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. |
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. |
The Road The road goes ever on and on JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings On and on it ever goes, the road on high and way down low, from where you are, exactly here, o’er hill and vale and far and near. It wanders off to utmost north, then turns around and sallies forth to sunny south and far off west, and to the east but home is best. Line count: 8 Rhyming couplets For Express It In Eight, 01.24.23 Prompt: Write a road poem. |
Party Farewell to toil and trouble, come, celebrate with me, for work my troubles doubled, and suddenly I’m free Let’s make a reckless party, all happiness and glee, and raise our glasses hearty, come celebrate with me. Line count: 8 Quatrains rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 01.23.23 Prompt: Reason to have a party - celebrate quitting your job. |
Fairer Ground Never been on a roller coaster, hope I never will; of thrills and spills I’m not a boaster and take my pleasures still. You can say that I should brave the dare, throw caution out the door, but safety takes a little care - that’s why I’m seventy-four! Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 01.22.23 Prompt: Blueprint of a roller coaster. |
Incomprehensible Mini mini pondi cherry, gubby gubby mandrake call, feely round the grubstake merry, dough do tink it thyme to fall? Cast upon di greely vogan, sue it mek di butter sigh, argly till a bitter bogan, menny day do pass me by. Line count: 8 Quatrains For Express It In Eight, 01.20.23 Prompt: Incomprehensible. |