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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. |
| Sculptor We know, from uncompleted works, that Michelangelo carved straight through to the finished statue without preparatory chipping. He saw the complete work and merely released it from the stone. Perhaps that is how we live. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, December 04 2020 Prompt: Carve. |
| Finally Enough Age is wisdom, they tell me, and I can go with that, but how old must I be to avoid all stupidity and never, ever fall flat? It seems to me that finally to have enough of one, must be the end of t’other. Line Count: 8 Free verse but it rhymes sometimes. For Express It In Eight, December 03 2020 Prompt: Enough (and) or Finally. |
| Paying the Piper Shed no tear for the turkey’s fate when payday for security arrives; the contract is quite clear on that. Freedom from extinction has a price but we have chosen a different path and, on the day the last of us releases our grip on forever, turkeys must start another search for a suitable protector. Line Count 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 26 2020 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Ladybird Ladybird or ladybug, her dress a bright crimson scattered with the black dots that define her variant and, could she speak in a tiny ladylike voice, I have no doubt she’d ask, “Are there aphids still for tea?” Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 25 2020 Prompt: Ladybird illustration. Note: The last line is an obscure reference to a recording of a story by Peter Sellers in his Goon period. His original quotation that provided my inspiration was, “And is there honey still for tea?” |
| Feeling of the Day And I, ancient of days, with my face crumpled into a parody of the past and my head spinning with memories of yesterday, washed up on a beach with little in my hands but time and a keyboard. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 24 2020 Prompt: Any or all of ancient, crumpled and/or spinning. |
| Contrary Beauty is in the eye of the besotted, elegance is not attractive to some, pretty is, too often, not enough, gorgeous can be too much, too soon. So wayward is the human heart, there are times when it is lost for reasons incomprehensible, and awkward the catalyst of love. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 23 2020 Prompt: Awkward. |
| In Praise of Geography A map is the playground of the imagination, the starting point for adventurous dreams, the guide book to all that is beyond today. The shapes of coastlines, rivers, mountains, combine to lure us into explorations, the names provide the spark for intuition to build another world from hints and whispers. We are the legend that explains the journey. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 21-22 2020 Prompt: Map. |
| Parallel Inspiration As medieval cathedrals grew taller their walls began to collapse with the weight of the stones above. Architects created the flying buttress to prop up the walls from outside. Nature, while inventing tall trees towering from thin tropical soils, bent genes to form the buttress root. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 20 2020 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Give Us This Day... Bread, the essence of living, foundation of all food, warmest smell in the world when baking, still hot from the oven, it melts the butter and fills our bellies, the seed of civilisation. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 19 2020 Prompt: Bread. |
| From Mighty Avo Stones... I’ve never planted a tree but I have a dream of it; to one day be rich enough to take an avocado from the tree in my father’s Zimbabwe garden, return to the frozen north, and build a tall greenhouse in which to plant my avo seed. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, November 18 2020 Prompt: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Chinese proverb. |
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