Eight-line Poems

Parallel Inspiration

Parallel Inspiration

As medieval cathedrals grew taller
their walls began to collapse
with the weight of the stones above.
Architects created the flying buttress
to prop up the walls from outside.
Nature, while inventing tall trees
towering from thin tropical soils,
bent genes to form the buttress root.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, November 20 2020
Prompt: As per illustration.