bolt-and-screw
crafting old
into new!
Love this!
great one, Buffy!
Laura this picture is so much fun but I’m looking at it on my phone today and can’t tell which way is up or down lol. So I guess I’m having a hard time choosing what to make of it! Great poem today and I love your new paper! When I saw all the metal and gears my mind was drawn to Steampunk. Happy New Year to you and your family!
Steampunk Traveler
A clockwork machine:
metal and feathers,
Propels me through time
On a path less traveled.
Art Project
by Dianne Moritz
A little of this,
A little of that.
Scraps, yarn, glue…
My collage cat!
Here’s my first try at writing a poem 15 words or less: https://trinarrative.blogspot.com/2018/12/haiku-day-december-challenge-27.html