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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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November 30, 2023 at 8:40am
November 30, 2023 at 8:40am
#1060325
Juice

Never mind the juice, Bruce,
just savour the flavour;
I know that you are loose, Bruce,
but give the peach a waiver.

I know you do not care for
the how and why and wherefore,
but the dripping from your chin
should not cause unholy din.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab ccdd
For Express It In Eight, 11.30.23
Prompt: Juice.

November 29, 2023 at 10:54am
November 29, 2023 at 10:54am
#1060285
Horizontal

Out there the horizon is flat,
as straight as though honed
by a giant plane in the grip
of some vast carpenter.

Yet even here, on the Great Plains,
there are secret pits and dimples,
hidey holes in the emptiness,
where the sky closes in above.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 11.29.23
Prompt: Write a horizontal poem.

November 28, 2023 at 7:14am
November 28, 2023 at 7:14am
#1060245
Smartly dressed mannequin apparently about town.


Mannequin

Mannequin about the town,
spruce and chic in understatement,
jaunty hat over one eye pulled down,
and jacket loose in fashionwise abatement,
make up stark in colours prime,
stands she tall among the crowd,
haughty conqueror of time,
reflected in her window proud.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 11.28.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

November 27, 2023 at 6:59am
November 27, 2023 at 6:59am
#1060195
Pardon?

Oh, nothing, just forget it,
it drifts away so let it,
importance it had none,
and what is done, is done,
a silly comment really,
if we regard it fairly,
let us not dismember
the thing I don’t remember.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 11.27.23
Prompt: Just forget it.

November 26, 2023 at 3:54pm
November 26, 2023 at 3:54pm
#1060167
Alice

Alice went down the rabbit hole,
I think it was a rabbit’s - not a mole’s,
had a drink and nearly drowned,
met the queen but wasn’t crowned,
invited to a mad hatter’s party,
moved on from there and rather smartly,
bandied words with a caterpillar,
and got back home in time for dinner.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 11.26.23
Prompt: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

November 25, 2023 at 10:53am
November 25, 2023 at 10:53am
#1060088
A solitary house on a rugged island.


Isolation

Erosion sawed off
a piece of land for us
hollowed it out
like a hand cupping the house
while all around
cliffs fell vertical
to a violet sea
and we were left alone.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 11.25.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

November 24, 2023 at 11:13am
November 24, 2023 at 11:13am
#1060037
Eyes peering from behind Venetian blinds.


Covert

Venetian blinds,
the slatted kind,
for secret minds
in stealth entwined.

A place to hide,
and see outside,
both high and wide,
while not descried.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aaaa bbbb
For Express It In Eight, 11.24.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

November 22, 2023 at 3:25pm
November 22, 2023 at 3:25pm
#1059950
Life Lessons

Live free or die
is all the reason why
the grand experiment
to be no detriment
in every human soul
the finest of our role
that from the depths we’re lifted
once we with life are gifted.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 11.22.23
Prompt: Simple rules for living.

November 21, 2023 at 7:47am
November 21, 2023 at 7:47am
#1059870
Ark

Young Noah,
an uncertain rower,
used motors outboard
when pressing onward
with the ship, but Ham, his son,
who ran the zoo with a sense of fun,
was popular with very few -
his demeanour was de meaner of de two.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 11.21.23
Prompts: Zoo, demeanour, ship.

November 20, 2023 at 1:48pm
November 20, 2023 at 1:48pm
#1059828
From Hippy to Snippy

I used to be cool
when cool was the rule,
and laid back
was paid back
with honour from fools.

But now to be trendy,
a modus vivendi,
I think I’d rather play pool.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabba cca
For Express It In Eight, 11.20.23
Prompt: I used to be cool.


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