an ode

the contours
the grace
yet you will burn me
moisture escapes from your orifice
snakes of steam hiss out of you
I am in awe of you

"indulge me, pressure cooker"

ode to shoes

Starting with this, I will write an ode to anything or everything I can think of. Of course I won't be able to get anywhere near Pablo Neruda's odes but I can try, can't I?

shoes

my red canvas shoes

white borders

red laces

white laces

which to choose

perfect fit

contrasts with white outfit

matches the red dresses

to the hilt

loves my toes

toes love it too

ankles like its warmth

rubber soles

kiss the roads

spiritually reverent

each day is a breakthrough

for those shoes

my red canvas shoes

"they touch the elements, revelations don't come amiss"

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Update@ 09/05/2010, 10:43 AM: Added a photo!

*grin*

an ode for convoluted crevices

deep crevices
absorb sound, churning it for the brain
convoluted shells weigh reverberating words
lobes soft
bitingly so
pierced, decorated with love.
you deserve stars
I settle for second best-
I let you sparkle with diamonds
set in matt finished platinum.
my closest confidants
of my lover's naughty whispers,
I write this ode for you,
my much treasured ears.

Come ride the Poetry Train...

Ode to the Bard---Sonnet---Poetry Thursday

prompt is to (1) Write a poem to, for, or about a poet and/or (2) Write a letter to a poet as given here. I take on part (1). That works well as a letter too, I think.

Ode to the Bard

writing this for you, oh great master
one of the best, your work adulated.
you wrote plays, mostly convoluted;
reading those, your words give pleasure;

the depth of which has no measure-
your work- even now, does not seem dated.
all lines and stanzas are there fated
by your popular appeal, poetic grandeur.

excelling in both comedy as well as tragedy;
you take us to a world full of imagery.
most quoted writer of literature & history;

your repertoires of sonnets are remedy
for beauty, love, mortality. discovery
of all these leading us to joyful allusory!

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Here I write a Petrarchan Sonnet in which the rhyming pattern is a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-e-c-d-e. Sonnets by Shakespeare follow the rhyming pattern a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g . Those are English Sonnets . As I am the one writing it, I can chose the style..!! And please do not ask me about iambic pentameter.

For various types of sonnets click, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet

Finally, I dedicate this to a very dear friend, Stanley Shiel who made me go back to Shakespeare and Sonnets.

To read more on the prompt or optional poetry , please click here.