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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. |
| Rear Window Our ancestors never saw (like a movie in reverse), through the mirror and the rear window, reality rushing away as though leaving us to a driven fate, alone. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.08.24 Prompt: Rear Window. |
| Subterranean Going underground seemed a strategy sound and the bitter enders didn’t need defenders as they battened down into bunker town but what brought their demotion was a volcanic explosion. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 02.07.24 Prompt: Write a subterranean poem. |
| Remember Remember is a vast land, unchanging ‘neath a settled sky and time in deepest silence reigns, as peace goes on forever. There the faces of our youth go unafraid, unageing, and we, in safe and grounded stance, sip of the wine eternal. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.06.24 Prompt: Remember. |
| Lefties Sinister being Latin for left it surely cannot be right for humanity to be so cleft with southpaws in a bad light. Try cutting your nails with some scissors when your left must handle your right now remember those slips and misses caused by tools that no longer bite. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 02.05.24 Prompt: Sinister. |
| Culinary Delight Ah yes, the TV dinner, friend of the lonely bachelor, no chance of getting thinner or manipulating spatula. And this, in step with microwave (ubiquitous in the seventies), was right up there to save and put singles in the heavenlies. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 02.04.24 Prompt: TV Dinners. |
| Genius The man who thought of it must be in clover his light bulb lit and scrimping days were over for every second car at least (the numbers far too great for hearers) whether bought or sold or sometimes leased has pine tree smelly at the mirror. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 02.03.24 Prompt: Pleasing aromas - pine. |
| Submarine Party It seemed a good idea at first but later turned out to be worst; the crew said we really ought to party right there in the port. It was tight but the booze was free, just as well that we were not at sea, someone flipped a lever while drunk, now it seems that the party has sunk. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 02.02.24 Prompt: Worst place to have a party - in a submarine. |
 Rock Climbing Rather you than me, buddy, with my boots all scuffed and muddy, but yours precarious, with cleats so various, perched upon a ledge, indeed, the very edge, the only thing that’s holding ‘gainst life’s complete unfolding, your slender means of ascent, or slip and swift descent. Line count: 8 Rhyming couplets. For Express It In Eight, 02.01.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
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