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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.
July 7, 2023 at 11:58am
July 7, 2023 at 11:58am
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Twang

Is the present really tense?
It depends upon what’s past
and all the times that we lacked sense,
whenever our fate we cast.

Thus we end up tautly strung,
like ghee-tars over-tuned,
another notch, an added rung,
and so our future’s ruined.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 07.07.23
Prompt: Write a tense poem.


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