Challenge
From Straw to Gold
Pick an 'ugly' object, and create a character who finds it very beautiful. Have the character describe the object in a way that convinces the reader of its beauty.
Then write another version where you convince the reader- by just describing the object- that the character is mentally unstable.
Small beauties
POV 1
The little cracks
along the surface
artfully places
let the light in.
The color attracts
they eye to see
the little delicate
pieces each inside.
The shape is wondrous
Beautiful and deceiving
Loving made
sadly forgotten.
POV 2
It is cracked and broken,
it fell on too many times
The pot was fixed to many times
leaving it shapeless and undefined.
It never dried, particles stuck inside.
The color long bleached by sun, is gone.