PWoF 2016 - Topic 09 - Sept. 30

[rayheinrich]

         PWoF 2016 - Topic 09 - Sept. 30
         
        Standard instructions:
       

         You should attempt to write a poem inspired by this topic -- not a derivative, literal
         interpretation of the topic.   Create a poem that reflects your own true self.
         
         --> Since the officious rules of PWoF 2016 stipulate that you can submit more than
         one poem; may I suggest, if the fit strikes you, that you include, after your major work,
         a second poem consisting of a bit of transient doggerel, a limerick, or a trenchant
         end-rhyming nonsense poem that somehow reflects the intention of this topic.
         
         (And for anyone who's a bit uncertain about starting out here: Ignore my bullshite and
         just string some words together (that's what everybody else is doing ).  
       

        Topic 9:
       

        Write an appreciation* (or condemnation)  poem about an inanimate object.
        (The larger definition of "inanimate" that includes windmills, even if they do move.)

        This should express your own feelings, not what you believe everyone else thinks about it.
        (Unless you are egomaniacal enough to think they are the same.)

        *An appreciation is an easy-going type of ode.  You can write a  formal, structured ode if you desire.  
        Definition and Examples of an ode:

Can be found here.
(A really cool site, he reiterated.)

If you're terminally undecided, you might consider one of these: