Eight-line Poems 2

There Must Be a Porpoise

There Must Be a Porpoise

There must be a porpoise
for doll fins to fly
to gather the nut, Meg’s,
down from the sky.

Flash be the dandy lions,
suffering sham pain.
Who brought the eider down
in quacking refrain?


Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb
For Express It In Eight, 02.04.25
Prompt: “There Must Be ___”