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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. |
| Travelling Light Steeped in age as I am the evaporation of memory comes upon me and the days hurry by without impression the triumphs and defeats departed from this shell a reservoir near drained. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.12.24 Prompts: Reservoir, steep, evaporation. |
 Mirror, Mirror My best face forward flawless for the fans a sheen on silky skin my perfect pose my pride. Yet still my wound it bleeds and never word is spoken of my unanswered needs and how my soul is broken. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.11.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Piccard’s Trieste Down in the darkest deep in midnight marine murk the nightmare creatures sleep and glowing monsters lurk two men in a steel ball silent in listening hush are dreaming of sunlight recalled and the word they avoid is “crush.” Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 01.10.24 Prompt: On January 23, 1960, Navy Lt. Donald Walsh and Jacques Piccard descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (the lowest place on earth) in the submersible the Trieste. |
| When the Going Gets Tough… As I was going to St Anne’s I met a man who couldn’t dance he seemed to be quite tough enough but I was made of stronger stuff for in this matter of toing and froing it’s clear that only I was going and since that was my chosen tack it seems he was just coming back. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 02.09.24 Prompt: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. |
| 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. |
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