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 |  Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present . |
| The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page. |
| Melange “Melange” meaning several things, most memorably the drug necessary for space travel, as Frank Herbert invented in the novel, Dune, a mixture itself of medieval style romance and fanciful fantasy of the desert. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.28.22 Prompt: Melange. |
| Of Foxgloves The foxglove means protection. I suppose they might be - to a fox. For gloves protect the hand or paw. Their upright blooms are all very fine but I’d be wary if I were you - they’re poisonous. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.27.22 Prompt: Foxglove symbolizes protection. |
| In the Family A photo, a record of the past, a family grouping, a shelfie indeed, Edgar and Aileen Bookworm, grandparents Nerd and Dusty, the children, Paperback, Tome, and gorgeous Novella Page, married now to the strapping and voluminous Reader. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.26.22 Prompt: Library Shelfie Day. |
| The Watcher By the windowsill she sits, the indoor cat attentive, watches the sunlight and the rain, sees the snow, tenses when the birds fly, notes the dog walkers, dreams of being free, settles for central heating. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.25.22 Prompt: Windowsill. |
| Mr Kazanjian In Africa, a café was a food store, often without beverages. You would have to befriend the Armenian grocer, be invited to his house, before he’d serve you thick, hot Turkish coffee with a chaser of water in a glass. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.24.22 Prompt: Café. |
| Vortex The snail, retiring in his mobile home, can paint a trail down each and every stair. But, failing this, for fun, the bannister can be his spiral route to gentle, curled up sleep. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.23.22 Prompt: Photo of spiral staircase. |
  Bridging Reverie Suspension drooping from the clouds, suspended indeed in an arc of pendulous swaying in the void, bridge or hammock undecided. Can’t I lever a cantilever, swooping from hand to hand in an engineer’s dream of spans and balance? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.22.22 Prompt: Illustrations of hammock and bridge. |
| Nursing Home He waits in a chair by the window, distant, silent and isolate, his eyes empty as they consider another world, a forgotten memory now recalled in the growing dusk, as the others recede from sight. And they, mindful of their turn, allow him space. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.21.22 Prompt: 1. Invent a word. 2. Define your made-up word, 3. Use the new word in your 8-line poem! Note: The new word is “isolate” used as an adjective rather than a verb. It means a quality of being separated from others. The difference is in the pronunciation, the adjective being sounded as “I-soh-lut” as opposed to the verb’s “I-soh-layt.” |
 Esmé For Esmé - with Love and Squalor. Oh, enigmatic title, giving no hint of the world inside so understated a cover, words in that clear, crystal style of the late J.D. Fitting, as it happens, for a tale of the Glass family. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.20.22 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by titles and/or illustrated covers. |
 Dawn Treader To sail into the Utter East, to tread the dawn in its bright morning, to greet the stars fallen to earth, to see the golden statue underwater, to hear the Dufflepuds at arms, and tread the dark halls of silence, these are the dreams beguiling childhood, these are the worlds to feed a soul. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.19.22 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by titles and/or illustrated covers.  |
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