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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. |
| End of Empire Barbarians at the gate, late for the party, demanding entrance without invitation and looking rather ugly. Nervous usher asks, “Whom shall I say is calling?” “Tell ‘em the Huns,” says Attila. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 12 2021 Prompt: Gate. |
| Upping the Ante “Have a guess,” said Einstein. “Oh I couldn’t,” I replied and he responded, “What’s the worst that could happen?” I shrugged. “You’re the scientist.” Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 11 2021 Prompt: Guess (Oh go on, you can tell me). |
| Symmetry The arch, up and over, the stream tamed to a reflective calm below, water held in a geometric clasp and the humped bridge in the air and under water, a perfect mirrored O, all in the soft, pastel colours of autumn, nature and artifice in harmony. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 09 2021 Prompt: Photograph of Japanese bridge. |
| Perspective The urchin in a Rio slum, the pampered son in mansion, barge boy in his floating home, daughter of the tribal chief in grassy house upon the veld, or Papuan child of jungle, all regard their upbringing as dull and unremarkable. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 08 2021 Prompt: I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. – Susan Sontag. |
| A Middling Song The fact is I was born in the middle Of England and maybe this is why I’m on the fence and in the middle Of the roads I take, low or high. Of all Ages I prefer the Middle, But the one in the middle Sings. “Hey diddle diddle,” ‘Cos he’s just a pretty face.* Line Count: 8 Oh, it has rhymes but it’s a bit of a mess. For Express It In Eight Prompt: Middle. Note: A quote from a Manfred Mann song of the sixties. |
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| Bubble Trouble Bubble gum and bubble boy, double trouble and Russian rouble, humble bumble might stumble and crumble rumble, tumble, mumble, grumble fumble, jumble, my brain’s gone numble. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 05 2021 Prompt: Bubble illustration. |
| Plant 2 Oh, deep in thy vegetable heart of matter, what humous thoughts grow thou? Tomorrow you feed on their rotting flesh, though they may pluck thee now. Under a spreading chestnut tree, this wordsmith found his treasure; beneath the aged, tangled roots, lies wisdom beyond measure. Line Count: 8 Rhymed abcb defe For Express It In Verse, January 04 2021 Prompt: Beneath. Notes: The first verse is over 50 years old, having been written in my youth as a complete departure from my usual style. It was reminded to me by the word “beneath” which made me think of roots and things underground. The second verse was added to justify including the first and as an echo of Longfellow’s poem, The Village Blacksmith. |
| Cabbages Newly arrived from the warmth of Africa, we went for a walk in the crisp, cold winter of Kent, breath steaming in the sharp air. Crossing a ploughed field with only the stumps of cabbages showing above ground, the crunch of our footsteps on the frozen soil awoke us to a new continent, a homeland as old as the hills and as fresh as now. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, January 03 2021 Prompt: Warmth and/or crunchy. |
| Mulberry Like blackberries but sweeter, dark fruits hang in profusion midst the leaves of the mulberry tree, tempting and staining the tongues of its adventurous climbers, rising through its branches. The silkworm, too, numbered among its gifts. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, December 31 2020 Prompt: SOMETHING YOU ENJOY |
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