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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. |
| Monochrome Moments All our yesterdays, mirrored in the old man’s eyes, as the mind, finding the day too long, finds solace in the past. These reruns of those times, treasured fragments of ourselves, call sweetly now and draw us back as the credits begin to stream. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.16.24 Prompt: All our yesterdays. |
| Adamant Strangely, I remember Adam Ant, that odd phenomenon of pop from the early eighties. Talentless, he rode the wave of silly costumes and awful sounds and now is long forgotten. All part of life’s rich tapestry, of which, for once, I’m adamant. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.15.24 Prompt: Write an adamant poem. |
| The Water Drop in grasping the holdless ceiling defies the sight and mind of man denies the fact of river lake and stream proposes cloudbed rivers borne by windy banks to seas and oceans of the sky. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.14.24 Prompt: Write a ceiling poem. Note: This is a bit of a cheat since it was actually written in 1970 and is not brand new therefore. It fitted the prompt so well and I was feeling equally uninspired that I felt I might get away with pointing at it today. It is also unusual that, in order for it to make sense, the title should be read as though it were the first line of the poem. |
 Chip and Block No need to stand alone for I’ll support you with intravenous sap and flying buttress. Together we can make it and reach the sunlit heights to greet the passing breeze and sip the humus earth. Line count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, 09.12.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| A Poem About What Happened Are we talking history, the savage hordes at the gates of Rome, Napoleon in Egypt, the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, Prometheus stealing fire, Krakatoa losing its temper, or are you asking who broke the window yesterday? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.11.24 Prompt: Write a poem about what happened. |
| Bad Habits Bad habits are the curse of monks beyond even their sleepless bunks when all their clothes are made of hessian it’s no wonder they’re in such a messian. And though the cut is wondrous simple they don’t smile enough to raise a dimple their habits are so terrible scratchy they’re all they have and so must patchy. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 09.09.24 Prompt: Bad habits. |
| Hummingbirds Amethyst and emerald, ruby red and agate, jewels on vibrant wings flashing in the sun, sipping at the flowers’ spring, ever mobile to and fro, they sail the febrile air, attendants to the day. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.07.24 Prompt: Illustration of a hummingbird. |
| A Failed Stratagem Some people say there's nothing better than a really fiercely hot red pepper, a warrior spice to set your mouth aflame, who is the bravest, that's the game. But to the plant that owned the pod, the thing is grown not for the nod of humans strange and the games they play, it's supposed to scare, keep us away! Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 09.06.24 Prompt: Write a peppery poem. |
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