Eight-line Poems

Joinery

Joinery

It may be the duty of glue to join
one to another and this to that,
a carpenter’s emissary of unity,
the shipwright’s hold on plain sailing,
a bond to make and to mend,
the go-between to bring together.
But the weld makes them both
like one as they share each other.


Line Count: 8
Free Verse
For Express It In Eight, January 25 2021
Prompt: Glue, Join and Duty.
Note: Many years ago, I had a hobby of building slot cars from scratch. This would not have been possible had I not discovered a polystyrene glue that actually melted the component parts together, rather than just holding on to them through its own strength.