Tag: photopoetry

Prickly [15 words or less]

Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here are some Velcro?balls we’re throwing at targets all this week at a Young Authors Conference. I’m sharing the poetry activity here next week, so if you’re curious, stay tuned. Meanwhile, here are three things

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Can Top [15 words or less]

Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I just realized I still had this?pic from Vegas. It is just a little thingamajig that was on the floor of the High Roller observation wheel we rode in. I was intrigued by it. Here

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Tree [15 words or less]

Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! One last pic from Vegas! Here are?3 things this photo makes me think of: 1)?the evil trees in various tales, like Wizard of Oz 2)?bonsai trees 3) blown glass–I love individual pieces, but when I

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Globes [15 words or less]

Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Here’s another pic from my trip to Las Vegas recently. Here are?3 things this photo makes me think of: 1)?SCUBA diving and the bubbles that float up 2)?blowing bubbles at a wedding 3) tiny fish

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Courage [15 words or less]

? Photo: Laura Salas National Poetry Month is over, and I had so much fun with riddle-ku! Thank you for all of you who stopped by to read, comment, or share these poems with kids. I really appreciate it! Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines

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Riddle-Ku! [slurp-burp]

  Riddle-Ku of the Day Suck up! Make me a mini milk vacuum cleaner Sip soda?Slurp?Burp! –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1:     HINT 2:   ?   .aLL Photos by Laura Purdie Salas TITLE (AND ANSWER): STRAW   [Educators, please click here to see a

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Riddle-Ku! [drift down]

  Riddle-Ku of the Day Alone, I drift down With friends, I lift, high and swift I make robins fly  –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1:   HINT 2:     .aLL Photos by Laura Purdie Salas TITLE (AND ANSWER): FEATHER   [Educators, please click here to

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Riddle-Ku! [merry-go-round]

  Riddle-Ku of the Day This merry-go-round spins upside down: I’m singing the room full of breeze ? –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1:   HINT 2:     . TITLE (AND ANSWER): CEILING FAN   [Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire

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Ribs [15 words or less]

? Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! I’ve been taking pictures lately for my National Poetry Month Riddle-ku feature, and here’s one of my rejects!?Here are?3 things this photo makes me think of: 1) a tree in winter 2) an x‑ray

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Slow Jets [15 words or less]

Photo: Laura Salas Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! For Christmas, we gave our nephew a glow in the dark ant farm, and the ants finally arrived last month during a “warm spell” (aka above freezing). Nifty!?Here are?3 things this photo makes me think

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