A pack of Marlboro reds. Pizza from a convenience store. Necklaces from a loved one. A pair of Chucks. Glow-in-the-dark bracelets. They may mean nothing to you or me, but to writers and artists Evan Tan and Katrina Pallon, who maintain a poetry blog, The Poetry of Things, there’s art in the everyday.

“Everyone has a special thing. There’s a story behind that special thing, which is why it means something to us,” says Evan, a freelance writer with an OFW magazine. It may be funny or sad, he says, but along the way, we make it magical by the way they endear themselves to us.

So they write about the Chuck Taylors that remind them of the “near-death madness,” an experience that taught them to “Love, of course–but never too much.” We can only guess, but along the way, we reflect on the broken lamp that an old boyfriend gave us, or the DVDs an old love who moved abroad left at our doorstep. They don’t mean anything to anybody, but they hold memories of the past we’ll cherish forever.

What’s your most treasured possession? Send your images and poetry to thepoetryofthings@gmail.com.

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