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Atlatl [15 Words or Less]

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. If you tried to visit last week, or did visit in the brief window that the post was live, I apologize! My technology

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Dragonfly Captured! [15 Words or Less]

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.  This is a close-up of a dragonfly on one of the herons in La Crosse, WI. This image makes me think of several

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Double Vision [15 Words or Less]

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.  I took this pic over the summer when Randy and I were getting new glasses. The optometrist was measuring…something to do with Randy’s

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Is This Just Fantasy? [15 Words or Less]

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.  Okay, I try not to be too repetitive with images, but everyone had such fun with the chalk art photo a couple of

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Vacuum Sphere

Wind Tunnel [15 Words or Less]

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.  Here’s Randy in front of a dome near our old home. It’s used to create a wind tunnel for fluid dynamics testing. We

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Chalk Art Toys

Toys Rise Up! [15 Words or Less]

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.    We went to the Maple Grove Chalk Art Festival again this summer, and we were amazed as usual. The art pieces getting

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Jeweled Fish

Jeweled Fish [15 Words or Less]

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.  Happy first week of school for all your northern teachers! While visiting my older daughter in La Crosse, WI, over the summer, I

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Paddle Boat [15 Words or Less]

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.  Okay, one last (this one a rare unfiltered one) photo from Cyprus. On our first full day there, Maddie took us to Cavo

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Bicycles

Bikes at a Salt Lake [15 Words or Less]

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.   Here’s another pic from our trip to Cyprus. Larnaca has a couple of salt lakes. They’re near the coast, and from the airplane,

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Letters Sculpture

Foreign Letters [15 Words or Less]

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.  Another pic from our trip to Cyprus. This is from some kind of sculpture or monument, and I think it was in Nicosia,

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