Eight-line Poems 2

Wishes

Wishes

Aladdin’s lamp, bright and burnished,
shining with the hopes of many,
who rubbed and polished the surface
with demands beyond a penny.

And what if one day the genie,
awoken in the lamp so amplified,
should issue forth and grant the wish -
what chance the dream be satisfied?


Line count: 8
Rhymed abcb
For Express It In Eight, 04.24.25
Prompt: Write a poem about a wish fulfilled.