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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. |
| Mr Kazanjian In Africa, a café was a food store, often without beverages. You would have to befriend the Armenian grocer, be invited to his house, before he’d serve you thick, hot Turkish coffee with a chaser of water in a glass. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.24.22 Prompt: Café. |
| Vortex The snail, retiring in his mobile home, can paint a trail down each and every stair. But, failing this, for fun, the bannister can be his spiral route to gentle, curled up sleep. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.23.22 Prompt: Photo of spiral staircase. |
  Bridging Reverie Suspension drooping from the clouds, suspended indeed in an arc of pendulous swaying in the void, bridge or hammock undecided. Can’t I lever a cantilever, swooping from hand to hand in an engineer’s dream of spans and balance? Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.22.22 Prompt: Illustrations of hammock and bridge. |
| Nursing Home He waits in a chair by the window, distant, silent and isolate, his eyes empty as they consider another world, a forgotten memory now recalled in the growing dusk, as the others recede from sight. And they, mindful of their turn, allow him space. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.21.22 Prompt: 1. Invent a word. 2. Define your made-up word, 3. Use the new word in your 8-line poem! Note: The new word is “isolate” used as an adjective rather than a verb. It means a quality of being separated from others. The difference is in the pronunciation, the adjective being sounded as “I-soh-lut” as opposed to the verb’s “I-soh-layt.” |
 Esmé For Esmé - with Love and Squalor. Oh, enigmatic title, giving no hint of the world inside so understated a cover, words in that clear, crystal style of the late J.D. Fitting, as it happens, for a tale of the Glass family. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.20.22 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by titles and/or illustrated covers. |
 Dawn Treader To sail into the Utter East, to tread the dawn in its bright morning, to greet the stars fallen to earth, to see the golden statue underwater, to hear the Dufflepuds at arms, and tread the dark halls of silence, these are the dreams beguiling childhood, these are the worlds to feed a soul. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.19.22 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by titles and/or illustrated covers.  |
| The Sandman In dark of night he slips the latch, to creep through shadows to your room, with sleeping spell and dreams to match, while you lie waking in the gloom He pours the magic into your eye. immediately you’re in a dream, all cares forgotten, behind they lie. But what of him, what is his scheme? Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 01.18.22 Prompt: Sandman. I was so-o-o tempted to write the following for Sandman: Pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pompom pom. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaa For Express It In Eight, 01.18.22 Prompt: Sandman But it would be meaningless to anyone who didn’t see the relevant episode of The Golden Girls, so I steeled myself against such mischief and wrote something a bit more serious. |
| Dream Days That future where dreams run free like coffee, hot and fresh from the pot, will grow cold and empty with time, as the mug, now stained with yesterday, the ghost of what might have been, and no amount of scrubbing bubbles can remove the touch of reality, the future, now past, in the present. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 01.15.22 Prompt: The future past. |
| Detective Before I leave this mortal coil, like Inspector Morse, I must ensure the dotting of eyes and the crossing of teas to free the world of all its roil, drain mysteries of their allure, whodunnits solved with apparent ease, and so from case to case I dash and justice follows in a flash. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcabcdd For Express It In Eight, 01.14.22 Prompt: Dot . . . dash - - - |
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