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 The second of my collections of poems written for "Express It In Eight." |
| As usual these days, I choose blog format because it offers more space for the work. |
| Now You Tell Me? Oh, extended irony, it takes a lifetime and geriatric eye to understand, in last epiphany, how dear to us is youth. I don’t regret a thing; at least I had my fling. Line count: 8 Free verse For Senior Ventry Forum No prompt. |
| Writer’s Block Nature abhors a vacuum emptiness is a resounding gong a deserted room and meaningless song. Like the dry well refreshment departed a cracked bell creativity not started. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.30.26 Prompt: Feeling like an empty well. |
| Stormy There’s excitement in bad weather, when the wind is strong enough to make one stagger on the path, raindrops biting at exposed skin. Then dark the clouds are massed, scudding through the heavens, and the blood racing in the veins, so that life becomes aware again. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.29.26 Prompt: Walking in extreme weather. |
| Sweetheart Sweetheart, a word of long ago, speaking of times so distant, with songs of love so soft and low, and magic in the precious instant. Electric touch of hand and lip, eyes so deep and dreaming, elder flower taste on every lip, thus the loved one seeming. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.28.26 Prompt: Write a poem about a sweetheart. |
| Worthless Lost shoe on the highway cast off and deserted without sign of a partner unwanted and worn. Battered and bruised its best days are gone wandering over abandoned alone. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.27.26 Prompt: Write a poem about something worthless. |
| Five Five words in every line, five words to catch them, five words pronounced so fine, and so to enlighten them. One word for the unaware, one for the brassy bold, one for the glassy stare, all for less than gold. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.24.26 Prompt: Write a poem with 5 words in every line. |
| Wall This wall erected to celebrate what’s mine is mine and yours is yours and also thus to demarcate the boundaries of our endeavours. To guard my thoughts and shelter thine for which we’ve fought and drawn the line. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.23.26 Prompt: Write a poem about a wall. |
| A Moment How long is a moment? Is it an instant in time so fleeting and miraculous that it exceeds all expectation? Or can it be a lifelong experience of sheer joy and special being that lasts forever? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.20.26 Prompt: The beauty of a single moment. |
 Clutter The landscape of my desk overpopulated mess a lifetime’s scattered tracks confusion piled on stacks. And yet the clutter works a use for all that lurks each one assigned a place secretly ordered space. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.13.26 Prompt: Clutter. |
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