(Poem 290 for 2024 – I am writing a poem a day)

She shaped this beautiful
dish with her own two hands
out of white clay spun on a pottery
wheel and brushed with porcelain
paint before firing to perfection.

He built this dome in an ancient
mosque with his own two hands
out of bricks, wood, and stucco,
so everyone could hear the Imam’s
voice resonating and to symbolize
heaven arching high above the faithful.

She designed this sunken
amphitheater with her own two hands
out of stone, brick, limestone, and marble
and directed the labor of 30,000
people for over a decade for its completion.

He created this axe-throwing
target with his own two hands
using woodworking tools, wood glue,
live edge Maple, Redwood, and Cedar,
and may never throw anything at its surface
because it turned out too beautiful to destroy.

@Home Studio – 290^th poem of the year