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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2316158-Eight-line-Poems-2/day/1-6-2026
Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #2316158

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.
January 6, 2026 at 9:59am
January 6, 2026 at 9:59am
#1105277
A boy dreams of a sailing ship in another world.


Space Travel

The edge of flat earth
(no cause for our mirth)
where drops the world to abyss

suggests a proposal
instead of disposal
where other lands meet in a kiss

distances astronomical
are now become comical.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aab ccb dd
For Get The Picture? 01.06.26
Prompt: As per illustration.

January 6, 2026 at 9:37am
January 6, 2026 at 9:37am
#1105276
Distasteful

I’ll bend this one a mite
taste being a fickle thing
and bring it down a bite
with buds too old to sing.

Distasteful might be bad
not half as sad as gone
with all foods that I’ve had
their taste now just a yawn.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 01.06.26
Prompt: Write a distasteful poem.


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