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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. |
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. |
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. |
![]() ![]() 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
![]() ![]() 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. |
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. |