Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
The bare face of the mountain
rises above in naked disdain
for the lives of mere mortals,
assembled like attendants below,
in awe appropriate
and shadowed humility,
scrabbling in the scree
of the peak’s exfoliation.
Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 04.14.23
Prompt: Scree.
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