Prompts for Hour Twenty-One
You bridge a pipeline to each tree,
and flower patch and unpulled weed.
You’re more than just a plastic snake
as water shoots out from your neck.
You are my staff my scepter sleek
when I into my garden sneak.
I need not build a grand canal,
Or carry water in a pale.
My aqueduct— three-quarter hose,
Small waterfalls feed from your nose.
With you, I travel back in time,
to Eden’s watered river prime.
Oh, flowing sapphire staff made clear,
A snake, like you, is welcomed here.
Text Prompt
An ode is a formal address to a person, place, or thing, not present. An irregular ode does not have a traditional form but the manner largely retains the tone and thematic elements of the classical odes. There’s a wonderful example poem here, called an Ode to Shea Butter by Angel Nafis.
Lovely ode to the water hose “snake.” Nice rhymes.
These lines show how valuable that water is:
“With you, I travel back in time,
to Eden’s watered river prime.”