Here’s mine, written before I discovered the prompt, but appropriate nonetheless:

Scapulimancy

Here’s mine for this week - I can’t decide whether I think it’s successful or not, but it is what it is.

Sacred Ground

i had fun with this.. i consentrated on cadence.. i hope it really is an ode…

at this moment

What a great prompt to get us thinking about how miraculous our bodies are, how we can love even those parts we think we hate or wish to tweak:

Ode to Hips

I don’t know if I did it right.

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-for-convoluted-crevices.html

First time:

http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html

not really an ode, but its about a body part find out what it is

http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/02/polka-dots.html

My subject is the brain. Here it is:

http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/ode-to-the-brain

I wrote an Ode to a newspaper article this morning. Meh. But I had fun!

And if anyone has the stomach for it, a few months back I wrote an Ode to Scrapple, which was also quite bodily.

here’s mine, i actually prefer eyes, but this was easier to write:)
http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/02/read-write-poem-prompt.html

Sorry - I forgot and put two links into my comment, landing it in the moderation queue. Let me try again.
Ode to a newspaper article.

[...] Written for the Read Write Poem prompt, an ode on the body. Links to other responses can be found here. [...]

I wrote a pleiades, not an ode. It’s a little confection intended to brighten up your Monday.

feet

Holding Her Heart In Her Hand, The Wife Discovers She Has Just Made Another Mess To Clean Up

It isn’t an ode, per say, but it started out as one!

Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s mine: This Haiku Has Legs

This was a cool prompt! Thanks!

My entry

Thank you for this prompt, and for those odes. I spent some time marvelling at the way Neruda celebrates and deepens cockles and mussels and root bulbs without overromanticizing them, and wishing for a bowl of that chowder, and not sure I would find the kind of celebration I wanted. I wanted something specific, a particular body, and a reason for it, something as gallant and understated and glowing and even sad as his shallots.

And then today at work, a woman and a rose bush came suddenly to mind, out of a story i heard once by chance. I guarantee it’s not the story you think it is either. It’s here. Many parts of many bodies, vintage and beautiful.

This isn’t an ode, but it does respond to the prompt: They Do So Much More Than Catch Sweat

Here’s my poem Dedicated to my ‘body doubles’, i.e., duos-in-perfect-positive-correlation

Hi, thanks for the prompt, mine’s more code than ode but I guess ‘they’re’ still trying to find my brain…

http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-fighting-back-ive-got-diagnostic.html

Baby..It’s been a long time…

http://quietaboutalotofthings.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode-to-my-bodyat-least-its-wrapper.html

Please excuse the abscence. I believe I may have angered SOMBODY’s God.

Sorry, my bad.

Just for fun — Humongous

Here is mine, written prior to reading the prompt- a body part has been included though it certainly is not a love poem-nor an ode for that matter….

what I have to say

[...] 18, 2008 in Poetry, poems, read write poem, write What I have to say my mouth is clamped shut I cannot write because I cannot hear what I have to [...]

Here is mine to the Shared Body:

http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/02/prompt-body.html

I at least have a start to an ode here:

http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/02/ode.html

Can’t wait to read what the rest of you have posted!

I’m not sure if anyone will get either why I think this is an ode, or why it’s to the body, but here it is:

http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html#6540359570531927254

http://1802eggs.blogspot.com/2008/02/147.html

thanks for letting me play. this is an ode that sort of turns on irony- forgive me.

one more:

http://different-eye.blogspot.com/2008/02/518.html

Can I still get in on this? And I hope it works– PSALTERY. (Just click on my name. I still cannot make a link).

here’s pepek’s link

we’re having a little technical difficulty with her name/log-in above …

About my tattoo

http://amwpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/02/readwritepoem-ode-to-body.html