Most of our ordinaries aren’t ordinary
When you think about them
When you take away the context of today
Or personal familiarity
Shift your point of view away from privilege
Reconsider commonplace expectations
From alternative perspectives
Like refugee camps or cacao plantations
Where there are scant comforts and no need for glossy ads
Places where it’s ordinary to have nothing
Where the same old means starkness and struggle
Not the ennui of boredom
Where all the ordinaries grow obese
Fattened with empty promises
Spurred on through enhanced consumption of sweet nothings
Until every luxury and remarkable delight loses luster in our clouded sight
Where miracles are hidden in plain view
We don’t see them anymore
We think they’re ordinary
Common, unremarkable, usual
Extraordinary, cloaked by repetition
Extraordinary, masked by tedium
Extraordinary, muffled by a lack of imagination
Most of our ordinaries aren’t ordinary
When you think about them
David Trudel © 2013
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Ordinary
Most of our ordinaries aren’t ordinary
When you think about them
When you take away the context of today
Or personal familiarity
Shift your point of view away from privilege
Reconsider commonplace expectations
From alternative perspectives
Like refugee camps or cacao plantations
Where there are scant comforts and no need for glossy ads
Places where it’s ordinary to have nothing
Where the same old means starkness and struggle
Not the ennui of boredom
Where all the ordinaries grow obese
Fattened with empty promises
Spurred on through enhanced consumption of sweet nothings
Until every luxury and remarkable delight loses luster in our clouded sight
Where miracles are hidden in plain view
We don’t see them anymore
We think they’re ordinary
Common, unremarkable, usual
Extraordinary, cloaked by repetition
Extraordinary, masked by tedium
Extraordinary, muffled by a lack of imagination
Most of our ordinaries aren’t ordinary
When you think about them
David Trudel © 2013
Share this:
Like this:
Related
Leave a comment
Filed under Poetry
Tagged as blank verse, common, creativity, extraordinary, free verse, metaphor, ordinary, poetry, social commentary