Eight-line Poems

Brave New Sheep

Brave New Sheep

Modern man identical,
reduced by society’s tentacle,
drained of individual thought,
trained, maimed and bought,
fashioned to fit the mould,
designed for a world grown old,
peace they have at a cost,
when everything else is lost.


Line count: 8
Rhyming couplets
For Express It In Eight, 04.25.23
Prompt: Illustration of the minimal sign for person.