Eight-line Poems

Pearl

Pearl

Buried treasure
for the lady’s pleasure,
when the oyster bit
on a piece of grit,
and chewed the fat
till it looked like that,
a pearl to reap
from the rolling deep.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 10.30.23
Prompt: Illustration of a pearl within an oyster.