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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. |
| Batty The most ingenious van Helsing decided he needed some bat wings to aid in his quest and never to rest until Dracula be in Sing Sing. Imagine his surprise, despite all his wiles, he fell from the skies. Line count: 8 Limerick and three rhymed lines For Express It In Eight, 10.16.22 Prompt: Illustration of man attempting flight with batlike wings. |
| Dubious Definitions Vice versa, opined the bursar, means the opposite works as well as it, although it may seem and, no doubt, some deem (for they should know it) it means an evil poet. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabbccdd For Express It In Eight, 10.15.22 Prompt: Vice versa. |
| Scenery Everything is scenery, from dark satanic mills to cool mountain greenery and rolling grassy hills, vast and empty plains, concrete and broken glass of urban decay and stains, rust upon iron, tarnished brass. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 10.14.22 Prompt: Scenery. |
| An Upright Poem “Straight up,” we say when claiming honesty, which might indicate that truth needs perpendicularity. Does it follow, therefore, that those prone to lies are always horizontal, and untruths not called stands? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 10.13.22 Prompt: Perpendicular. |
| Squaring the Circle A dragon and Sir Bidford the knight squared up to fight one day swords flashed and insults took flight as round the square went the fray. Overhead, the ancestry trees sprouted from tangled square roots the ladybirds flew in the breeze and square eyes stared at square foots. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 10.12.22 Prompt: Square. |
| Fly Swats Out in Africa the fly swat is a status symbol held like a sceptre in kingly hand. Swats made of animal tails: imagine the size of insect required by the swat of a giraffe’s tail. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 10.10.22 Prompt: An adult giraffe’s tail averages about 8 feet – longest tail of all land animals. |
| Homage to Mark Knopfler Had a reply the other day to a comment made long ago, forgotten in my human way, but fresh now and clear even so. Mark Knopfler is today’s J.S. Bach and satisfied I would be, if I could write like he could rock and his guitar made my words as free. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 10.08.22 Prompt: National Hero Day - honors the people we look up to and who inspire us to be the best we can be. |
| Midnight Melody Hey diddle diddle, my cat don’t play the fiddle, but she sings a demon meow, the moonlit night endowed. No trivial thing, these notes do ring an unseemly Halloween and a spirited chorus between. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 10.07.22 Prompts: Trivial, unseemly, fiddle. |
| Silent Eyes Makes a change from chatty ones upon the gravel path, and visual loquaciousness will only bring down wrath, where pumpkin vines grow wild and true while babbling like a brook, oh, do not look so sad and blue, just go and take a look. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb dede For Express It In Eight, 10.06.22 Prompts: Silent eyes, the gravel path, pumpkin vine. |
| Gurgle A witch’s brew, a rainbow puddle of oil and water, mixed with a psychedelic murk of bubbling suggestion, and some vague hint of an alien flying insect dropped within, to struggle in the goop. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 10.05.22 Prompt: Picture of swirling, bubbling patterns in purples and green. |
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