Tag: photopoetry

Iron Maiden [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 lovely lady was along the Blackwater Basin near the flat we stayed in in Canary Wharf in London. I wish I could’ve

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Aphrodite's Rock in Cyprus

Aphrodite’s Rock [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.  One thing we did while visiting our daughter in Cyprus was to to a few different beaches. The (Mediterranean Sea) water was still

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Cereal

Cereal? [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 feel so lucky to have visited a couple of non-English-speaking countries. It really opens my perspective. One of the adventures is grocery

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Tombs of the Kings

Climbing Out [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.  Thank you for being such an active and kind community while I was out of town–out of the country! We were visiting our

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Cow

Cow [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’m still off the grid, so once again, I will not be able to comment. I’m hoping you guys will take it and

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Forget charts and rules [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’m largely off the grid this week and next, so I won’t be able to comment on your poems. I hope you’ll still

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Annabelle with C-3PO and R2-D2

In a Salt Shaker Far, Far Away [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.  My older daughter Annabelle is moving to Wisconsin. I am going to miss her funny, loud, energetic, dramatic self SO much! One thing

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Blur

Blur [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.  Sometimes I think I have more accidental images on my phone than I do intentional ones! This image makes me think of several

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Valleyfair Extreme Swing -- nope

Extreme Swing and Day 5: The pause at the top

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 a photo from last summer: I like roller coasters, but not things like this. So I wrote poems while Randy and Maddie

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Snowpeople [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 hope you’re not offended that I’m still using snow-related photo prompts, but you know March and April are the snowiest months here

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