don't hate appreciate how do you show appreciation for your favorite people or things today I'm going to show you a form of poetry that helps us express love hi everybody I'm Jeff Cass and we're going to focus on an ancient poetry form called an OD an OD is a poem where we give a shout out to something we love when I say shout out I mean shout out I mean poor a gargantuan triple milkshake size salad Bowa love over whatever you're writing about I mean stand on top of a mountain and Shout toward the sky and do not be embarrassed do not be shy do not be just a little bit in love be a whole giant tanker ship in love be in love like Serena Williams loves her tennis racket like Spider-Man loves his web shooters like frogs love to be kissed by princesses okay forget about that last part we don't really know if frogs love to be kissed I mean have you ever kissed one I have now back to OD when you write an ode you want to talk directly to the object you're affections use that pronoun you as if you're talking straight to it poets often do this by using the word o if I were writing an O for example to my hooded sweatshirt I might Begin by saying oh sweatshirt that hugs me close simple enough another tip for writing an O use the five senses the poet and WR WR May angelu said people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel the five senses make us feel if we want our reader to connect with our writing and feel it then we got to use those senses let's see if we can activate him here what if I say oh sweatshirt that hugs me close and smells like the laundry room where I fold in my family's clothes when I was a teenager how you warn me when the breeze shoots its frozen needle toward my skin now I'm engaged in the senses of touch and smell we're connecting not just to the reader's brain but to their body by the way when you're write an O you really want to kick the language up a notch really exaggerate your descriptions a fancy term for that is hyperbole I love my hoodie cuz it's comfy and always smells like lavender but instead of just saying when it's cold I exaggerated a bit to help the reader really experience my hoodie describing how it protects me from Frozen needles you know something else I love Detroit style pizza Detroit style pizza originated in the 1940s thanks to Gus Gara and his wife Anna they ran a restaurant called Buddies rendevu the original Square shaped pizzas were baked in blue steel pans that Gus and Anna got from local automotive suppliers the pans which were used as drip trays or to hold scrap metal in Auto factories were perfect for making the twice stretch pizza dough and since we're talking about delicious Michigan Cuisine let's write an OD the Detroit style pizza let's start by exploring what we actually love about it it's Square shaped the crust is thick and crispy on the outside light and Airy on the inside slices are easy to pick up and won't flop and drip sauce and grease on your hands or the front of your shirt plus that gooey combination of Wisconsin brick cheese crunchy crust a porous chewy inside tarte tomato sauce it all explodes in your mouth like a like a fireworks of flavors now let's relate our list of the five senses and write an O to Detroit style pizza and we'll mix some hyperbole in here too okay here's my attempt oh Detroit style pizza how I cherish your thick Square brick how I can hold you in my hands without your goo dripping onto my shoes how my teeth feel the satisfying crunch of your crispy crust every Edge an adventure like the skateboard of my Pace buds flying through jump after jump oh Detroit styop Pizza once my teeth pass the Glorious Gateway of your tongue tingling plunge it is then I encounter the true nature of what it means to be cheese emanating from the cheese head state of Wisconsin milky creamy velvety oh Detroit style pizza let us be BFFs for eternity oh inside so light and Airy what a sweet surprise like the city itself all Clank Grunt and assembly line Roar all rashed Wallace trash talk and Joe Lewis swinging fists and octopus soaring onto the ice all heart and love revolutionary Spirit of Rosa Parks and Marvin Gay a City versus everybody a city with a love so big it's got a pizza style all its own did you notice that o I said cheese emanating from the cheese head state of Wisconsin milky creamy velvet what do you think emanating means yeah coming out of you nailed it let me see what this tastes like that is delicious now is your turn write your own o to Detroit style pizza or any other local food that you love really remember an ode is a poem that celebrates a person place or even a thing like pizza to fill your OD with lots of love use the five senses along with descriptive language and exaggerate aim for at least 15 lines have fun