The second of my collections of poems written for "Express It In Eight." |
As usual these days, I choose blog format because it offers more space for the work. |
Posters Art deco, so briefly king, revived in my heyday, Alphonse Mucha a hero and Beardsley pen and ink. I made my contribution in posters with a dash of Lautrec, advertising pop concerts and stolen for students’ digs. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.05.24 Prompt: Illustration of art deco poster. |
Temptation 2 Baking bread, the warmest smell, wraps itself within your being, curls up cosy in your soul, sets the taste buds tingling. Fills your dreams with radiant heat, tips the tongue with crusted charm, begs the butter basted well, drips the jowls with anticipation. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.03.24 Prompt: The aroma of baking bread. |
Fireflies Fireflies are punctuation on the page of summer nights intermittent semaphore in a language of lights Blink their secret messages upon the darkness blind drift in silent flighted scrawl their magic to impart. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.01.24 Prompt: Fireflies. |