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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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August 19, 2022 at 3:47pm
August 19, 2022 at 3:47pm
#1036701
Foresight

Last match in the box,
and the stygian darkness
of the labyrinth.

Hold back the night
for one more brief moment,
or save it for despair?

The future beckons,
a land of looming gloom.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.19.22
Prompt: Match.
August 18, 2022 at 11:20am
August 18, 2022 at 11:20am
#1036639
Mountain Men

In the days beyond years
a few wandered to the wild,
to bide with none but their own
authority; a lawless bunch,
was frontier man and bold
to live by morality alone,
but laws are all we have,
when ethics sleep on Boot Hill.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.18.22
Prompt: Lawless.
August 16, 2022 at 3:57pm
August 16, 2022 at 3:57pm
#1036566
Archery

The bow bends with stress
as you draw back the string;
tension hardens the muscles,
yew wood and twisted cord,
as concentration grasps
the target in your narrowed sight,
all released in one intent.

The quiver supplies new arrow.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.16.22
Prompts: Stress and quiver.
August 15, 2022 at 11:27am
August 15, 2022 at 11:27am
#1036519
Vesuvius

Volcanic eruption,
great plume of smoke,
ash grey billowing,
the mountain spews
dark cloud of doom,
spreads malevolence,
feathers and falls
to cloak the land.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.15.22
Prompt: Plume.
August 14, 2022 at 2:58pm
August 14, 2022 at 2:58pm
#1036489
Fool

The fool in motley array,
em-bell-ished and face painted,
decked in loud colour,
draped in his idiot rags,
performs for the king,
who watches intently
the dance of the halfwit,
aware of the truth thus revealed.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.14.22
Prompt: Motley.
August 13, 2022 at 3:21pm
August 13, 2022 at 3:21pm
#1036448
Desperation at the keyboard!


Partners

Sleep or despair,
the keyboard pillows both,
nestles the mind
somewhere between G and O,
on the way perhaps,
to an exultant shout
of GOTCHA,
as if in victory.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.13.22
Prompt: As per illustration.
August 12, 2022 at 3:22pm
August 12, 2022 at 3:22pm
#1036427
Willow

And after these,
what’s left to be said of willows?

To drape a leafy hand,
a trailer in the stream,
raising a wake to ride the current,
a greeting to the sea.

So speaks the weeping willow tree
of stories long forgotten.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.12.22
Prompt: Weeping willow.
August 11, 2022 at 3:26pm
August 11, 2022 at 3:26pm
#1036387
Storm

Dark thunder clouds gather
as the storm swallows the sun,
the gloom curdles in the shadows
and spreads across the land;
the first fat drops begin to fall
and the wind hurls them sideways,
a jagged ribbon of blue-white light
streaks to earth in a thunderclap.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.11.22
Prompt: Ribbon.
August 10, 2022 at 4:39pm
August 10, 2022 at 4:39pm
#1036350
Lines

The lines upon my face,
engravings of the years,
hieroglyphs of history,
battle scars of life and time,
record of the pain and gain,
imprint of the loss and hurt,
the triumph and armistice,
the mirror knows it all.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 08.10.22
Prompt: Lines.
August 9, 2022 at 11:56am
August 9, 2022 at 11:56am
#1036274
Nailbrush

Strong am I
and strong my bristles,
strong to clean
your nails as whistles.

Hard am I.
e’en harder than nails.
I’ll not bend
nor let dirt leave trails.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb aded
For Express It In Eight, 08.09.22
Prompt: Nailbrush.

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