15 Words or Less Poems: In or Out?

 

 

Last night, my family went to watch my nephew play basketball. He's in third grade, and they play in an elementary school gym. We all sat crunched up along the gym walls, trying to keep our legs tucked under us so they weren't on the court! The whole game was full of hold-your-breath moments, where the ball is teetering back and forth between sliding in for points or bouncing off the rim.

The picture makes me think of the amount of praying a kid can do in the two seconds between a ball leaving his hands and that ball either making or not making a basket. It also made me think of the questions we ask that we're then afraid to hear the answers to. And it makes me think of an ugly brown and yellow owl that I macramed as a teenager in a YMCA crafts class (and my sweet older sister who hung it in her house anyway!).

Now, what does this image make YOU think of?

Take one of your answers to that question and write a quick 15 words or less poem and leave it in the comments below. Have fun! Click here for guidelines if you've never played before. Just use the image as a jumping off point--your poem doesn't have to describe this picture!