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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. |
| Statistics Be careful what you wish for, be careful what you say, the thing you are describing may seem another way - Olympus Mons may tower, the highest of all mounts, but Mars don’t have no sea, so what level do you count? Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 11.30.24 Prompt: The tallest known mountain in our solar system, Olympus Mons, is found on Mars. Its base is the size of Arizona, and the highest point is over 16 miles tall. (Earth’s Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.) |
| November November, the conman, creeps in with a smile says the word “balmy” and gentle his style. Down through the dwindling days his smile fades away, and bitter his final glance, cold in the end his stay. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 11.28.24 Prompt: Write a poem that personifies the month of November. |
| Ether I'm being consumed by the ether dispersed into particles in space spread thinly through the universe and dissolved in insignificance. I knew a man who took ether inhaling it in huge gulps but staying conscious yet in ecstacy unbound - they say it murders brain cells. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.27.24 Prompt: I’m being consumed by the ether. |
| Neither Come sit on the fence with me, the finest of places to be, for both sides you’ll always see, and of bias you’re forever free. Don’t choose either this or that, and be neither slender nor fat, be both bowler and at the bat, all because of where you are sat! Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaa bbbb For Express It In Eight, 11.25.24 Prompt: Write an either/or poem. |
| Aquamarine Aqua and marine water of the ocean that clear cool colour of light reflected from sand under the sea flickering between blue and green aquamarine. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.22.24 Prompt: Aquamarine. |
| Accuracy The mot juste will give you a boost and add to your writing the meaning most biting. Don’t be in a hurry, no need to scurry, your real satisfaction comes from precise exaction. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.21.24 Prompt: Write a poem of accuracy. |
| Seriously Many a true word said in jest and many a lie as well perhaps to be silent is best with nothing at all to sell. The fact is we hide from each other afraid to show who we are or go to a great deal of bother to speak with intent to do harm. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 11.19.24 Prompt: Joke. |
| Of Islands I saw a man who did complain at loneliness his deepest pain yet while he sat there all alone he set up fences made of stone Though his eyes were inward turned it was himself that he had spurned for how could others love the man who knew himself the bogeyman? Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.18.24 Prompt: No man is an island. |
| Takeaway Bring on the curry, Murray, but do not worry in your hurry lest, scatter-brained in all your flurry, you get it from a pub in Surrey. The lengthy wait for delivery would overstretch forgivery and leave us all a-shivery and I, for one, quite snivery. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaa bbbb For Express It In Eight, 11.17.24 Prompt: Write a poem about a spicy food. |
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