An ode is a poem written about an object. Pablo Neruda wrote odes about many ordinary things. Odes can use all 5 senses to describe the object.
Here are a few examples!
Ode to Tomatoes
...the tomato
invades
the kitchen...
Unfortunately, we must
murder it:
the knife
sinks
into living flesh,
red...
a cool
sun...
populates the salads
of Chile...
Ode to French Fries
What sizzles
in boiling
oil
is the world's
pleasure:
French
fries
go
into the pan
like the morning swan's
snowy
feathers
and emerge
half-golden from the olive's
crackling amber.
http://notyourmamasbookshelf2.blogspot.com/2010/07/poem-of-week-ode-to-french-fries-by.html
Ode to the Watermelon
...the round, magnificent,�star-filled watermelon.�It's a fruit from the thirst-tree.�It's the green whale of the summer.�The dry universe�all at once
...lets the swelling�fruit�come down:
...showing a flag�green, white, red,�that dissolves into�wild rivers, sugar,�delight!
http://www.fosterkids2.com/fosterkidscom/tunnel/Mculture/poems/Neruda.HTM
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market
Here, �among the market vegetables,�this torpedo�from the ocean�depths, �a missile �that swam,�now �lying in front of me�dead.
Ode to My Socks
Mara Mori brought me
a pair of socks
which she knitted herself
with her sheepherder's hands,
two socks as soft as rabbits.
...my feet were two fish made of wool,
two long sharks
sea blue, shot through
by one golden thread...