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April 5, 2023 at 12:21pm
April 5, 2023 at 12:21pm
#1047535
Abstract painting , apparently with buffaloes in a vivid sky.


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.

April 3, 2023 at 7:20am
April 3, 2023 at 7:20am
#1047410
An arm lifts a lantern above the fog.


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.
April 2, 2023 at 12:07pm
April 2, 2023 at 12:07pm
#1047350
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 1, 2023 at 10:29am
April 1, 2023 at 10:29am
#1047283
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.


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