Eight-line Poems

Spice

Spice

Understanding,
being rooted in experience,
means here one thing,
and another hence.

“Spice” may speak to one
of oriental taste;
to a Dune fan a tale is spun
of purple eyes in the endless waste.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 10.27.22
Prompt: Spice.
Note: It’s wrong to limit one’s audience but I cannot resist this shout out to all readers of Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune.