Welcome back to This Photo Wants to be a Poem, a low stress way to wake up your creativity by writing and sharing a short poem. Please leave your poem in the comments and encourage other writers by writing comments on other poems. We are not looking for brilliance here, just a playful way to be writers together.
This photo seems to want to be a whole story. Who was here? What was he or she doing? Could it be an artist’s still life?
Buried Treasure
With shovel and ax.
Margaret Simon, draft
we poke and dig
while gold lies
in the search.
Reflections on the Teche 
Oh Margaret, I LOVE LOVE LOVE “This Photo Wants to Be a Poem”! Thank you for sharing these and always for sharing your own poetry. It makes my heart smile.
And thank you to Molly Hogan for the photo!
Buried Treasure (a variation)
No one watching
no one sees
What I’m doing
here with these
Salt on my tongue
wind in my hair
I furtively bury
my TP there.
(you said “playful” …)
Ha! Perfect!
Just home from a looooooong driving trip. I saw your prompt early this morning but couldn’t work on it in the van…with the teens…which was perfect because we had a lovely day!
Margaret, I like how the journey is the treasure message of your poem. It influenced my words, for sure!
Fran, your humor cracks me up. Oh, the treasured roll of TP!
How close my treasure?
a swing of the pic?
shovel of sand?
Long-arm pass
on the beach
where we met
walking now
hand in hand.
Late, but I kept thinking about this picture.
I’ve abandoned everything,
everything, I tell you –
even the treasure
I worked to unbury –
for a chance at the sea.
I love the repetition of everything which creates the urgency to get into the sea. Thanks for coming back.