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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. |
| Ghost Ship The moon was bright that night and the fog billowing in the bay when a tall ship with sails furled slipped through the water, a shadow dark, low and threatening, then was gone again in the mists. It may have been a phantom but at masthead flew the Jolly Roger. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.25.21 Prompt: The Dogg’s Barque. |
| Hope Springs Eternal Fresh arrivals from Africa, hungry for the sea, we bought a clapped out car in Wimbledon, picked the closest point on the coast (Littlehampton), drove on winding English roads, at last the sea, flat grey line on the horizon, then the town and a green field, a bank. We rushed to find a shingle beach, a cold sea waveless in the winter wind. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.24.21 Prompt: Coast. |
| Ambition’s End In Tarsapan where desert sands run out and gardens burgeon green towards the sun, the waters of the At’mar spring flowed clear and sweet upon our lips, Obdinagong did pitch his tent, declared no more he’d warring go, lay down beside the bubbling stream to ease his aching limbs. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.23.21 Prompt: Imagine a word and then include it in a poem. |
| Legs Octopus loves the number eight Spider too agrees it’s great Ladybug opts for number six Also ants make it their pick Cats and dogs are sold on four As are cattle, sheep and boar Nonplussed all are men and cuckoo How come we get left with two? Line count: 8 Couplets For Express It In Eight, 06.22.21 Prompt: Write a poem that describes the mind's ability to take a word and make it into a story of meanings and distractions. |
| Day by Day Monday draws the nightly curtain Tuesday throws the windows wide Wednesday finds us working hard Thursday asks a final push Friday laughs and eases back Saturday ope’s a bleary eye Sunday dreams of other places Next week thinks to change the plan. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.22.21 Prompt: Write about the seven days of the week and then put 'em in a nutshell in the last line. |
| Driftwood We found it in the dunes, beached by some storm of long ago, stripped of its bark by the waters, bones sanded and polished, smooth and bleached to perfection, every knot and rift and snag drawn with precision in the grain. We kept it on display, beauty even in death. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.21.21 Prompt: Driftwood. |
 Ode to Johannes Vermeer Vermeer leaves the great and grand occasion to the Rembrandts and van Eycks, draws the light from rain-washed skies, through the lambent gable window, to illumine interior scene, humble serving woman, face aglow, still, silent, innocence reborn in the eternal beauty of everyday. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.19.21 Prompt: Write an ode to a favorite thing |
| For Andrea Again And when we touch, of course it stirs me to my core, but more than this, it brings awareness of why I put my trust in you, familiar now with how you open my very deepest secrets, I have no thought of consequence. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.17.21 Prompt: Tell us about how it feels to touch a loved one |
| Conundrum They crouched down in the trench, heedless of the clinging mud, aware only of the coruscating light in the dark night sky above, like canisters of fire shattered into the vast and empty void, a firework celebration or Great War reenactment? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.16.21 Prompt: Canister and coruscate. |
| Landscape I dream of a place where the hills are like dunes massed in humpback array to the horizon, waves on the oceanic expanse of the land, green as the deep with a blanket of lawn, bright in the sun and blue with distance far off. Overhead, scattered white cotton wool clouds punctuate the sky, white caps upon the sea, a world never changing, expansive, forever. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 06.15.21 Prompt: Dunes. |
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