Writing prompt #14: ODES TO COMMON THINGS (after Neruda)

Hi Everyone,

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was most famous for his love poems and his odes, especially to the ordinary, the overlooked, and the ecstatics of the everyday. Please reconsider the onion from his perspective:

Ode to an Onion

Onion,
luminous flask,
your beauty formed
petal by petal,
crystal scales expanded you
and in the secrecy of the dark earth
your b…