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. |
Juice Never mind the juice, Bruce, just savour the flavour; I know that you are loose, Bruce, but give the peach a waiver. I know you do not care for the how and why and wherefore, but the dripping from your chin should not cause unholy din. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab ccdd For Express It In Eight, 11.30.23 Prompt: Juice. |
Horizontal Out there the horizon is flat, as straight as though honed by a giant plane in the grip of some vast carpenter. Yet even here, on the Great Plains, there are secret pits and dimples, hidey holes in the emptiness, where the sky closes in above. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.29.23 Prompt: Write a horizontal poem. |
Mannequin Mannequin about the town, spruce and chic in understatement, jaunty hat over one eye pulled down, and jacket loose in fashionwise abatement, make up stark in colours prime, stands she tall among the crowd, haughty conqueror of time, reflected in her window proud. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 11.28.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
Pardon? Oh, nothing, just forget it, it drifts away so let it, importance it had none, and what is done, is done, a silly comment really, if we regard it fairly, let us not dismember the thing I don’t remember. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.27.23 Prompt: Just forget it. |
Alice Alice went down the rabbit hole, I think it was a rabbit’s - not a mole’s, had a drink and nearly drowned, met the queen but wasn’t crowned, invited to a mad hatter’s party, moved on from there and rather smartly, bandied words with a caterpillar, and got back home in time for dinner. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.26.23 Prompt: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. |
Life Lessons Live free or die is all the reason why the grand experiment to be no detriment in every human soul the finest of our role that from the depths we’re lifted once we with life are gifted. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.22.23 Prompt: Simple rules for living. |
Ark Young Noah, an uncertain rower, used motors outboard when pressing onward with the ship, but Ham, his son, who ran the zoo with a sense of fun, was popular with very few - his demeanour was de meaner of de two. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.21.23 Prompts: Zoo, demeanour, ship. |
From Hippy to Snippy I used to be cool when cool was the rule, and laid back was paid back with honour from fools. But now to be trendy, a modus vivendi, I think I’d rather play pool. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabba cca For Express It In Eight, 11.20.23 Prompt: I used to be cool. |