Ear
What it does rhymes
with what it is,
though sometimes it
needs aid or deft fingers
to do what it does.
It can be cupped, boxed,
lent or bent.
Many pierce and adorn it,
making it art.
One artist sliced it off,
then bandaged and painted it.
When new, it is sweet
as a delicate shell
but will enlarge with age,
outgrowing it's space.
It remembers always being
shell-like and harkens back
to its origin when consoled
by the Source.
Written for Poetics — in Schiller's footsteps — at dVerse Poets. To close out the celebration of the one-year anniversary of dVerse, Claudia Schoenfeld's prompt invites us "to observe someone or something and describe what you see."
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