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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. |
| Swings Swing low, sweet chariot, squealing in the currents of air, echo the wild shrieks of children, “Higher, Daddy, higher!” as the world speeds by, launching us to the sky, wind playing in our faces and daily cares forgotten. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express Ity In Eight, 05.10.22 Prompt: Photo of old, deserted swing set. |
| Dandelions Where did dandelions grow before the lawn’s invention? Surely nature’s brave commandos sent with full intention, the fly in verdant ointment, designed to spoil perfection, thus their divine appointment a floral insurrection. Line count: 8 Rhymed ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, 05.06.22 Prompt: Dandelions. |
| Unequivocal Fact Nos. 39 and 40 You tell me that, “Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space” and, if I reply, “It’s a matter of semantics,” you call me antisemantic. Such is the modern world where the camera never lies. It’s Photoshop. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.04.22 Prompt: “Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.” "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." |
 Song of Departure Now the creeping mists of autumn soak with dew the morning grass, and the pastel sunrise spreads the coming winter’s message, so you rise in massing chorus, eager now to leave these skies, heading south towards the sun and I, alone, to face the freeze. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.03.22 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Shipwreck The night was dark, lit only by flashes of lightning in the raging skies, our desperation given voice by the rampant waves and pounding thunder, cold our panic as the water flooded the deck, and we loosed the ropes to launch the boat, but not as cold as those northern seas, no comfort as we escaped the foundered ship. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.02.22 Prompt: Illustration of storm at sea and ship sinking. |
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