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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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August 31, 2022 at 5:26pm
August 31, 2022 at 5:26pm
#1037137
Spider

Eight eyes staring from the ceiling,
eight legs give that creepy feeling,
furry or shiny,
massive or tiny,
the spider still sends you reeling.

Though they’re not exactly appealing,
there’s no need for your blood congealing,
arachnophobia's concealing.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabba aaa
For Express It In Eight, 08.31.22
Prompt: Spider.

August 30, 2022 at 1:47pm
August 30, 2022 at 1:47pm
#1037108
Side Show

Deep in the crystal ball translucent,
the shadows perform their ritual,
mysterious their every movement
within their tiny world orbitual.

So she bends to watch the play,
another client to her importune
awaits to hear what she might say,
interpretation to their fortune.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 08.30.22
Prompt: Translucent.

August 29, 2022 at 3:09pm
August 29, 2022 at 3:09pm
#1037068
Flying Dutchman

The ghost ship slips from the fog
under a full moon,
the spectre silent on the silver wave,
starkly bright in the sudden light,
the Flying Dutchman
trying yet to round the Cape,
unbroken,
but cursed.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.29.22
Prompt: Illustration of olf galleon in the fog.

August 28, 2022 at 2:53pm
August 28, 2022 at 2:53pm
#1037031
Shoehorns

The thing about shoehorns
that makes them forlorn,
as they neared extinction,
having lost their distinction,
as the chosen implement
of the large-footed gent
with shoes just too small;
it was velcro began their fall.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 08.28.22
Prompt: Shoehorn.

August 27, 2022 at 3:55pm
August 27, 2022 at 3:55pm
#1036999
Craftsman and Craft

The handle,
polished by practised use
to a pearlesque sheen,
greets the touch
with familiarity,
hand and implement
interacting
in perfect motion.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.27.22
Prompt: Pearlesque.

August 26, 2022 at 5:03pm
August 26, 2022 at 5:03pm
#1036969
Fallow

Fallow lie the fields,
bleak and colourless,
the stalks of summer ploughed
and waiting by the grave
for vagabond scrub,
bramble, weed and forbs,
the heralds of new life
in greener years to come.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.26.22
Prompt: Fallow.

August 25, 2022 at 4:24pm
August 25, 2022 at 4:24pm
#1036920
Guerilla Writer

Guerilla writer
approaches under cover of horror,
loads philosophy into his AK47,
camouflages with romance,
plots his fantasy with science,
spins the hypnotic drama,
and attacks before dawn
in children’s literature.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.25.22
Prompt: Guerilla.

August 24, 2022 at 4:54pm
August 24, 2022 at 4:54pm
#1036889
Tumbleweed

Out on the plains,
where the road lies straight
from here to hazy distance,
driven by the wind, the tumbleweed
lines up along the fence,
its journey halted
by the only obstacle in miles,
and home a wind change away.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.24.22
Prompt: Driven.
August 23, 2022 at 3:17pm
August 23, 2022 at 3:17pm
#1036854
Arrangements

A grave subject,
this business of graves,
or maybe to face the flames
of cremation.

In the event
it might not matter at all,
our being concerned only
with tunnels and lights.



Line count: 8
For Express It In Eight, 08.23.22
Prompt: Grave.

August 22, 2022 at 9:09pm
August 22, 2022 at 9:09pm
#1036831
Terminus

The journey through life
is not without strife;
pitfalls are many
but rare the penny.

The ultimate goal
to finish your scroll,
the last of your breath,
no reward but death.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 08.22.22
Prompt: Journey.


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