Love your poem!! Yeah, if only it were that easy . . .

March 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM tanita s. davis said...

Oh, hah! I'm never instantly inspired. Fortunately, Tricia/Miss Rumphius puts up the Monday poetry stretches and expects us to come back to them -- I give myself a week, and sometimes even then nothing happens.

There seem to be two poetry Fridays going on -- the other is at Anastasia Suen's, according to the Feb-April scheduled list at A Year of Reading. Boy, we had no idea how efficient Kelly was until she was gone...

March 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM MotherReader said...

You're right Tanita, it is Anastasia's day. I typed in Six Traits which is part of the blog link, but not the blog name. I've corrected it.

March 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM Wasn't that a great picture?! I wrote one for that cute puppy picture, too. Love your poem!

March 6, 2009 at 3:01 PM I think Laura's weekly inspiration is brilliant! Perhaps we can add 15 Words or less to list of recurring events on the Kidlitosphere website?

March 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM Your poem: so true, so true. Maybe if I had a better nose...

I've only done the 15 words challenge once, although I really like looking at the results. And I've taken up Tricia's challenge only a few times. Sometimes, the kick to get started is just what I need. Other times, I'm content to see what others do. What I love about PF is that there are no rules.

March 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM Mary Lee said...

I had a lot of success using the idea of a picture prompt for a poem of 15 words or less with my 4th graders last year. Or I guess I should more accurately say, my fourth graders had a lot of success... (greedy of me to claim it as my own...)

March 7, 2009 at 7:38 AM Cute photo too. I use Google Reader to alert me of new posts (not on my blog sidebar) but I always actually go to the blog. I feel if I am just reading the post that I lose the context that it's written in. I like looking at the whole picture of the post and blog. Otherwise it seems very disjointed to me. Like reading only part of a book or something.

March 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM Elaine Magliaro said...

A perfect little poem for that picture! What a great photograph.

March 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM Vivian said...

I love your poem! How true it is...

March 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM Cloudscome said...

I love your poem too. I try to do the challenges as often as I can. Sometimes it comes right to me but often I have to work on it for a couple days. That's where the discipline comes in. Sometimes it takes me so long I just give up, sad to say. I like the challenges with photos because that inspires me quickly.
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