Laura Salas, aka
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laurasalas , is taking the month of July off from blogging. She asked if I would like to host 15 words or less photopoetry for the month and I said sure! This is no pressure, lots of fun. If you're not familiar with it, you can read the guidelines here. Here's this week's picture.
What does this make you think of? Are you going down or freezing at the top in fear?
If you'd like to play, just choose any topic this image makes come to your mind and write a quick 15 Words or Less poem. Your poem doesn't have to describe this photo. The picture is just a jumping-off point. Basically look at the picture and write a poem of 15 words or less inspired by the photo. Please add your byline to the poem so I can include it in the poetry Friday roundup.
Go on. You know you want to.
There are so many stories only you can tell.Tell them, please.
Who am I?I was born on the Cancer/Leo cusp and share a birthday with Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams. The similarities don't stop there as I can go from depressed to ecstatic without ever passing go. I feel scared most of the time though my friends call me brave and I find it easier to believe in my friends than to believe in my own abilities to make what I want out of my life.
Who am I? A wife, a mother, a daughter, and even, gulp, a grandmother.
Who am I? A writer who never gets tired of playing with words, even when the words are hard to find. A writer of books for children and articles for grown-ups and many things in-between.
Who am I? A motivational speaker, writing instructor, workshop leader and full-time follower of dreams.
Who am I? Read and find out.
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Comments
you never know where they go
way down
into depths of despair
- Anne McKenna
Poisonous vines
don't tread visible paths
They climb directly
into your heart
--Laura Purdie Salas
Thanks, Susan!
Edited at 2009-07-09 12:21 pm (UTC)
Off to ALA in 30 minutes. Yay!
Heart palpitating,
searching depths
Mastering fear,
Take a step!
been afraid too long
~melissa
I'm not Jimmy Stewart
In that movie
VERTIGO
Instead,
Here I go!
~slatts
I enjoy this poem form but never make it to the host site. But since My Friend is hosting it this month!
But now....
Spinning, spiraling....
Where's Jimmy Stewart
when you need him?
Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife
and round
redwood tight-gripped
I wish
life
had so graceful
a bannister.
where I was headed.
Pick a card,any card.
Life's a gamble.
By Martha Calderaro
Thanks, Susan!
One step down.
Round and round
Two steps down.
All around. Ground.
-Louise Henriksen
Until the way of dusty death and ground.
- G Grenley
fans out
from Summer
separate
but connected
in their uniformity
of season.
Feet too long.
Thanks--
I think I'll stay
up here.
Cynthia Cotten
Board, so bored,
with the same steps.
Time to stop looking back and go up.
Couldn't nail him down.
It spins wooden paddles
spanking kids in town.