Eight-line Poems

Water Vole

Water Vole

A favourite animal, the water vole,
lives by the river, in a hole;
though known by many as water rat,
he really isn’t a bit like that,
being more a sort of miniature beaver,
a swimmer at heart and dry land leaver,
forever united in the literary soul
are the water vole and his friend, the mole.


Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 04.02.23
Prompt: Write a poem about an animal.