• Home
  • Poetry Prompts
  • For Writers
  • Daily Poem-Subscribe! ✨
  • Teaching Tools
  • Free Stuff + BOOKS
  • Patron Love

Photo Prompts: Baby Face Photo Play 2

By Heather Eure 6 Comments

Baby_Face Photo Play

Thanks to our photographers and poets who participated in last week’s Baby Face Photo Prompts. We were inspired by the collection of photographs and poetry, steeped in back story. Along with a few snapshots, here’s a recent poem from Sharon we enjoyed:

Little one so tiny and new
We’ve been waiting just for you
And now that you’re with us, we want you to know
Little one… You’re home

There will be time for tears later on
So close your eyes now and sleep ‘til the dawn
Together we’ll travel, together we’ll grow
So Little one… Sleep on

In your heart God’s written a song
All about you and how you belong
And no one can sing it exactly like you
So little one… Sing on

Your on special dreams are waiting for you
Don’t let the world tell you dreams can’t come true
For you are the weaver of life’s tapestry
So little one… Weave on

Little one so tiny and new
We’ve been waiting just for you
And now that you’re with us, we want you to know
Little one
My little one
Sweet little one… You’re home

—by Sharon Riddell

Be sure to check out the rest of our favorite highlights from each participant on the Photo Play Pinterest board. And keep clicking and/or playing with words.

NOTE TO POETS: Looking for your Monday prompt? On Photo Play days, it’s right here. Choose a photo and use it to jump start a poem! Post it in the comment box. We’ll be reading.

Featured photos by S. Etole and Simply Darlene. Post by Heather Eure.

____________________

Sometimes we feature your poems in Every Day Poems, with your permission of course. Thanks for writing with us!

Browse more photo prompts
Browse Baby Poems
Browse more writing prompts

 

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Heather Eure
Heather Eure
Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
Heather Eure
Latest posts by Heather Eure (see all)
  • Form It: Little Lamb Poetry Prompt - March 26, 2018
  • Poetry Prompt: Misunderstood Lion - March 19, 2018
  • Animate: Lions & Lambs Poetry Prompt - March 12, 2018

Related

❤️✨ Sharing is caring

Filed Under: Baby Poems, Blog, Poems, poetry, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Comments

  1. Richard Maxson says

    May 19, 2014 at 9:05 am

    Great photos! And Sharon, this is a perfect lullaby.

    Reply
  2. SimplyDarlene says

    May 19, 2014 at 10:45 am

    I only have a few keepsakes from my babyhood so those little boots (the exact ones from the image) are a treasure!

    Somehow I ended up with my little sister’s pair too… probably because she’d never wear a pair of kickers these days. 😉

    Thanks for the prompt!

    Reply
  3. S. Etole says

    May 21, 2014 at 9:48 am

    Just happened across this this morning. Adding my thanks.

    Reply
  4. Richard Maxson says

    May 22, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    This is not a photograph of me, but suits the poem. I captured it from a composite You Tube
    http://tinyurl.com/ofm4nmk

    Of No One

    As children, it was real to us,
    the timing, length and hue.

    Once discovered we forgot to notice
    the changing shape
    going out ahead of us,
    as if to say—arms around each other—
    we are three.

    Over time it was only shade,
    cloudy days and ruined picnics,
    a slice across a silver moon.

    It was the dark mirror
    that confirmed us,
    even as we forgot to look
    along the avenues,
    living under a borrowed sun;

    perhaps when we are also grey.

    Tonight we say there is work to do,
    or a rough day to mend―

    through the window, the empty moon
    lays the ineffectual sunlight

    into this room of candles,
    where I write alone.

    My hand reaches for a glass
    and below a darkness
    on the table cowers close,
    as if it were afraid.

