At dVerse Mist is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem describing an object.
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Object Poems

“All my hurts my garden spade can heal.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Spade Is More Than Itself This is a story maker, a dream builder of futures, of kingdoms and complex lives, weeding out the inconsistent lines of irrelevance and tedium; this is a creator of new things like turning over one's life and planting seeds of posterity, to be remembered among the vines of hope distilled as love; this is my father, my family, my friends, my neighbours and with each thrust a memory comes and grows. ©Paul Vincent Cannon