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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. |
| Vicks VapoRub Vicks VapoRub green top, blue tub granny’s remedy piercing smellery no more snuffles or sneezing ruffles magical lotion without commotion. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 12.05.24 Prompt: None so I improvised. |
| Guessing “How long should you boil an egg?” The answer is quite dubious, it being so long ago - I play for time and memory, “Hard or soft boiled?” “Hard,” he replies, to my relief, thinking overshoot won’t matter, “Two minutes of boisterous boil.” Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 12.04.24 Prompt: Write a poem that contains dialogue. |
| Training Potential is not sufficient, it may be much more than required; if skill is developed proficient, with ease is the task inspired. So practice may not render perfect, improvement it always supplies; hard work and honing of intellect, is bound to deliver surprise. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 12.01.24 Prompt: Potential and sufficient. |
| Statistics Be careful what you wish for, be careful what you say, the thing you are describing may seem another way - Olympus Mons may tower, the highest of all mounts, but Mars don’t have no sea, so what level do you count? Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 11.30.24 Prompt: The tallest known mountain in our solar system, Olympus Mons, is found on Mars. Its base is the size of Arizona, and the highest point is over 16 miles tall. (Earth’s Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.) |
| November November, the conman, creeps in with a smile says the word “balmy” and gentle his style. Down through the dwindling days his smile fades away, and bitter his final glance, cold in the end his stay. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 11.28.24 Prompt: Write a poem that personifies the month of November. |
| Ether I'm being consumed by the ether dispersed into particles in space spread thinly through the universe and dissolved in insignificance. I knew a man who took ether inhaling it in huge gulps but staying conscious yet in ecstacy unbound - they say it murders brain cells. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.27.24 Prompt: I’m being consumed by the ether. |
| Neither Come sit on the fence with me, the finest of places to be, for both sides you’ll always see, and of bias you’re forever free. Don’t choose either this or that, and be neither slender nor fat, be both bowler and at the bat, all because of where you are sat! Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaa bbbb For Express It In Eight, 11.25.24 Prompt: Write an either/or poem. |
| Aquamarine Aqua and marine water of the ocean that clear cool colour of light reflected from sand under the sea flickering between blue and green aquamarine. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.22.24 Prompt: Aquamarine. |
| Accuracy The mot juste will give you a boost and add to your writing the meaning most biting. Don’t be in a hurry, no need to scurry, your real satisfaction comes from precise exaction. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.21.24 Prompt: Write a poem of accuracy. |
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