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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. |
| Peringuey’s Adder Dwarf king of the desert dunes Mister Sideways sidles on disappears into the sands melts into the shifting surface unseen eyes that watch and wait careful, gecko, danger lurks that tempting wriggler is no worm Mister Sideways baits the trap. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 07.06.23 Prompt: Sideways. Note: Just the mention of the word sideways makes me think of this unique snake. Even snakes can be beautiful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3IE6ajVYBo |
| Once I can’t say I was there but I watched it on teevee, the world just stood and stared when Coventry won the Cup. Oh yes, we celebrated like no one did before, cos we knew that it was fated and would never be again! Line count: 8 Rhymed abac For Express It In Eight, 07.05.23 Prompt: Write a poem about something that has little chance of actually happening. |
| The Grit on My Tongue Birthstone you say? Well, mine is pearl, and that’s kinda ironic since Pearl was a friend of mine, and more than that, a femme fatale. I came very close to mistake monumental. Line count: 8 Form: I call it Afterthought - free verse except that the last lines of the stanzas rhyme. For Express It In Eight, 07.04.23 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by your birthstone. Note: Happy Independence Day! |
| American Gothic Steady, Martha, don’t let them see the deep joy of toil to build the prosperity that enables the frivolity of their careless lives. They must imagine only the grim fact of honest labor on the faces of thee and me if they are ever to understand the emptiness and waste of their ways. Only if we maintain this steadfast, stolid bearing can we personify the simple truths that yet might rescue them from the meaningless swamp of modernity. Yes, Henry, though there are times when even I find it hard to believe that light can penetrate such unremitting darkness in the soul, such foolishness and idiocy. But you are right and, for the moment, I must endure and let them be as they will be. Line count: 8. I have separated each line with a space to show that there are indeed eight lines, even though some are longer than others. Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 07.03.23 Prompt: The painting American Gothic by Grant Wood. |
| Scarecrow Named for my profession, I have tried to live to expectation, but, sadly, it’s my confession (sigh) that scaring really ain’t my station. My arms are clearly all-embracing, spread wide to all the world in search, and, far indeed from threatened chasing, to crows they make a useful perch. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 07.02.23 Prompt: National Build a Scarecrow Day. |
| Elevator This party is on the rise; that’s all now - we’ve hit our max, any more might be our demise, already I’m seeing some cracks. Though right now we’re all very high, we are destined in time to descend, our limits we are fools to deny, it’s not the fall that I fear, it’s the end! Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 07.01.23 Prompt: Party in an elevator. |
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