What's your favourite month of the year? Leave your answer in the comment section. That said, Have you ever read an ode poem? And what are odes anyway? An ode is a formal, often ceremonial lyric poem that praises, glorifies, or celebrates a person, place, object, or idea Take the poem below as an example. John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ Well now, back to business 😌 For our daily writing exercise today, Write an ode poem dedicated to your favourite month of the year. We want what you all want, A beautiful poem. Give us something memorable, a striking imagery, a well thought out personification, a gutting metaphor. Go visceral. There are no word limit for this contest. Write as you please. And plss, Keep the tradition of reading and feedback alive. We love you all. Now run, Go make good poetry. Tag us with
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