    Reply
  5. gassingon says

    March 3, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Baby face wore his boots
    until they hurt his feet
    so he kicked them off
    and walked around
    in his stocking feet…

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Baby, Baby Poetry Prompt: The Short Years | says:
    May 26, 2014 at 9:28 am

    […] to all who participated in last week’s prompt. Here’s a poem from Richard we enjoyed— flecked in the lament of […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Take How to Read a Poem

Get the Introduction, the Billy Collins poem, and Chapter 1

get the sample now

Welcome to Tweetspeak

New to Tweetspeak Poetry? Start here, in The Mischief Café. You're a regular? Check out our January Menu.

Keep the World Poetic

❤️

Welcome a little patron love, when you help keep the world thoughtful and poetic.

5 FREE POETRY PROMPTS

Get 5 FREE inbox poetry prompts from the popular book How to Write a Poem

Join the Poetry Club

Join the poetry club, when you become a subscriber to Every Day Poems ✨

The classic—Now a Graphic Novel!

"Stunning, heartbreaking, and relevant illustrations"

Callie Feyen, teacher

read a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper

Recent Comments

  • Katie on Generosity with Self: When You’re In The Wrong Story
  • Tania Runyan on Great Gatsby Fashion: Jay Gatsby Goes to Goodwill
  • Sandra Heska King on A Book of Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay Finds Its Way Home
  • A Book of Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay Finds Its Way Home | on Finding Edna and Winifred in the Antique Shop

Featured In

We're happy to have been featured in...

The Huffington Post

The Paris Review

The New York Observer

Tumblr Book News

Join Tweetspeak Poetry

Categories

Explore Work From Black Poets

Learn to Write Form Poems

How to Write an Acrostic

How to Write a Ballad

How to Write a Catalog Poem

How to Write a Ghazal

How to Write a Haiku

How to Write an Ode

How to Write a Pantoum

How to Write a Rondeau

How to Write a Sestina

How to Write a Sonnet

How to Write a Villanelle

Free Printable Poet Bios

Browse all poet bios now

Shakespeare Resources

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18

Common Core Picture Poems: Sonnet 73

Sonnet 104 Annotated

Sonnet 116 Annotated

Character Analysis: Romeo and Juliet

Character Analysis: Was Hamlet Sane or Insane?

Why Does Hamlet Wait to Kill the King?

10 Fun Shakespeare Resources

About Shakespeare: Poet and Playwright

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

See all 154 Shakespeare sonnets in our Shakespeare Library!

About Us

  • • Our Story
  • • Meet Our Team
  • • Literary Citizenship
  • • Poet Laura
  • • Poetry for Life: The 5 Vital Approaches
  • • T. S. Poetry Press – All Books
  • • Contact Us

Write With Us

  • • 5 FREE Poetry Prompts-Inbox Delivery
  • • 30 Days to Richer Writing Workshop
  • • How to Write Form Poems-Infographics
  • • Poetry Club Tea Date
  • • Poetry Prompts
  • • Submissions

Read With Us

  • • All Our Books
  • • A Ritual to Read to Each Other
  • • Best Love Poetry
  • • Book Club
  • • Children’s Book Club
  • • Every Day Poems
  • • Literacy Extras
  • • Literary Analysis
  • • Poems to Listen By: Audio Series
  • • Poets and Poems
  • • VerseWrights Journal
  • • William Blake Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Shakespeare Sonnet Library

Celebrate With Us

  • • Poem on Your Pillow Day
  • • Poetic Earth Month
  • • Poet in a Cupcake Day
  • • Poetry at Work Day
  • • Random Acts of Poetry Day
  • • Take Your Poet to School Week
  • • Take Your Poet to Work Day

Gift Ideas

  • • Give the Gift of Every Day Poems
  • • Our Shop
  • • Everybody Loves a Book!

Connect

  • • Donate
  • • Blog Buttons
  • • By Heart
  • • Shop for Tweetspeak Fun Stuff

Copyright © 2021 Tweetspeak Poetry · Site by The Willingham Enterprise · FAQ & Disclosure