Eight-line Poems

Aquifer

Aquifer

Way down in the dark depths,
through layer and strata,
pressed under the weight of earth,
the aquifer holds its bounty,
hidden and secret, unknown,
it stores millennial waters,
waiting on discovery,
to soak the fields above.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.21.22
Prompt: Aquifer.