Life, the Universe, and Lani

dripping wet red
sparkling orange
yellow pollen
for the bees

soft red
fragrant orange
tantalizing yellow
for the girls

sweet juicy red
supple tender orange
happy tasty yellow
for the kids

I keep a stack of papers near my computer.  Originally, my papers were a makeshift mouse pad until someone gave me a proper one. But before that act of kindness, I was jotting down notes and ideas on the papers, and even though I now have a faded pink mouse pad, I still keep a stack of papers around. This is not to say I don’t write in a journal or little notepads, but for some reason, I like keeping these papers around.

Part of the reason is they are my poetry class outlines, poems and scribbles from the writing classes I took with my friend Sandra. She’s such a wonderful poet and an inspiration, so when she said she was going to start a poetry class, I told her to sign me up.

Recently, I’ve been leafing through these and I saw one of our assignments was to write an “Ode to” something using Pablo’s Ode to the Tomato and Carl Sandburg’s Night as inspiration. But the above poem arrived from pictures. She brought magazine cut outs and we used them to generate ideas. I saw these and thought an Ode to Summer Colors would be a nice title – and it’s a coincidence that Summer has officially started in the US.

What’s your “Ode to” poem?