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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. |
 El Condor Pasa How Kafka-esque to feel this way, metamorphosis will have its day, my hands are changing into claws and though the future gives me pause, consider too that I’ll have flight to lift me to a soaring height, and there to drift upon my feathers, so free of earth and care forever. Line count: 8 Rhyming couplets For Express It In Eight, 08.30.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Oops 3 Oh, excuse me, I really didn’t mean… I’m so sorry, I hope you are not hurt, I must apologise, didn’t want a scene… you sure it caused that stain upon your shirt? And no, my mother never said to run but not with scissors; a glass of wine is what I held and smacked you in the kisser! Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 08.29.23 Prompt: Write an accidental poem. |
| Enya About this lady Enya not meaning to offendya but I really do not getya and all the fuss aboutya I dare not say pretentious I’ll settle for relentless your fluffy words extentious and music pretty formless. Line count: 8 Rhymed approximately aaaa bcbc For Express It In Eight, 08.28.23 Prompt: Anywhere Is by Enya. Note: Sorry but I just don’t like her stuff. |
| The Tempest I remember the perfect storm when a tired hurricane joined forces with a nor’ easter, drawing such swirls on the weather maps that brought gasps of ecstatic joy from the lips of delighted meteorologists on the telly, while the seas raged their applause. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 08.27.23 Prompt: The perfect storm. |
| Come Away Now Nothing induces wanderlust like the call of migrating geese, high up in the autumn atmosphere, following the urge to the south with all the empty miles laid before them. We cannot do less than share in that longing to be gone. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 08.26.23 Prompt: The poem, Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver. |
| Air All I need is the air that I breath - The Hollies TeeVee weather girl bringing the news high pressure moving in from the south pushing the winds that dispel the blues sprinkling the rain in the earth’s parchèd mouth breaking this heat wave that made us all sweat freshens the air to a cool summer breeze remember umbrella and you won’t get wet let’s hope that she’s right and it’s not just a tease. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 08.25.23 Prompt: Write a poem about something essential. |
 Profiles Profiles receding Worlds are succeeding Circles repeating Contrast defeating Mirrors unending Outlines defending Edges are bleeding Shadow is reading. Line count: 8 Rhyming couplets, five syllables per line For Express It In Eight, 08.24.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
 Miss Moneyfeather Miss Moneyfeather, charming and polite, teacher of the year in 1923, the girls’ role model and boys’ delight, she schooled them well and gave them glee with lessons that were never chores, they learned so well and became so nice, studied hard and earned top scores, and all of them as quiet as mice. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It in Eight, 08.23.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| The Consumer’s Lament The best things in life are free, but inflation makes a fool of me; all those donations of yesterday are gone and I am forced to pay for the same, but it’s now been bottled by some fool who should have been throttled, and the freebies remaining on offer come with extras that empty my coffers. Line count: 8 Rhyming couplets For Express It In Eight, 08.22.23 Prompt: The best things in life are free. |
| Everest Just a minor point and so we understand, Sir Edmund was no Brit, he hailed from Newsy Land. Another thing to note no matter how we thirst both he and Sherpa Tenzing never said who was the first. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 08.20.23 Prompt: One of the most monumental achievements from the 1950s was the first human ascent to the summit of the tallest mountain on Earth, 29,000 ft. Mount Everest, located between Nepal and Tibet. It was made on 29 May 1953 by Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and British explorer Sir Edmund Hillary. |
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