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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. |
| The Big Bang The idea was always unlikely apart from being unsightly and had no chance of winning in being the very beginning that all was once just a dot that exploded in this very spot so everything came from nothing - methinks they were merely bluffing. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 07.06.24 Prompt: Picture of contrast in size between the earth and the sun. |
| Resolution It’s not the number of pixels that makes up the mixel; it’s what they must carry individu-ally. What you gain on the swings, is blown on the rings. The whole resolution depends on contribution. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 07.05.24 Prompt: Write a poem of resolution. |
| Being Late Being late has its compensations to add to all our reservations. Despite our famed notoriety it’s well short of impropriety. And though our frames are insubstantial our gains are surely nonfinancial. For now from cares we’re all released advantage lies in being deceased. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 07.04.24 Prompt: Being late. |
| The Moving Finger Writes Signs of the times like hackneyed rhymes, beating their drums as painful thumbs. Some strange message, cryptic passage, autocrat words, compliant herds. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 07.03.24 Prompt: Amusing signs. |
| Empty Out west the land goes on forever in open plains, a vast savanna, no hindrance there to sight or dreams and freedom forms eternal themes. Out there the spirit roams untied, no hindrance to the view applied and emptiness is full of meaning, the soul replete with endless cleaning. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 07.02.24 Prompt: Write an empty poem. |
 Nemesis The curtains billow with the breeze from an open window like sails set in the darkness of a moonless night they caress the stiff form of the high table in attendance sentry to the silent room lit by a beam from an errant streetlight. Evidence of bedtime’s last cocoa ritual of long ago a cup and saucer braves the flow of air and movement a stalwart figure on the lonely height of spotlight frozen suspended time now prepares the waiting fate for action. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 07.01.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Reasons to be Cheerful - Part 94 Tomorrow knows just one day more than what today has figured out. And so I learn from day to day - it seems I’m just an abacus. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.28.24 Prompt: Write a poem about what tomorrow knows. |
| Understanding Understanding knows of what you speak lives in the places that we seek thrives on learning all that’s real pays the bill while others steal Stoops to take the path most humble treads with grace and doesn’t stumble smiles so sadly at man’s errors blunts the teeth of the worst of terrors. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 06.26.24 Prompt: Understanding as the title of the poem. |
| Pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviation knight of the early days, The Little Prince of the upper air, Wind, Sand and Stars aloft, you winged our dreams on high, carried us over the Andes, opened our eyes to vistas new, and died eschewing the ground. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.25.24 Prompt: Pilot. |
 Captions Martha struts the catwalk in the very latest of headgear from Paris. In spite of the mockery, Henry stuck with his ambition to be a turtle. Really, Sandra, you need to come out of your shell. Professor Egbert strides back to the drawing board after the failed test of his new bulletproof armour. Never mind the quality, consider the wonderful Japanese artwork. They warned me that, if I ran for president, I’d have eggs thrown at me. You won’t be laughing when the sky falls on our heads. Go backpacking, they said, go backpacking. Line count: 8 Form: Captions I couldn’t resist For Express It In Eight, 06.24.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
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