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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. |
| Journey’s End The road through winter, graded now as we approach the end - a T-junction and (perhaps) a turn for the brighter. ‘Tis about now that we tire, all of us, and snow’s still pretty but cold is wearing us thin; we long for the sun’s return. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 16 2021 Prompt: Photo of a winter street. |
| Of Journeys Sheryl Sandberg offered me a seat on a rocket to who knows where. I did ask but she said it's a secret kept to preserve the adventure of a journey beyond the stars. A moment's thought was enough to decide to turn down the gift. Sheryl's lebensraum is not my problem. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 15 2021 Prompt: "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." ~ Sheryl Sandberg |
 Klipspringer There are some animals it’s a privilege to see, animals that are rarely encountered, through shyness, habitat and common sense, the klipspringer, rock leaper nocturnal, being one, grudging its rare glimpses in the bleak, dry hills, and gone in an instant like the mountain goat of northern climes, its only rival for miraculous feet finding grip on sheer, stony slopes. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 13 2021 Prompt: Bleak. Note: The photo is courtesy of a South African friend. |
| Last Stand I’m a remnant, one of that dwindling band that remembers the world before computers, sliced bread (had to explain the bread knife a while back), and DVDs. It basks in the glow of nostalgia, it’s true, but it was my heyday. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 12 2021 Prompt: Remnant. |
 Archaeology I had this beauty figured for Greek, Minoan or Mycenaean maybe, early at least, the asymmetric tilt so unlike the classic form, but there’s nothing like it in the lists, the only clues a geometric frame around a ram drawn with prehistoric simplicity the sweep of horns so detailed yet wildly abstract. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 11 2021 Prompt: Illustration of urn decoration. |
| A Sea Shanty Dolphins have been rescuing people since the days of the ancient Greeks, one of their deities being Apollo Dolphinus, and so it goes throughout history, dolphins saving us from the sharks. And I must declare, slightly in jest, that especially when anywhere near the sea, everyone needs a porpoise. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 10 2021 Prompt: Purpose. |
| Right or Wrong One feels sorry for them, the right handers, never learning beyond one side, always the same hand extended, no matter the task. Lefties however use whichever serves best, laughing at sinister and dark. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 09 2021 Prompt: The Left Hand of Darkness. |
 Domboshawa The humped, bare granite hills, like whale backs scattered in the sea of veld, are laccoliths, igneous intrusions into the strata since worn away leaving the grey landscapes of a former age. There are often caves and overhangs, eroded by millenia of water, painted with the lives of vanished peoples. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 08 2021 Prompt: Cave. |
| Magnificent Obsession The storm chaser rides the plains, on the trail of the big one, he scans the radar plots, alert to the swirl of circulating air, the seed of the tornado, feeding on the adrenaline driven through his being by the tempest. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 07 2021 Prompt: Photograph of approaching storm. |
| Childhood When the world was young my father and I set out many times to climb the mountain, walking upward through the forest at its foot ‘midst the light dappled by the filtering leaves across clear cold streams of whisky hue, picking mushrooms in the mulch of eternity, we never came to the summit. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, February 05 2021 Prompt: Dapple. |
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