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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. |
| Metal Musings Plastic may be fantastic but you can have a metal kettle, and elastic is quite gymnastic, but with metal you can fettle. It’s iron you can rely on and copper is a topper, brass has got some class, and zinc will make you think. Line count: 8 Rhymes within rhymes and rhymes with reason For Express It In Eight, 05.30.22 Prompt: Write a poem about something made of metal. |
| An Answer England’s history lies not in the horse, though a noble beast, agreed. For Scythians and the hordes of Genghis Khan, Comanche and Sioux, born to ride the plains, and the Irish and their racing steeds, true equine peoples these. But for us it is the humble oak, donors of those wooden walls that kept our freedom safe. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.29.22 Prompt: Ronald Duncan’s poem, The Horse. |
| As Dead As The late dodo and the doornail (both as dead as can ever be) having decided to set sail upon the Dead Sea, fittingly, laid a course for the utter East, one last time to see the sunrise, only to meet Aristophanes, together to fly through the skies. Line count: 8 Rhymed ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, 05.28.22 Prompt: Dead as a doornail. |
 Classic Finally, out to grass, the old warhorse stands, rust brown and battle scarred, in the pasture of its reward, dreaming of the days of toil, all cylinders working, pride of the hero farmer. In the lane, a restorer names his price. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.26.22 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Outside My Window, June Steals a Day from May Summer clothes the landscape in green, the trees spread their leafy burdens in the sun, the grass grows thick, lush and long, bringing the staccato buzz of mowers and the scent of manicured lawns in the air. Thoughts turn somnolent in the steady heat, a breeze brushes briefly, lightly on the skin; we dream of other summers, other places. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.25.22 Prompt: Landscape. |
 Invitation Come to my party, said the tiger to the deer, it’s going to be most hearty, serving water ‘stead of beer, the elephant is coming, the crocodile and hare, the bee will be there humming, the whole jungle will be there. Line count: 8 Rhymed ababcdcd For Express It In Eight, 05.24.22 Prompt:: As per illustration. |
 Man and Tree Two-faced Janus speaks of a world divided dark and light, of futures bleak and choices bright, yet stands he in between you see, his being in both sides is rooted, his arguments have long been muted, in balance he has learned to be. Line count: 8 Rhymed ababcddc For Express It In Eight, 05.23.22 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Mississippi Downstream, the river relaxes, unmindful of its tempestuous youth, it slows its pace, spreads wide across the plain, undecided upon direction, bending and looping, leaving ox bow lakes in its wake, seeking the ocean and its rest, yet unhurried. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.22.22 Prompt: Downstream.  |
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