Eight-line Poems

Piccard's Trieste

Piccard’s Trieste

Down in the darkest deep
in midnight marine murk
the nightmare creatures sleep
and glowing monsters lurk
two men in a steel ball
silent in listening hush
are dreaming of sunlight recalled
and the word they avoid is “crush.”


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 01.10.24
Prompt: On January 23, 1960, Navy Lt. Donald Walsh and Jacques Piccard descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (the lowest place on earth) in the submersible the Trieste.