Ode to the Mundane

 

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Ode to the Mundane

 

As I write the prompt today I am reminded of Pablo Neruda’s poem Ode to Tomatoes. How delightfully he makes the ordinary extraordinary by expressing his deep passion for the world’s simplest wonders—as simple as tomatoes or onion or even a large tuna.

Thomas Hood raises the mundane drudgery of the work-life of a seamstress in The Song of the Shirt to a majestic level or think of the two line poem of Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro where he captures the meeting point between the sublime and the mundane:                 

 The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Wendy Cope’s The Orange is another poem of everyday life where the focus is on speaker’s ordinary day at work and how everything is sweetened, made joyful by being in love.

                                 

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So today we ask you to find beauty in the mundane. Explore vibrant life, glory in the mundane moment or object. Appreciate it for what it is.

We never forget that we are part of something vast and meaningful.

One more poem to inspire:

Wild Geese

 By Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Please link one poem that is your response to the material of this prompt. When you link your poem please visit other links in the spirit of the community.