Daily Cascade

Objects Prompt

Prompt:

Make a list of common objects that you might like to write about because of their appearance or personal association. Write comparisons to these objects anything--everything you can think of about the objects. Now take all this information you've gathered and write a story or a poem about what you've discovered with your list. Have fun.

Another Mathew Sweeney and John Hartley Williams exercise in case you're wondering.

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List:
photo in a frame,
eyeglasses
Himalayan salt lamp
bowl of candy
dictionary
calendar

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While You Watch

Watching me, your photo in a frame sits still on my desk as if a nest for memories entombed but not cast aside, and beside it, my eyeglasses
rest folded, with their lenses catching light on the side, quietly

like the Himalayan salt lamp, glowing soft and warm, casting hues in a gentle form. A bowl of candy nearby the frame with your photo waits, sweet like you,
as a small treat for when tears come.

At the edge, my dictionary leans to words bound for reference or wisdom profound, and as I turn each page, the calendar on the wall, marks my time's pace; its comfort, a slow, quiet grace

letting me know how we'll meet again soon, or maybe in many-a-moon, while
you watch me in this room of little things, still and blue, but
bathed in your warm hue, my world embraces its silence.