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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. |
| Walking Song Pedestrian walks where others run pedestrian thinks along age old lines pedestrian wanders in rain and sun pedestrian shuns the oddest rhymes pedestrian claims the right of way pedestrian loves the straight and narrow pedestrian dreams that fashion stays pedestrian greets his neighbour fellow. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.12.25 Prompt: Write a pedestrian poem. |
| Cheers Cheers spill from the lips before we take first sips and cheers rend the air to greet the winning pair while “cheers” serve as thanks among the British ranks but a warm and steaming drink cheers us when on the brink. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.11.25 Prompt: Cheers! |
| Eskimo The eskimo, as you very well know, has changed his name in a moment of fame and inuit he’s become to the educated some. But still he gets cold feet and shakes a leg when it’s time to eat. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.10.25 Prompt: Get cold feet, shake a leg. |
| Learning You may not wish to know this it may interrupt your bliss but knowledge is a useful tool unless you’re just a fool for education lights the way ahead the path continues till you’re dead and snares await you in the dark so listen when I tell you, “Hark!” Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.09.25 Prompt: Write an informative poem. |
| Sleep Now I lay me down to sleep in hope of slumbers long and deep and if my dreams on me should creep their price would always be too cheap but if the nightmares too should seep with ominous sound and future’s beep I ask your hand my safety keep until my eyes on dawn doth peep. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 04.08.25 Prompt: Use these words in your poem - deep, seep, peep. |
| Rhyme Time There are those who say that a moose is an animal of very little use while others maintain the papoose will always lead to a truce but the gold is just in the caboose since that’s where they store all the juice and the comments of a passing goose are invariably somewhat loose. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 04.06.25 Prompt: Write a loosey-goosey poem. |
| Directions The road to nowhere is long or as short as a single pace, sometimes for the maddened throng and for the loner bereft of grace. We choose the path to our destruction the winding way, the direct route, with companions of our own selection or all alone if that should suit. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.05.25 Prompt: Everyone’s journey is different. |
| Crooked And what indeed are laws but society’s claws protecting just the rich while I am in the ditch? So I steal and borrow my desires to follow my god’s the same as theirs ensuring still my share. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb syllables 6 per line For Express It In Eight, 04.03.25 Prompt: Write a poem from the perspective of a criminal. |
| Fingerprints Betrayed by the whorls of their own individuality imprinted with the marks of their crime these patterns pointing fingers at perpetrators resolving to self confession in time. Oh, how ironic that the means of squeezing the trigger should now be the witness sublime and all alibis rendered suspect and false in these admissions of presence and crime. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb dbeb For Express It In Eight, 04.02.25 Prompt: Two fingerprints holding hands. |
| Muted The skies disguised their fabled blue in cloudy grey baptised the sun now masked from breaking through with leaden shadows cast. The world’s a softer quiet place in misty day’s embrace. Line count: 8 Rhymed abacbc dd For Express It In Eight, 04.01.25 Prompt: Write about disguise. |
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