Eight-line Poems

Grasshopper

Grasshopper

Oh, grasshopper of the summer days,
casting aside all care and caution,
to leap with joyous verve and daring,
launched into the bright, confusing wind,
haphazard missile into perilous future,
committed to an unknown landing,
awkward, unplanned and reckless arrival,
kindling the flame for the next adventure.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 03.15.22
Prompt: Choose a word from each of these poems and use them in a poem of your own:

The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead
by John Keats

Wind
by Amy Lowell

Fire
by Dorothea MacKellar