Here's a wonderful one, Ode to a Box of Tea, by Pablo Neruda. It starts like this:
Box of tea
from
elephant
country,
now a worn
sewing box,
small
planetarium of buttons:
you brought
into the
house
a sacred,
unplaceable
scent,
as if you had come from another planet.You can hear my brother reading the whole thing here.
If you need some odes and don't have any Pablo Neruda books on hand, here's a link to a nice pdf collection you can start with, including the full text of the Ode to a Box of Tea: Odes.
Why not write an ode to something you're thankful for? And check out today's Poetry Friday roundup.
3 comments:
Odes are perfect for Thanksgiving! I have that book upstairs. I think I'll go find it.
This is great, Ruth! I will have to read more by Pablo Neruda--thanks so much for sharing!
That is a beautiful poem - thanks for sharing! (My computer kept cutting off your brother's reading after the first line or so - arrgh. But thanks for the link to the full text.)
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