Eight-line Poems

Rodent Revels

Rodent Revels

The cat being away,
the mice do play,
on ancient gramophone
recordings by the Stones,
not Rolling but Squeaking
(of mouse bands I am speaking),
and so they dance their way
from night until the day.


Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 12.15.22
Prompt: Illustration of mouse dancing to gramophone music.