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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. |
| Point of View Straight and true, that’s me, though never a ruler, and the essence of speed, all things being measured by me. So imagine my humiliation at this bending and refraction, this capture and mutation, in the heart of a stone of earth. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, April 07 2021 Prompt: Illustration of a diamond. |
| A Stroll in the Grounds “Shall we,” enquired the Duchess, “take a gentle amble to the gate? To wander past the rabbit hutches and see the balloons inflate, there would be merriment indeed. ‘Tis my dearest wish, my heart.” I answered with much speed, “Oh, let it be, forthwith let us depart.” Line count: 8 Rhyme scheme ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, April 06 2021 Prompt: Amble. |
| Prospector’s Ship Comes In I’ll stake my claim and so exact the most from this, my richest find, the prize of years of toil at the masthead of my ship of fate, my endurance being the stays that held my course so true. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, April 05 2021 Prompt: Exact, Claim, Stay. Note: Sorry, could not resist the temptation to use each word in its alternative sense. |
| Denial’s a River in Africa Though awful shy, I cannot deny today’s prompts have me scratching, motivation is not matching, inspiration on vacation, I must, with trepidation, throw in the towel in consonants and vowels. Line count: 8 Rhyme scheme aabbccdd For Express It In Eight, April 02 2021 Prompt: Deny. |
| Spherical Travel Globe of the earth, multicoloured, familiar shapes, a world revealed, feast for the imagination, turns, spins, revolves to reveal new nations, lands of wondrous visions, names exotic, redolent of discovery, so the finger traces journeys unknown but as great, perhaps, as the reality. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, April 01 2021 Prompt: Illustration of a globe. |
| The Meaning of Castle Kenilworth Castle, a ruin yet still imposing, a curtain wall encompassing, still complete, chapel and residence, lodge and stables. the lake, now drained but the walls frowning on its former shores, just fields for grazing cows, and in the centre, square, immense and dark, the towering keep, one wall blasted by Cromwell’s cannons but resolute, strong and lasting. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, March 30 2021 Prompt: Tower. |
| Conclusion Oh yes, I’m absolutely sure, quite definitely that’s how it was, at least, there was little doubt, had to be over fifty fifty true, more than possible, we all agreed, it looked as though it might be, we couldn’t rule it out, uncertain as we were. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, March 30 2021 Prompt: Uncertain. |
| Kom der Revolution Out there behind the shed, hidden from the ordered garden, the kingdom of the wild waits, biding its time, the bramble, weeds and ivy, daisy, dog rose, counting the days in patience, foreshadowing their renaissance, saplings in search of a forest. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, Match 27 2021 Prompt: Weed Appreciation Day |
| The Glorious Pocket The pocket is a wondrous thing, it is my constant friend. It frees my hands from all that bling, lets them mend, send, defend. Two pockets, better far than one, and many is sheer heaven, I have a jacket made alone from pockets numbered eleven. Line count: 8 Rhyme scheme abab cdcd For Express It In Eight, March 26 2021 Prompt: Pocket. |
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