This week’s Poetry Friday entry are the terrific poems from yesterday photopoetry of 15 words or less. Here was the picture:

And here are the poems.

Clinging precariously
Dancing in the sunshine
One big wind could mean the end
Such tragedy
~Anne McKenna

Like peas in a pod
They followed Bob
They, too, loved the magic of grass

~slatts

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One fine thread,
that’s all,
but it’s enough,
my friend
across space, across time.

~Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife

Fringe on the curtain,
swaying in the breeze.
Wait, those are lacewings
traveling by trapeze.

~Cindyb

Eggs waiting
to be hatched
to live
to kill
to love
to lay
to die

~Christine

BLIND DATE

"Me…Me…Me…"

She gazes
at the pendant
lighting imagining
him hanging
by his nose.

~Diane Mayr

Green Invasion
We disguise our ship
as earth-grass,
extending traps. Soon
we will capture aphid-beings
to interrogate.

~Kate Coombs

Swinging in a warm breeze
Faster
Higher
Stretching toward the sunshine
Suspended paradise

~Celeste Ribbins

Tiny Jewels

tiny jewels
don’t be fooled
hanging free
disguised as peas
waiting for their enemies.
~Sue Douglass Fliess

Safekeeping
Mother Nature
hangs lacewing eggs
like my mom
tied mitts on a string

~Violet Nesdoly
(http://line-upon-line.blogspot.com)

Deep into a fairy world of green
sliding
swinging
laughing
playing
loving
life.

~Linda Covella

Swamp plants upended,
cling to milkweed shores,
reaching with poised
buds to waiting water: home.

~Brenda Stokes
www.brendastokes.com

Fragile.
Delicate.
Wonderous.
Life hangs on
by a thread
in spite of us.

Tantinizingly Tenacious

~stu pidasso

How many greens
can be found-
values criss-cross
on the ground,
summer soup
of color.

~Diane M. Davis

Laura Salas, akalaurasalas  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. Do you know what they are? This is from my garden and I was so excited to find them on the milkweed plants today. They are lacewing eggs. Soon they will hatch and devour the legions of aphids that are waiting for them all over the plant.

What does this make you think of?

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.

This week’s Poetry Friday entry are the terrific poems from yesterday photopoetry of 15 words or less. Here was the picture:

And here are the poems
Tethered Lives
cornflakes and scales
hay bales
rabbit trails
bone rails -

we live in chains.

— Allen Taylor
@WorldClassPoet

Don’t know what it’s for
But over by the door
Hole there in the floor

— slatts

Break through.
Peer
Into the Darkness.
Or climb in
And find out what’s really there.

— Becky Levine

Trust, Adventure, Imagination
No one knows
what’s inside a hole,
emptiness
or a world of
jabberwockies
and hobbits.

— Diane M. Davis

CRAZY ARITHMETIC

one minuscule crack
+
one infinitesimal drop of moisture
+
one process of oxidization
=
one unexpected delight

— Diane Mayr

Sunburn
Dry peeling skin
made him groan
low and eerie
like midnight’s moan.

— Cindyb

Aim for the next
level–
Ready?
Set?
Leap!

— Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife

If Willy Loman Had a Sex Change
Death of a Suburban Mother and Saleswoman, circa 1950s

That iron did
me no good
I threw it
down

Done

To hell with
you

— Pamela Ross

Never listen to sixth grade kids -

"Put your nose here,"
they said.

Sucked in!

— Susan Stephenson

Fix – now please
For you never know
how big I will become
Maybe eternal ugliness

—  Anne McKenna

This week’s Poetry Friday entry are the terrific poems from yesterday photopoetry of 15 words or less. Here was the picture:

And here are the poems!
 

Lolipop
of lint and life
waits for wind
to disseminate
procreation.

~~~ Diane M. Davis

Shared Desire
Gray hair, untamed,
just like mine.
We hope for a breeze
at the clothesline.

~~~ Cindy Breedlove

This is proof–
even a flower
can have
a bad hair day.

~~~ Cynthia Cotten

I
am
so
beautiful.

Why do you
revile me,
repulse me?

~~~ mlyearofreading

A DANDY PLAN

She fastens
her children
to parachutes
preparing them
for an inconspicuous
invasion of
cultivated lands.

~~~  Diane Mayr

Helen meant to blow,
but instead she inhaled.
Then she spat and coughed.

~~~ jennifer-d-g

Sunships of wonder
waiting to ride
the breeze,
to create their own worlds.

~~~ Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife

together we grew
then the winds came
scattering us afar
it’s time
to bloom apart.

~~~ melissa

Wishing to be 5 yrs old again.
With wisdom
to know how great 5 is.
~poof~

~~~ Amanda

Wish

A hundred tiny wisps of hope
Waiting to be sent into the world.

