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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. |
![]() ![]() Buffaloes “An old cowpoke went riding out…” Ghost Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones Another one saw buffaloes adrift in that same sky, and maybe no one really knows what rides the storm on high. For these had horns of shining steel and hooves that struck with sparks the painted sky annealed, and foreboding ever dark. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.05.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
![]() ![]() Lost Far off in the darkened marsh, where only the tallest rushes rise as ghosts from the blanket fog, an arm lifts a lantern, aglow and shrouded in the turbid air, its light bound in swathes of mist; powerless to rend the gloom, it paints the darkness red. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.03.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
Water Vole A favourite animal, the water vole, lives by the river, in a hole; though known by many as water rat, he really isn’t a bit like that, being more a sort of miniature beaver, a swimmer at heart and dry land leaver, forever united in the literary soul are the water vole and his friend, the mole. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 04.02.23 Prompt: Write a poem about an animal. |
April Fool I wish I may, I wish I might have half the wit I had last night when I had half of most things right, but out of mind is out of sight and in the morning’s brighter light, these things are gone without a fight, so March is mad as any kite and April anything but bright. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 04.01.23 Prompt: Write a foolish poem. |