[15 Words or Less Poems] Sea Serpent

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Photo: Laura Purdie Salas

Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)!

We walked around The Atlantis resort in the Bahamas recently, and I loved all the fantastic ocean details. This is a sculptural element on a handrail. Here’s what it makes me think of:

1) Medusa
2) Smaug (saw The Hobbit recently, too:>)
3) Those “Hang in there!” posters from the 80s with the cute kitten gripping a rope for dear life.

And here’s my poem first draft:

Under Currents
Sleek fangs send poison
rolling like tide,
flowing in
and out.
Shore
Sea
Shore

–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved

What do you think of when you look at this picture? Take any quick idea and jot down a 15 Words or Less poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme or describe this picture. It’s just about whatever you think of when you look at it.