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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. |
| Washing Up The remains of the day, crumbs left on the plate, seconds, moments scattered in the wake of our passing, the disregarded debris of time’s constant clamour, wait in the dish pile for memory’s washing. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.09.23 Prompt: The remains of the day. |
 Lacemaker Lacemaker gathers the morning dew stitches and fiddles and tats her design round and round bright threads she weaves catches the light but with others in mind dreams of the mayflies and sweet butterfly plans on the beetles and sucks them quite dry her artistry done she ties the last knot then waits in the shadows to see what is caught. Line count: 8 Verse that runs free then plays with a rhyme , is caught and ends up in their trap. For Express It In Eight, 02.08.23 Prompt: As per Illustration. |
| Suburban Legend They’ve put something in the water, something they didn’t oughta, they told us it’s to do us good, but there’s a rumour in the ‘hood, it’ll turn us into zombies, just like old Abercrombie, who they certified as dead, then found sleeping in his bed. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 02.05.23 Prompt: Write a poem about something in water. |
| Compass Trembling, yet with certain assurance, you point the way, unwavering between this and that, here and there, your indicating finger adamant as you declare allegiance to your stated purpose, your chosen path, Such single-minded devotion to your allotted task! Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 02.03.23 Prompt: Compass. |
 Teenworld They call it mess but they don’t know that in my head it’s all just so; and all that I possess is here, to me it’s all so very clear that everything must have its place, each valued thing in its own space. My mom she tidied yesterday, and now I’ve got it back this way. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 01.30.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Honour Prince of poets, Robert Frost, died in ‘63 to our cost, four Pulitzer Prizes won, and for America’s favourite son (young JFK), a poem read, a ringing paean upon his head, but which the greater honoured be? If you ask me, ‘twas Kennedy. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 01.29.23 Prompt: 1963 - Robert Frost, an American poet, died. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, and also recited a poem during JFK's inauguration ceremony. |
 Composers Brahms, Beethoven and JS Bach, Haydn, Liszt, Debussy, Mozart, Strauss, Bela Bartok, and others just as juicy, Schubert, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Grieg, and Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoffsky, were musical, not wordy. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 01.28.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Bewildered Be wilder shouts the madding crowd I would not care if it weren’t so loud And noise is but a two-edged sword Quiet requires we reach accord They beat the drum give peace a chance And all it seems will riot enhance The fuss leads all to fault and blunder While I stand by in silent wonder. Liner count: 8 Rhyming couplets For Express It In Eight, 01.27.23 Prompt: Write a bewildered poem. |
| Geology From the turbulence of life, history lays down its strata, sheets of sediment compacted, containing all that was and leaving us the lessons of the past. We can read through the ages for truth or, head in the clouds, wish for time to stop. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.25.23 Prompts: Turbulence, sediment. |
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