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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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November 18, 2023 at 8:24am
November 18, 2023 at 8:24am
#1059679
Empty robes placed in a vista of fjord and sunshine.}


Alzheimers

These rags would indicate presence,
though lacking that certain essence,
they drape an empty mimicry
of being, much less than simile,
still claims a space within the scene,
solidity quite unforeseen,
yet turns its back upon the world,
its vacancy upon us hurled.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 11.18.23
Prompt: As per illustration.

November 17, 2023 at 11:03am
November 17, 2023 at 11:03am
#1059630
2023 Quill Nominee2023 Quill Finalist


Awareness

Awareness lies like an invisible cloak on innocent shoulders,
it drapes, a weightless film on the life of the newborn,
and ties the cord of belonging round the neck of understanding,
opens the eyes of expectation to past, present and future,
stirs the dust of our passing with the wake of being,
clogs with the grime of the tallied years, the edges of memory,
grows heavy with cares and worries and fears of the self,
wears thin at last as the fading light hides the last of its sheen.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 11.17.23
Prompt: Write a poem about awareness.


November 15, 2023 at 8:16am
November 15, 2023 at 8:16am
#1059514
Partners

A troll is to a bridge
as cold is to a fridge,
it’s all about a purpose,
a shell must have its tortoise,
a cloud’s in need of rain,
a bath will have its drain,
events do have their time,
and poems sometimes rhyme.



Line count: 8
Rhymed couplets
For Express It In Eight, 11.15.23
Prompt: Picture of a troll under a bridge.

November 14, 2023 at 7:18am
November 14, 2023 at 7:18am
#1059472
A Clear Poem

Look there, where the light reflects upon the page,
you might not see it from that angle,
imagine that it’s hidden from limelight on the stage,
don’t grasp it - better that it’s wangled.

Try squinting and gaze into the distance,
apprehension requires that you intuit,
so much depends upon the happenstance,
the problem being you can see through it!



Line cont: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 11.14.23
Prompt: Write a clear poem.

November 13, 2023 at 6:35am
November 13, 2023 at 6:35am
#1059415
Knock Knock

Knock knock, comes the familiar sound,
someone at the door it seems.
A second chance on a hopeful round,
or landlord come to end your dreams?

Ed McMahon with stupendous prize,
salesman with some life enhancer?
Possibilities before your eyes -
get up, man, and go to answer.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 11.13.23
Prompt: Knock.

November 12, 2023 at 7:28am
November 12, 2023 at 7:28am
#1059360
Carpe Diem

To meditate
upon predicate
is to procrastinate
beyond the ultimate.

Be bold
and not old,
completely sold
whate'er may unfold.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aaaa bbbb
For Express It In Eight, 11.12.23
Prompt: Meditate.

November 11, 2023 at 6:27am
November 11, 2023 at 6:27am
#1059295
Weather Report

There will come soft rain,
in these British Isles, that’s a given,
though not at all a pain,
nor reason to give in,

the climate being temperate,
and gentle in its moods,
not some dehydrated emirate
with sweaty attitudes.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 11.11.23
Prompt:
There Will Come Soft Rain by Sara Teasdale.

November 10, 2023 at 10:31am
November 10, 2023 at 10:31am
#1059251
Blue

When the world turned blue.
saturated in shadow and gloom,
the cows, at first befuddled
that all had become so muddled,
held a meeting to discuss
if blue food should be a fuss,
but Daisy declared that grass
was grass and deserved a pass.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 11.10.23
Prompt: Cows under a surreal blue sky.

November 5, 2023 at 6:47am
November 5, 2023 at 6:47am
#1058932
Sliced green peppers looking like faces.


A Singing Sensation

That singing quintet
(acapella to the core),
Five Green Peppers,
so cool and even more,
available on diskette,
harmonies top drawer,
and all are high steppers,
a guaranteed encore.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abcbabcb
For Express It In Eight
As per illustration.

November 4, 2023 at 11:40am
November 4, 2023 at 11:40am
#1058880
Good Old C.S.

Clive Staples Lewis -
no matter what your excuse is,
if you haven’t read his books,
you deserve all kinds of looks
for being too old for sense,
just lost in a forest too dense,
and too young to believe
what everyone else can perceive.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 11.04.23
Prompt: "Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.” ― C.S. Lewis


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