#NaPoWriMo
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) takes its 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 two hundred odes, and had a penchant for writing sometimes-long poems of appreciation for very common or mundane things. You can read English translations of “Ode to the Dictionary” at the bottom of this page, “Ode to My Socks” here, and “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” here.
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own ode celebrating an everyday object.
Happy writing!
Ode To My Pyjamas (Irregular)
Once I would have
scorned you and worn
other night attire, but
as age has caught up
with me, I prefer you.
With long sleeves for
winter and short-
sleeved cotton for
summer, you are my
favourite of all time!
I wore you as a young
child, patterned with
teddy bears or cats;
you were a spacesuit,
a police uniform, a
trendy trouser suit,
with mum's high heels;
you were so versatile
kept me modest and
comfortable in bed.
In old age I wear you
in rich red hues or
perky pink or blissful
blue! You envelope me;
you fold me in your
inviting arms and legs,
I feel safe and protected
while lying in my bed.
Your clean just-washed
smell soothes me to sleep!
©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2024
VIXEN of VERSE 
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