Laura Salas 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.
Clinging precariously
Dancing in the sunshine
One big wind could mean the end
Such tragedy
– Anne McKenna
Nice one, Anne.
Like peas in a pod
They followed Bob
They, too, loved the magic of grass
~slatts
LOL about following Bob. hahaha! Thanks for the giggle.
Thanks for the giggle…
Before I read the explanation, I saw these little “peas” look like they were swinging through the jungle or something.
“like peas in a pod” just came first and the “la-ti-da” of the natural rhyme just came up with “Bob” as who they were following.
Just silly.
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One fine thread,
that’s all,
but it’s enough,
my friend
across space, across time.
Kathy Q.
wordsrmylife
It’s all it takes, isn’t it? Just one thread to connect us all.
Fringe on the curtain,
swaying in the breeze.
Wait, those are lacewings
traveling by trapeze.
Cindyb
Love the last line, Cindy!
Eggs waiting
to be hatched
to live
to kill
to love
to lay
to die
-Christine
Oh I do hope they get the chance to hatch!
Oh, I hope so too! Sorry that was such a negatively tinged poem – I was down yesterday and now that I reread that, it really doesn’t fit the photo.
But I loved reading the other ones!
BLIND DATE
“Me…Me…Me…”
She gazes
at the pendant
lighting imagining
him hanging
by his nose.
by Diane Mayr
Oh this made me giggle Diane. Hanging him by his nose indeed!
Green Invasion
We disguise our ship
as earth-grass,
extending traps. Soon
we will capture aphid-beings
to interrogate.
–Kate Coombs
Re: Green Invasion
Fabulous, Kate! Interrogate, chomp chomp!
Swinging in a warm breeze
Faster
Higher
Stretching toward the sunshine
Suspended paradise
Celeste Ribbins
Beautiful image, Celeste. Thank you for playing.
Tiny Jewels
by Sue Douglass Fliess
tiny jewels
don’t be fooled
hanging free
disguised as peas
waiting for their enemies.
Re: Tiny Jewels
hahaha…please, no enemies until they hatch.
Safekeeping
Mother Nature
hangs lacewing eggs
like my mom
tied mitts on a string
– Violet Nesdoly
(http://line-upon-line.blogspot.com)
Re: Safekeeping
Beautiful slice of life, Violet. Thank you.
Deep into a fairy world of green
sliding
swinging
laughing
playing
loving
life.
-Linda Covella
Love the “fairy world of green” Linda. Thanks for playing.
Swamp plants upended,
cling to milkweed shores,
reaching with poised
buds to waiting water: home.
–Brenda Stokes
http://www.brendastokes.com
I love this on so many levels, Brenda. It’s beautiful image and it sings when you say it. Thank you.
Fragile.
Delicate.
Wonderous.
Life hangs on
by a thread
in spite of us.
Tantinizingly Tenacious
by stu pidasso
30July2009
That last line really says it all, stu. Thanks.
NEVER MIND THE ATROCIOUS SPELLING RIDDLED THROUGHOUT MY SUBMISSION. DARN CAPSLOCK. Thanks, STB!
How many greens
can be found-
values criss-cross
on the ground,
summer soup
of color.
Diane M. Davis
Nice!
Wow, Diane, love “values criss-cross on the ground” the whole piece is quite lovely.
a word
Hope swings, a thread
life twists, turns
blown by wind
or a friend’s word
by Darlene M.Berg
a word
Hope swings, a thread
life twists, turns
blown by wind
or a friend’s word
by Darlene M.Berg