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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. |
| Thunder Thunder always happens when it’s raining or so sang Fleetwood Mac Yet who can hear the soft fall of an English drizzle when the memory takes one back Or the grey veil of downpour in the distant hills rumbling in the midst of African drought and the cat hiding under the bed from storms you know nothing about. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 05.05.25 Prompt: Thunder. |
| Lichen Fingers pick at the rock, scratching away the lichen, and negating the growth of decades, the humble expansion of creeping ages, creation of soil, enabling the greening of earth, and life on the planet. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.03.25 Prompt: Write a slow growth poem. |
| Making a Difference Like a rock in the stream he stands immovable a silent and still figure dividing the flow of the crowd that parts around him unnoticed by those eyes that see only another world and a new direction. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.02.25 Prompt: Write a poem about making a difference. |
| On Waking In that first moment when I awake, the dream fades with the shades of night, all that was clear and accepted is now scattered and chaotic, the shreds of meaning torn by the dawn, and I am left befuddled and cold, mourning in the dim light of morning, bereft of another world’s charms. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.01.25 Prompt: Include the emboldened phrase in your poem. |
| Hurry A reason to rush is never enough to shatter the hush is not the right stuff. More haste means less speed mistakes multiply and reasons recede while deadlines go by. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab, syllables 5 per line For Express It In Eight, 04.30.25 Prompt: Write a poem about a reason to rush. |
| It’s a Language All things are grist to art’s pure mill both deepest grumble and shrieking shrill the shocking jolt and mundane sight a brightest dawn and darkest night. It’s how the thing speaks to your ear with cotton wool or sickening fear with beauty like the Mona Lisa or dread Picasso’s Guernica. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.29.25 Prompt: Art by Herman Melville. |
| Cabbage It would be far from me to disparage a vegetable as noble as the cabbage much neglected though it be just try it and you’ll see that each part of it is tasty in its own way and don’t be hasty open your mind as well as your mouth and let prejudices head south. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.27.25 Prompt: Write a poem about a vegetable. |
| Square Eyes Yes, I binge my way though several seasons You see I must know all the reasons Why Jill left Brad and why Brad went mad And celebrations turned so sad Of how that stranger came to town With all the rumours going round Sure I know it’s just the television But if I miss it I’ll meet derision. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.26.25 Prompt: “When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it. Forever.” |
| Pink Whatever you may think It takes both red and white to make the colour pink regardless of the light and plenty of the virginal plus a dash incarnadine will blend into the terminal like rosé if it’s wine. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.25.25 Prompt: Write a pink poem. |
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