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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.
December 4, 2023 at 5:24pm
December 4, 2023 at 5:24pm
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Guardian of the Shore

A wind-shaped tree
bending, all branches gathered, twisted,
pleading for return
from someday long and far away,
sweeping, wide-winged
to the departed gale,
stands dark and silhouetted
‘gainst the bright ocean far below.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eighty, 12.04.23
Prompt: Choose a word or words from these three poems to include in a poem of your own!



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