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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
The number of poems enforces the use of blog format with ten poems per page.
March 28, 2022 at 9:33am
March 28, 2022 at 9:33am
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Compensation

Counting off the decades of life,
seven seems unlikely,
an unexpected surprise
in supposed decline.

But inexplicable
this flowering
of verse in old age,
signing off.



Line count: 8
Free verse, syllables 8.6.7.5.6.4.5.3
For Express It In Eight, 03.28.22
Prompt: Decline.


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