https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np What do you notice about these? What elements do they have in common? If we wanted to write something similar, what would we have to keep in mind? en-us 2020-10-26 14:16:51 UTC 2026-01-06 03:54:37 UTC hello@padlet.com eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833382 Ode to My Socks
Pablo Neruda - 1904-1973

Maru Mori brought me
a pair
of socks
which she knitted herself
with her sheepherder’s hands,
two socks as soft
as rabbits.
I slipped my feet
into them
as though into
two
cases
knitted
with threads of
twilight
and goatskin.
Violent socks,
my feet were
two fish made
of wool,
two long sharks
sea-blue, shot
through
by one golden thread,
two immense blackbirds,
two cannons:
my feet
were honored
in this way
by
these
heavenly
socks.
They were
so handsome
for the first time
my feet seemed to me
unacceptable
like two decrepit
firemen, firemen
unworthy
of that woven
fire,
of those glowing
socks.

Nevertheless
I resisted
the sharp temptation
to save them somewhere
as schoolboys
keep
fireflies,
as learned men
collect
sacred texts,
I resisted
the mad impulse
to put them
into a golden
cage
and each day give them
birdseed
and pieces of pink melon.
Like explorers
in the jungle who hand
over the very rare
green deer
to the spit
and eat it
with remorse,
I stretched out
my feet
and pulled on
the magnificent
socks
and then my shoes.

The moral
of my ode is this:
beauty is twice
beauty
and what is good is doubly
good
when it is a matter of two socks
made of wool
in winter.

"Ode to My Socks" from Neruda & Vallejo: Selected Poems, by Pablo Neruda and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993). Used with permission of Robert Bly.]]> 2020-10-26 14:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833382 eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833386 ODE TO THE SAUSAGE
O, sausage sizzling in your succulent fat.
You disgust humanity’s vegans and vegetarians,
yet you dissolve in spite of them
within the depths of my mouth.
Those who say you are nothing but crude fat
in a pigskin casing are blind to your salty sweet taste,
your crispy softness,
your fierce fragrance.
Considered impure by many,
you are the devil’s tool of temptation—
a serpent of kielbasa.
You are flavor incarnate.
Presidents have their nations,
a boot has its confident shine,
a world of imperfection has you.
—Jimmy Morrill]]> 2020-10-26 14:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833386 eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833395 ODE TO WATERMELON
I bite into you
and relish the burst of wild flavor
I haven’t tasted all winter.
Your sweet juice
floods my mouth—
buries my tongue
in fresh pinkish flesh.
I swallow your cold fruitiness
and my taste buds smile
with excitement.
Oh, watermelon,
the scent of June wind
mixed with the heat of August sun
washes over me
as I take another bite
of summer.
—Marnie Briggs]]> 2020-10-26 14:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/861833395 eggemeierc https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862876079 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hxpvy32nsCQaAf02mj7ZbptE78JEi95OJstmYF-Yat0/edit#slide=id.g1cd8de576_029]]> 2020-10-26 17:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862876079 lauj4 https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862889589 They're all using parts of the five senses, they're also about something they like.]]> 2020-10-26 17:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862889589 maximums_crustacean https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862892137 they all are about a specific object. ]]> 2020-10-26 17:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862892137 heint https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862894985 They all are disturbing and make me cringe and I do not enjoy reading or listening to them because they are all creepy]]> 2020-10-26 17:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862894985 holcombev https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862896820 I noticed that they are all about specific objects]]> 2020-10-26 17:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862896820 https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862897900 They are all about a everyday thing nothing special. They describe the item and talk about what its like, with all 5 senses. Also they all have words.]]> 2020-10-26 17:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862897900 maketat https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862906688 all of them are about a specific object ]]> 2020-10-26 17:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eggemeierc/vp5fu59lwdye32np/wish/862906688