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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
July 14, 2023 at 9:11am
July 14, 2023 at 9:11am
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Logocracy

A poet once said to me
that the world would a better place be,
if poets were allowed to rule.
Did I mention the man’s a fool?

Poets live in a land of dreams
and have no truck with financial schemes,
but government is a matter of fact,
with bribe and wine to the rooftop stacked.



Line count: 8
Rhyming couplets
For Express It In Eight, 07.14.23
Prompt: Choose 2 to 3 words from the poem,
The Makers, by Howard Nemerov, and incorporate them into a poem of your own.


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