Welcome to 15 Words or Less Poems Day! Are you ready to wake up your poetry brains with our weekly exercise (guidelines here)?
I was walking the track at my gym a few weeks ago, and looking out the window, I could see a big tractor-thingy (bulldozer?) removing snow off the roof of the library parking lot. It was windy, and the snow was blowing all over…
This image makes me think of:
- a pterodactyl feeding its young
- how clouds look so solid from the ground, but then you fly through them, and they’re just mist!
- an epic robot battle, with fog pumped in to the arena
And, here’s my first draft. I guess I have robots on the brain lately!
It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS! (Title doesn’t count toward word count)
37 Responses
MOTHER’S LOVE
Head bowed in shame,
filled with despair,
but someone is watching
and saying a prayer.
For some reason, the pose of the machine looked gentle to me too.
Nice idea — head bowing as if praying. I like that first line.
Aww, that is touching and sweet, Cindyb. Thank you.
Good job everyone. I have read all of the comments. Time won’t allow individual replies. I’ll just say goodnight to the Plowasaurus and wish everyone a pleasant evening.
darling dino
delicately dines
on dainty dwellings
despite
destructive dentition
I love all these “d’s.” This could be a tongue twister.
Delightful!
Divinely delicious!
Br-r‑r. What a creature! I love your name for it — Snowplowasaurus.
I used to live in Wisconsin. I remember snows like that.
Hungry
Snowplowasaurus always goes
for Minnesota’s heavy snows.
Plenty there to eat,
except in summer’s heat.
Cute idea and a fun rhyme.
I bet it does what I do- gain weight in winter and lose it in summer!
Fun! Poor snowplowasaurus. I feel its pain in summer (as I’m not a fan of hot weather). 😀
I really like the idea of a mother feeding her infant. Lots of snow around I’m sure. So much in fact that the powers that be have run out of repositories.
Snow Pantry
Fallen snow,
drifts
piles
scrapings
make for lack of space;
ocean or
flat rooftops?
Yes, snow mountains in parking lots last well into spring.
Love that, Martha! Those hard sounds in lines 4 and 5 make me hear the snowplow blade scritching! (No snow on ground here in Minnesota right now. Just brown and bare:>( )
Before the Snow Plow Rumbles…
Snow conquers city streets,
vanquishes gray and grime,
humbles the hubbub
with a triumphant
hush.
Ooh, humbles the hubbub–love that. And triumphant hush. Lovely, Buffy! Totally captures the new snow feel!
Triumphant hush- love that.
This has lots of iterations (and I love that word).
So. Done. It’s supposed to be quicker, but it took longer to use words the way I wanted to today.
I think I finally got it. At least by default, I got it, because it is here. Now.
His Strength
Weathered arm,
Bands of steel,
Laboring
In love
I can feel
Safe from harm.
This is lovely, Donna. So comforting…Those first two lines set such a scene!
I have a revenge fantasy about this one! Or maybe, to be nicer, a friendship? A blanket?
Snow plow is still.
In the night snow falls,
wrapping the silent plow
in white.
—Kate Coombs
I think revenge fantasy pretty much sums it up, Kate! Love it. Snow smothers plow.
Design Failures of the Contemporary Architect
Pitched
Roofs
too old fashioned
howled the modernists,
constructing roofs
flat and smug,
Forgetting snow.
Hehe–form and function. Love the sly humor, Nancy!
Love this. Utterly perfect, Nancy. I love the roofs are smug like the modernists 🙂
reading
every book
in the library
bulldozing
through
unknown worlds
whirlwinds of
knowledge
showers of
learning
poem by Jessica Bigi
Oh, Jessica, this captures my childhood EXACTLY! I love it!
Love the very short lines that bulldoze us through the poem, Jessica!
KI love everyone’s poems today
Woe is me
Cold and lonely
trapped in a cocoon
Of utter misery
Save me !
Anne McKenna
Awww, that is so sad! Love the cocoon of misery.
Went very literal…sort of 🙂
Extra cups of
tea on Thursdays–
Snowplow Day.
Librarians with backhoes
keep the books warm.
Librarians can do ANYTHING!
Hehe–I love the image of librarians with backhoes!
SNOW PLOW
Snow geysers
unleash sprays
of wintry shavings
onto the blizzard
banked yard.
© Charles Waters 2016 all rights reserved.
I love the idea of snow geysers–beautiful!