Eight-line Poems

Poultry Defences

Poultry Defences

Chicken wire to build the coop
set the support posts deep
old wooden crates to build a house
boxes inside for the laying of eggs
and that’s the easy part.


But the pièce de résistance
surely must be, the passing ogre hired
for the scaring of goblins.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.02.22
Prompt: Goblin-proofing One’s Chicken Coop.