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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. |
| Interface Hole in my shoe, like a window in the universe, the world outside filtering in, life fluttering past,, leaves in the wind, filling the room with images, my soul as drenched as my sodden sock. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 11 2020 Prompt: Window |
| Fear of Falling High in the empty air, he walks the narrow way, eyes fixed on the goal, all the universe reduced to a single destination. Concentration becomes all, though he will say the wire is a matter of balance alone. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 10-11 2020 Prompt: Balance |
| The Virtues of Vocal Sandpaper Gravel-voiced Lee Marvin, trapped in the fluff of Paint Your Wagon, was required to sing a song maintaining that he was born under a Wandering Star. The result went to number one, in the UK at least, in nineteen seventy, making Marvin a one hit wonder. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 09 2020 Prompt: Gravel Note: In case you don’t believe me - |
| Eight for Eight An int’resting beast, the eight-line poem, it teaches the art of brevity. Get it done, get it said and take it home, no pausing even for levity. Or go on at length to your heart’s content, then out with the knives and the cleaver, and reduce the thing to say what you meant, without all the waffling forever. Line Count: 8 Rhymed ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, October 08 2020 No prompt, just because. |
| The Romance of Ruins Near my home town stands Kenilworth Castle, once the strongest fortress in England, a ruin now but still impressive, especially in its great, square block of a Norman keep, that final redoubt within the encircling walls. Below the keep stands a wall, eroded now to a handy seat on which to rest and there, on the stones, are the masons’ marks of long ago. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 08 2020 Prompt: Keep |
| Apple Years ago, when I was young, I came upon the perfect apple, shape so satisfying and true, near symmetric but skewed just enough to avoid cliché, colour red and surface shining, no viewing angle found it wanting. It tasted good, too. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 07 2020 Prompt: Apple Note: Absolutely true story, I promise! |
| One of Those Days Got all in a tangle today My up’s gone all sideways My down’s out on strike The blues came out yellow The salad’s overcooked My budgie’s gone walkabout My aunt’s come to stay It’s all in a tangle today Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 06 2020 Prompt: Tangle. |
| Coventry’s River My home town has a river, though you wouldn’t know it, so shy and humble it is, rising as a crystal spring in a field a short walk from my ancestral home, carving itself a boundary ditch through parkland to the city’s edge, then underground, unseen, until it rises in a brief canal hidden in a back alley and so, eventually, to the sewage works, to pay its dues and be released and so become belovèd Sherbourne. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 5 2020 Prompt: River. Note: The name Sherbourne is said to derive from Scir Burna, "clear stream" in Old English. |
| Thanks My choice to write three prompts suggested, my gratitude for inspiration that somehow keeps me interested and so ensures participation. For Eight has been so solid a hit, it joins my daily morning round, the prompts so simple yet so fit. For Solace let our cheers resound! Line Count: 8 Free Verse, rhyme ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, October 03 2020 Prompt: My choice! |
| Listen Listen, finger raised to still the air, listen, ruler slammed upon the desk, listen, earnest interjection quiet, listen, don’t join the slogan-chanting, listen, now the bedtime story starts, listen, two ears but one mouth only, listen, the request so rarely heard, listen, and wait for wisdom’s whispers. Line Count: 8 Free Verse, lines of nine syllables For Express It In Eight, October 03 2020 Prompt: Listen |
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