Today’s prompt is as follows:
Our prompt for today (optional, as always) takes its inspiration from Pablo Neruda, the Chilean-born poet and Nobel Prize Winner. While he is most famous in the English-speaking world for his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, he also wrote more than two hundred odes, and had a penchant for writing sometimes-long poems of appreciation for very common or mundane things. You can read English translations of “Ode to the Dictionary” at the bottom of this page, “Ode to My Socks” here, and “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” here.
Ode to my Tarot Cards
You sit pretty,
wrapped in your velvet blanket
asleep until I wake you.
Together we co-create,
a special magic that only we understand.
You get me,
I get you
and together we can tackle any problem.
In my hands I hold you,
electricity stirs.
Holding things close to my heart
that you are so happy to share.
A symbiotic relationship,
based on trust and hours spent,
together, cracking the secrets
of the universe.
©Tanja Tomlinson
Ink the Lavender Skies 
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