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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. |
| Milestones Some things become embedded in the culture, like stars at night, strewn across the skies of our memories. If it’s not unusual, Tom Jones is there, satisfaction belongs to the Stones, all the Beatles ever need is love, Nat King Cole becomes unforgettable, and Mr Dylan is blowing in the wind. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.13.22 Prompt: Blowing in the wind. |
| Posed I stand with hand on hip, mouth wide in shock, amazed at your effrontery and my blaring voice ringing my indignance through the shattered air, my words in harsh insistence, “Answer if you dare!” Line count: 8 Free verse with occasional mischievous rhyming For Express It In Eight, 01.11.22 Prompt: Photo of old fashioned telephone. |
| Decay Down among the detritus, the damp, dank leaves, where rot turns humus into soil, and light is sifted through lace skeletons of another year, secret movement tells another tale, the earthworm draws his littered trail, silverfish hides beneath a stone, centipedes hunt in the shadows, and life proceeds from death. Line count: 10 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.10.22 Prompt: Write a ten-line, low poem. |
| Centrifugal Force Only 39th highest in South America, Chimborazo is, in a way, the highest mountain of all, it being on the equatorial bulge caused by the globe’s rotation, and so receives the extra height to be the spot furthest from the centre of the earth. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.08.22 Prompt: Earth’s Rotation Day. |
| Haircut The kitchen floor, cold, hard and shining, and her locks , golden red, strewn like winnow in the wind, randomly scattered, around the template bowl, stark evidence of a haircut, home styled but free. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.07.22 Prompts: Photo of spaghetti and plate spilled on the floor. |
| Sooner or Later Procrastination, though inevitably my resort, leads ultimately to completion, but promptness yields both completion and contentment. True leisure requires peace of mind. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.06.22 Prompt: Sooner or later. |
| Mourn Wasting time in YouTube, I was seduced by too many videos of home, seduced and reduced to mourning those narrow, shaded lanes, damp roads promising rain later, clouds playing in a laundered sky, a thousand accents in the thronging streets, and I am left bereft. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.05.22 Prompt: Mourn. |
| Massive The French have a word for it; a massif is a large raised plateau. They have one called “le Massif Central” (no prizes for any translations), but the truly massive massif is Africa - it being one enormous plateau with edges nibbled by erosion to a coastal plain. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 12.29.21 Prompt: Write a massive poem. |
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