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.
When I was at the Minnesota Children’s Book Festival back in…September? October?–anyway, when I was there, I loved this cool umbrella chandelier inside the Anderson Center. This image makes me think of several things:
- How hard it is to balance things
- What if instead of blocking things, we welcomed them in?
- Wouldn’t it be weird to use an umbrella as a lifeboat?
And here’s my first draft. I wanted to kind of zoom in from the epicness of the storm to one tiny thing.
It’s your turn! Have fun and stick to 15 WORDS OR LESS! (Title doesn’t count toward word count.)
Please note: I’m at NCTE–whee! But that means I won’t be able to comment on poems this week. Hope you still have fun writing them!
15 Responses
Sparks leap
From wick to wick
Lighting up the rain
In a flaming trapeze act
Wonderful energy and action in your images.
I love the first 3 lines seams magical
What a lovey picture in the mind- bluebirds splashing in water. I love your first two lines with their alliteration.
PROPER HYGIENE
Message to the monster
underneath my bed:
Clip your fingernails.
Why?
Because my mother said!
My first thought was of claws and a monster. I like where you went with your hygiene idea.
this would be wonderful as a short story for a magazine
What an interesting picture with the opposite suggestions of water and fire. Your happy bluebirds made me smile, Laura.
The rain came.
We all had doubt
when it would stop -
then came the drought.
Isn’t that the way it works!
so true in life
Laura I love the last 3 lines of your poem
Poem By Jessica Bigi
Whale- Birds
Aquamarine tails
Splashing sky-oceans
Turquoise-kits streaming
March’s Windy lanterns
I love how whimsical this is!
Poem By Jessica Bigi
Honokaa
salted broth
unleavened bread
scarves cards fancy beads
a candle lite each day
In remembrance and honor
poem By Jessica Bigi
Hanukkah
salted broth
unleavened bread
scarves cards fancy beads
a candle light each day
In remembrance
I really love this poem too- wonderful tone and message in so few words!
Thank You