Eight-line Poems

Warning

Warning

Tread wary as you go
and take things very slow;
I tell you what I know
from pain to heel and toe.

The land has set its traps,
its vigilance won’t lapse;
you might escape perhaps,
but likely take your raps.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aaaa bbbb, 6 syllables per line
For Express It In Eight, 04.08.22
Prompt: Photo of barrel cacti littering the desert floor.