Tag: 15 Words or Less Poems

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I did a young authors conference in Winona, MN, recently, and snapped this pic there. Here’s what it makes me think of. 1)?You are what you eat 2) A swan with feathers made of

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I was driving home from a school visit in outstate Minnesota when this hay-filled truck passed by. Took a few pix without looking, and this one came out ok.?Here’s what?this picture?makes me think of:

  Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Oh, my funny brother-in-law and sister-in-law. When we went to their house for games shortly after Easter, they stashed this Easter decoration in the tub so that I almost had a heart attack

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I love this sculpture?inside a building in downtown Minneapolis. I don’t usually like art of people, but abstractions like this are fun. It makes me think of: 1) Decorated skulls and bones in Europe

Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Last week’s photo: That was a set of plastic Easter eggs, opened, and placed on top of my open laptop. We recently went to a Gordon Lightfoot concert at the State Theatre in downtown

  Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I think you’ll know right away what this is, but I’m not going to say in case anyone doesn’t know. It’s fun to write poems inspired by an ambiguous image! Here’s what this

  Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I took this pic at a winterguard show (the activity color guards’do over the winter, performing with flags, rifles, sabers, and other props) a few weeks ago. Here’s what it makes me think

  Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here’s a shot from outside The Luxor in Las Vegas, from my NCTE trip. This sphinx makes me think of: 1) Riddles, of course! 2) Having a root canal (something about that structure

It’s March Madness Poetry time and the Sweet Sixteen poem matchups should be live soon. Visit, read, and vote:>)? Photo: Laura Purdie Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I took this picture of a quirky-looking fruit, though I can’t remember where I took

It’s March Madness Poetry time! Voting is now live on Round 1 Poems. My matchup is here–my pufferfish goes up against Walt Disney. I hope you’ll go check both poems out and vote for your favorite…and then browse through all the other match-ups, too!   Photo: Screen capture from An