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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. |
| Radioactive Man Radioactive Man, bitten by a spider quite ordinary, climbs no buildings, spins no webs, but falls from ceilings and, if you close your eyes, glows in the dark. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.12.22 Prompt: ”Radioactive Man” (Season 7, Episode 2 of The Simpsons). |
| As I Imagined But… Significant places assume a greatness relative to the history they hosted. Reality reduces them, shrinking to fit our awe inside a smaller package. Trafalgar Square is tiny, a mere model of the dreams its fame fostered, and in Dallas the same is true, the Grassy Knoll less than a hill. Line count: 8 Free verse Dor Express It In Eight, 04.11.22 Prompt: Grassy. |
| Wanderer In the morning the wanderer seeks new vision, rides the tides of desire, feeds the soul of change. Now, as evening shadows deepen, he roams the silent past, treads the paths long gone and settles for the memory. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.09.22 Prompt: Choose a word that begins with W, make it the title of your poem, and then write your poem. |
| Warning Tread wary as you go and take things very slow; I tell you what I know from pain to heel and toe. The land has set its traps, its vigilance won’t lapse; you might escape perhaps, but likely take your raps. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaa bbbb, 6 syllables per line For Express It In Eight, 04.08.22 Prompt: Photo of barrel cacti littering the desert floor. |
| Bush Fire Man at the edge of the fire break, waiting, sure that this will halt the ravenous flames, he stands, hands in pockets, face to the blast. This fire will die as the bare land turns its back, dry to desire. Beyond, the blackened face of earth will green with new growth in days. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.07.22 Prompt: Illustration of man watching bush fire. |
| Hero Resolute, steadfast and true, Horatius holds the bridge, Etruscan assault thwarted, Until Rome stands ready. Who today bars the way when the hordes arise and fingers hover ready to initiate the end? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.06.22 Prompt: Resolute. |
| Numbers Well, that’s a relief. I’ve been searching for safety and now I find it resides in numbers; so I shall mathematician be, immersed in digits evermore, protected by the figures’ power and, for my pet, an adder! Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.05.22 Prompt: There is safety in numbers. |
| The Lad, Vlad At last a day for Vlad the Evader, like the Impaler but greater, the very opposite of raider; he arrives, but later and later, having taken the long route round each and every delay, for questions he gives not a hoot, it’s Walk Around Things Day today! Line count: 8 Rhymed ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, 04.04.22 Prompt: Walk Around Things Day. |
| Poets Poets don’t have to be nice; they are often as cold as ice, throw tantrums, endlessly grumble, be cranky and talk in a mumble, turn moody and all antisocial, like children they’re often precocial. As long as they dredge up the words, we’ll forgive them their actions absurd. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabbcc dd For Express It In Eight, 04.03.22 Prompt: Dredge. |
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