Day 10 - Ready, Steady, Write

Objects of love

Why did the dish run away with the spoon?

Why did the dish run away with the spoon?

 Once we start giving personalities, wishes, and feelings to the objects around us, anything could happen. For instance, we might end up with a gingerbread man who leaps out of the oven and runs away from the woman who baked him, or perhaps we’ll end up with a carriage clock and a candlestick who are best friends. Who knows, our objects might even fall in love. 

For this exercise, you’ll need not one but two random objects. You could pick two things that are closely related like I’ve done in my poem below, or you could pick things that, on the surface, appear to have nothing to do with each other at all. As the writer with the magic pen, your task then is to make them fall in (or out) of love. Think about what things they might have in common or in what ways they might be different. What might they admire or envy about each other?

 My poem isn’t so much a love poem as a lament from the fork who has been rejected by the spoon.

The fork’s lament.

 She said she found me spiky.

She didn't like my jibes and barbed comments.

She said I hurt her.

But I was just trying to get close,

pressing myself against her concave belly.

I thought we were a pair, made for each other.

She just saw me as a brother.

She shone like a mirror,

left me looking at my own reflection.

I always found the bowl hollow, shallow

But when it happened, finally I understood.

Their curves were an echo of each other.

They went well together.

She said she wanted someone bigger than her,

a place to rest her head.

She left me in a lonely bed.

I was just a fork though I'd have given her the moon.

She found a dish who would run away with a spoon.