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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.
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June 4, 2023 at 7:46am
June 4, 2023 at 7:46am
#1050558
CAUTION

Do not feed this ditty,
it may look awful pretty,
but its bite is much, much worse,
so bad it’ll make you curse.

Its poison makes you heartsick,
and then there’s other tricks
it uses to ensnare -
but read it if you dare!



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 06.04.23
Prompt: Write a dangerous poem.

June 3, 2023 at 11:46am
June 3, 2023 at 11:46am
#1050494
Inimical

I didn’t say you hated,
or even intimated
a notable dislike,
when you said to take a hike.

Just the inference was there
and I felt it in the air,
as you had to take a stand
and declare yourself no fan.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 06.03.23
Prompt: Inimical.

June 2, 2023 at 5:58am
June 2, 2023 at 5:58am
#1050402
Blue and pink butterflies on a tree trunk.


Objection

Said the leader of the Pinks
unto the errant ref,
“I think this really stinks.
Unless my name is Jeff,
the Blues have far too many,
and their team’s much too big.
The rules say under twenty,
or don’t you care a fig?”



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 06.02.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

May 31, 2023 at 8:00am
May 31, 2023 at 8:00am
#1050306
Ambition 2

Jimmy, oh Jimmy, where have you been?
I told you, mom, I’d not be seen
for a while as I’m digging a hole
to China - it’s always my goal.

The back yard weren’t big enough
and the ground really tough,
so I dug in the golf course way over there;
now I hear Chinese voices - I’m nearly there!



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 05.31.23
Prompt: Photo of a large sink hole in a golf course.

May 30, 2023 at 10:17am
May 30, 2023 at 10:17am
#1050265
Ruby-Red

A ruby-red poem
steeped in blood,
quite incarnadine
its arterial flood.

So bright red hot
in the verbal fire,
the words aflame
as the pyre burns higher.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb abcb
For Express It In Eight, 05.30.23
Prompt: Write a ruby-red poem.

May 29, 2023 at 7:29am
May 29, 2023 at 7:29am
#1050223
What’s in a Name?

On Follow That Dream Parkway,
in Inglis, Florida,
the last house is numbered infinity,
the eight having fallen over
through sheer exhaustion
at the naming of the street,
perpetrated by someone not English,
judging by the spelling.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 05.29.23
Prompt: Unusual street names - Follow That Dream Parkway.

May 28, 2023 at 3:27pm
May 28, 2023 at 3:27pm
#1050199
Goat

A curious creature the goat
(have no idea if they float),
their pupils are flat horizontal
so they see both behind and frontal,
though hooved they often climb trees
and do so with the greatest of ease,
but always, when asked how they are,
they respond with a very loud “Bah!”



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 05.28.23
Prompt: Goat.

May 27, 2023 at 8:50am
May 27, 2023 at 8:50am
#1050141
Cricket

In the symphony of summer,
when the heat sets the shimmering tone
rebounding from the hard-faced earth,
and all life seeks the shade,
then sings the cricket with strident creak,
unfettered by the enervating day,
filling the parched and vacant space
to claim the clothes of silence.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 05.27.23
Prompt:
The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead by John Keats.

May 26, 2023 at 10:59am
May 26, 2023 at 10:59am
#1050112
Clear plastic angled across each other reflecting colours.


Obtuse Excuse

At cross purposes
we do collide,
our coloured services
be kept inside.

Our surfaces transparent
are angled square,
directions quite apparent,
no meaning there.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 05.26.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

May 25, 2023 at 10:42am
May 25, 2023 at 10:42am
#1050076
Silence

Seek the silent spaces to soothe your soul,
so says the sapient sage of centuries,
serene and safely seated in security,
swift to speak upon your singular search.

And silence sure would soothe uncertainty,
if such were simple to secure your succour
and soundless were the systems of existence,
surging streams and shouts, internal process.



Line count: 8
Abstract and apparent absence of all but alliteration
For Express It In Eight, 05.25.23
Prompt: Write a poem about Silence.


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