~~~ Sue Douglass Fliess

Just one big blow
Fly away fairies
Bring back wishes
of hope,
happiness and love

~~~ Anne Mckenna

Sphinx Sperm?
Soft, white and tiny
dandelion seeds twirl gently on
a mythical breeze.

~~~ John Mutford
 

This week’s Poetry Friday entry are the terrific poems from yesterday photopoetry of 15 words or less. Here was the picture:

And here are the poems!

Watch your step
you never know where they go
way down
into depths of despair
– Anne McKenna

Watch Your Back
Planks remain bare

Poisonous vines
don’t tread visible paths

They climb directly
into your heart

–Laura Purdie Salas

Conquering
Breath catching
Heart palpitating,
searching depths
Mastering fear,
Take a step!
been afraid too long

– melissa

I’m so glad
I’m not Jimmy Stewart
In that movie
VERTIGO
Instead,
Here I go!

– slatts

The view–spectacular!
But now….

Spinning, spiraling….

Where’s Jimmy Stewart
when you need him?

– Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife

Round
and round
redwood tight-gripped
I wish
life
had so graceful
a bannister.

– sartorias
 

Wasn’t sure
where I was headed.
Pick a card,any card.
Life’s a gamble.

–  Martha Calderaro

Round and round
One step down.
Round and round
Two steps down.
All around. Ground.
– Louise Henriksen

July 9 Post – 15 word poem
Cycles, circles go around,
Until the way of dusty death and ground.

– G Grenley

Each day
fans out
from Summer
separate
but connected
in their uniformity
of season.

– Diane M. Davis

Steps too narrow.
Feet too long.
Thanks–
I think I’ll stay
up here.

– Cynthia Cotten

Board

Board, so bored,
with the same steps.
Time to stop looking back and go up.

– Sue Douglass Fliess

The Board Monster
Board monster’s here.
Couldn’t nail him down.
It spins wooden paddles
spanking kids in town.

– Joyce Lansky

Here I stand at the top of the stairs
Wondering which way to go.

– Barbara Van Deusen

Jama has the round-up of all the Poetry Friday posts today!
 

the body falls
into an upturned truth
its been waiting to meet
all its life

– Shutta Crumm

Here is the picture I posted yesterday, filling in for the lovely   while she is traveling for school visits.

And here are the poems.

NO ESCAPE
My mind feels clouded,
A prisoner of life,
Will I ever escape?
Who knows!!

– Anne McKenna

Honeycomb,
mass of hexagonal
wax, a lattice of
windows, a good day’s
work won

–Kristy Dempsey

Behind an ocean of cool
concrete waves
I sigh
and hide
from summer’s
punishing heat.

–sister AE

O 2 C as A flI.
multiple images
parading bI.
Just like TV,
Seems 2 B
2 many 2 name
yet, all the same.

"Repetition".
stu pidasso
30April2009

Water whispers–
saplings sway–
glimpses of a world
just
out
of
reach.
I weep.

– dmayr wrote:

Hop, Bop, Bebop
Three young grandkids
hop, bop, bebop.
One tired Grandma
needs them to stop.

–Cindyb

Fish scales shimmer
across the sunny day;
only the dark
allows us to see.

– Kathy Q.

Nose pressed against the fence.
Eyes, too.
Toddler wants what’s greener
on the other side.

–Becky Levine

Puzzle pieces
placed upon
nature’s background.

–Marianne H. Nielsen

This was the picture I posted yesterday while filling in for laurasalas  on 15 Words or Less Photopoetry. What does this make you think of? Where do you think the keys are for all those locks? Does it make you smile?

Here are the poems people wrote as a result.

SHACKLED

I’m all locked up,
I don’t know why…
Better to ponder,
than sit and cry…

- Fred Higgins

PICKLOCK’S FINAL EXAM

From experience
one finds that
the key to
most locks
is not
using a key.

 - dmayr

LOCKED UP

In this room
feeling locked up
With no key
there’s no escape

- Linda Bozzo

Lockdown!

"They’re having a party.
Can I go?
Oh, don’t be so dramatic.
Just say no."

- Cindyb

First Warm Day of Spring

Lock a year
19 years
all clicked free
Key?
one canoe
you
and
six beers.

- Pat Schmatz

Passages

In and out.
Or not out?
Who comes?
Who doesn’t go?
Scattered.

- Becky Levine

My brain
Without coffee
Locked
In disarray

- Jeannine Garsee

Key to Her Heart

He searched for the key to her heart
Like so many others before him

- Rick Wainright

It must be time for poems of 15 words or less with laurasalas. You don’t have to be a poet, you just have to write the first 15 words that come into your head when you see her picture of the day.

Go on. You know you want to. (Yes, I did mine.)