A Poem a Day (636): NaPoWriMo Day 9 - Ode to a light giver

 
Day 9 
 
Prompt: we take inspiration from Pablo Neruda, the Chilean-born poet and Nobel Prize Winner. While he is most famous in the English-speaking world for his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, he also wrote more than 200 odes, often for very mundane things. We challenge you to write your own ode celebrating an everyday object.
 

 
Ode to a light giver
 
A broken quill,
twisted hue, full-brazen violet.

It snakes without the bite,
venomless, curves all around,
one bridge from base to neck,
a coronet without a crown.
 
Carved from the ardent hands
of a blacksmith, its metal base,
strict in its overt devourment,
seeks to eat each part piece by peace.

It drips, unstable, firey dreams
flown upon a still, fluorescent wall.
 
No portraits hang in judgement,
no landscapes shine beauty to admire.
Full glare, the rosebud warmth glows,
reaches higher, daring to perspire.

We watch this thickness shimmer thin,
the quill collapse into its cape.
 
And all this budding light can only blow out,
as deftly and as swiftly as it was born.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 9, 2024