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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. |
| Valley of a Thousand Hills I know of a place where the rounded, rolling hills go on forever. Grassed in lush greens and treeless, it’s a dreaming vision of sweet zephyrs and sunlight on the slopes of another Eden, speaking of long afternoons drowsing in the peaceful meadow cast like a sheet over the billowing waves of somnolent earth. There, where the landscape fades from green to faintest blue and the hawk cries distantly from the uttermost heights of air, there, the memory stands ever ready to soothe my troubled soul. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, March 02 2021 Prompt: Hillside. |
| Arrival We came upon the place at nightfall when the lights were coming on in the windows and the sounds of the day were dying, swallowed up in the vast silence of the dark. The streets were empty as we walked them, the shadows deep but not threatening, the murmur of voices behind barred doors and a baby’s cry from the faint glow in a stable. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, March 01 2021 Prompt: Nightfall. |
| Retrospective Memory spins the dreaming web, a world revealed in golden light, places and faces from long ago, there’s comfort in their arms and carefree summers wrap the scene in warmth and sunlight in the trees, days unlimited by time and space, the land of how we were. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 28 2021 Prompt: National Retro Day. |
| The Widening Gyre Energy is movement and movement is the life of the universe, the earth turning on its axis, dancing in the pattern of planets, while the sun interacts with the stars of the galaxy, and all exploding from the centre. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 26 2021 Prompt: The world is always in movement. Note: The title is a quote from W.B. Yeats' poem, The Second Coming. |
| Soon Soon is a word for the patient, its meaning bright with hope, yet laced with disappointment. Soon the kettle will boil, though not if you watch it, and soon you’ll get back to me, though I won’t be holding my breath. And so on and so on and soon. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 25 2021 Prompt: Soon. |
| Male Intuition A day for single tasking seems a pointless institution to the man who concentrates all focus on one thing at a time; he plods undistracted toward the goal, his being intent upon the moment, certain that “multi” is a teamwork word. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 21 2021 Prompt: Single Tasking Day. |
| Neighbourly Reflections When the aliens came they were too different to live in our world. Not carbon-based, they were built on chrome and the plane of their existence was angled sharply to ours. They didn’t stay long. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 19 2021 Prompt: Sculpture of metallic female. |
 Proboscis Monkey How supremely descriptive is the word “bulbous,” its clear relation to things globular quite apparent, abundantly so, as witnessed by there being no better likeness to its meaning than the glorious appendage that is the nose of the Proboscis. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 18 2021 Prompt: Bulbous. |
| By Way of Explanation Tolkien made the point that the phrase, “cellar door,” if spelled, “celador,” was really a beautiful word. If a linguistic scholar as learned as the author The Lord of the Rings trilogy should say so, who am I to disagree with him? And it is easy for me to agree with grammarly.com’s choice of beautiful English words, particularly as “euphoria” is one of my favourites. Many years ago, I was playing an online game called Train Station to pass the time before discovering WdC. When founding my town to be attached to my particular train station, I opted to name the place Euphoria. It struck me as just the type of name a town in the western frontier of America might have chosen. Below is a screen shot of the name emblazoned on my station (yes, it still exists in spite of being neglected for so long).  Euphoria Perhaps there is a town of that name, some spot on a dry and featureless plain that needed to express the hope and vision of its founders against all appearance. It may have seemed impossibly ambitious in those early days when the dust storms and tumble weeds blew through the main street, but now it seems quite apt for a hidden Eden. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 17 2021 Prompt: Euphoria. |
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