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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. |
| Flying The child’s aspiration soars, high in the wind above, riding the sharp and limpid light, it bucks and rattles in the swirls and eddies of the streaming air, obedient to the guiding hand, a single string, taut between the kite and the soul below. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 03 2020 Prompt: Kite |
| Heard on the Grapevine Lifeblood of the conspiracy theory, the connection between two events, entirely unrelated but conjoined through a convoluted stream of logic, to link Elvis living on Venus with JFK frolicking in Marilyn’s bed while Hoffa wears a concrete suit. Follow the money, connect the dots. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Oct. 01 2020 Prompt: Connection |
| Folklore Abduction The pied piper cast his spell, enchanting the children of Hamelin and leading them underground. An overreaching revenge for the rat catcher to wreak for non-payment of wages, even in those medieval times when suing was unheard of. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, October 01 2020 Prompt: Enchanting. |
| Time 2 On my return to England, I found myself duty bound to care for my maternal Gran in the last stages of her dementia, a terrible thing that slips through the gaps in life to introduce eternity long before its time. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Sept. 30 2020 Prompt: Time. Note: It’s called Time 2 because it’s not the first poem I’ve written with that title. |
| Towards a Solution To solve this puzzle first you must muzzle an inclination to hustle. A tendency to haste and bustle will only make you bristle. Much better still to whistle on your way to ask dear Myrtle, whose mind’s so very fertile. Line Count: 8 A developing rhyme system For Express It In Eight, Sept. 29 2020 Prompt: Puzzle Note: It works best in an American accent. |
| A Directional Thought Euclid said it’s geometric, just calculate to make it tick. Newton said things will go down, it’s gravity will make you frown. Einstein made it relative, split the atom, get reactive, but me, if I may interrupt, I just want to cheer things up. Line Count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, Sept. 28 2020 Prompt: Up. |
| Hum Summer and the house does hum, the sound of air conditioned. Winter furnace breathes its heat, varies the domestic song. Cosseted by constant comfort, accustomed to its care, we do not hear this service, But notice when it stops. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Sept. 26 2020 Prompt: Hum. |
| Water Colours Neon and silver brushstrokes cavort and play in a water world, construct of a smiling impressionist who floods the sands with light, meanders the wandering weeds through the translucent scene. Oh, calming canvas of clarity painting of dreams, aquarium! Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Sept. 25 2020 Prompt: Water. |
| Fish Supermarkets and shopping, the dread round of boredom, living only to slip away to the seafood counter and the wondrous display, in glass cages and ice, the silver armoured fish, shellfish, creatures of the deep. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Sept. 24 2020 Prompt: Fish |
| Silence Silence is the friend that never chides, the words that don’t need speaking, the absence that still has presence, no answer yet replete with meaning, not rude nor pushy, ever civil, temperate, uncritical and kind, always unnoticed in the crowd, with soothing gifts of peace of mind. Line Count: 8 Free Verse For Express It In Eight, Sept. 23 2020 Prompt: Silence. |
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