Eight-line Poems

Willow

Willow

And after these,
what’s left to be said of willows?

To drape a leafy hand,
a trailer in the stream,
raising a wake to ride the current,
a greeting to the sea.

So speaks the weeping willow tree
of stories long forgotten.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.12.22
Prompt: Weeping willow.