Eight-line Poems

Bluebird

Bluebird

If happiness be a bluebird
it cannot be a blue bird
for if it be a true blue bird
its music would be blues
and blues be the saddest word
the saddest we have ever heard
and so for happiness preferred
another colour we should use.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aaabaaab
For Express It In Eight, 09.24.22
Prompt: National Bluebird of Happiness Day.