Eight-line Poems

Eight for Eight

Eight for Eight

An int’resting beast, the eight-line poem,
it teaches the art of brevity.
Get it done, get it said and take it home,
no pausing even for levity.

Or go on at length to your heart’s content,
then out with the knives and the cleaver,
and reduce the thing to say what you meant,
without all the waffling forever.


Line Count: 8
Rhymed ababcdcd
For Express It In Eight, October 08 2020
No prompt, just because.