Eight-line Poems

Daydreaming

Daydreaming

If I keep my attention on far away
when what matters is here and now,
if I gaze through the window
and ignore your valuable lesson,
if I seem distracted and elsewhere
in the midst of gloom and doom,
it’s only that my eyes are fixed
on another world entirely.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, January 15 2021
Prompt: Daydream.
Notes: Almost too much inspiration from today’s two prompts, Distance and Daydream. Both make me think of these: