Eight-line Poems 2

The 'Manis

The ‘Manis

There’s a place in Africa
where the heat of the lowlands drops away
and the silence of the heights lives in the wind
cool and sharp in its clarity.

Up there the grass bends always in one direction
and the rocks twisted and pierced with the blue of sky beyond
lean upon each other in rows
while the streams flow with golden water over white pebbles.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.24.25
Prompt: Write a poem about an unusual place.