Eight-line Poems

Space

Space

Out west there is space,
the open plains, flat, empty and vast,
an expanse of land beneath endless skies,
the towns low and clinging to the earth,
refusing to pierce the horizon with height,
happy with the empty lots
and eternal grass.

There, too, is freedom.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, April 15 2021
Prompt: Write a space poem.