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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.
June 11, 2022 at 10:23am
June 11, 2022 at 10:23am
#1033720
Museums

In old age we become
museums of ourselves,
echoing halls and rooms
filled with the clutter
of long ago, display cases
of what once was,
a record of the ages,
the imprints of our memories.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.11.22
Prompt: Museum.

June 10, 2022 at 6:41pm
June 10, 2022 at 6:41pm
#1033696
Beacon

Cyclops of the shoreline,
the lighthouse flashes a single eye,
bright beam through the darkness,
watching and warning
benighted sailors on the waves,
“Stay clear for here be rocks.”

Mariners count the sequence,
their navigation confirmed.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.10.22
Prompt: Write a poem about something flashy.

June 9, 2022 at 11:21am
June 9, 2022 at 11:21am
#1033655
Choices

Hidden in the day
are many dawns of possibilities,
effulgent to the brim
with thoughts of change
and the promise of renewal,
presenting just another
throw in the immortal game
of hope and dream.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.09.22
Prompt: Write a hidden poem.
Note: As prescribed by the prompt, this poem contains a hidden poem, made easier to identify by emboldening the relevant words.

June 8, 2022 at 11:56am
June 8, 2022 at 11:56am
#1033607
A Tale of Eight Cities

Oh, to have the audacity,
or even the loquacity,
to avoid all mendacity
and demonstrate sagacity.

If adding the capacity,
as well as some tenacity,
eschewing all pugnacity,
we might come to pure veracity.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aaaaaaaa, syllables 88888889
For Express It In Eight, 06.08.22
Prompt: Audacity.

June 6, 2022 at 8:36am
June 6, 2022 at 8:36am
#1033424
Giant mushrooms leading to Otherland.


Mushrooms

Magic mushrooms
were a bit after my time,
so I cannot say
that they lead to an Otherland.
The shaggy ink caps, however,
picked on walks with my father,
and fried on our return,
were a passport to heaven indeed.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.06.22
Prompt: As per illustration.

June 5, 2022 at 9:31am
June 5, 2022 at 9:31am
#1033381
Ladybug

Ladybugs or ladybirds
always prefer a red dress
with black polka dots,
whether aphid feast
or mealybug ball,
their attire desired
makes other beetles
seem underdressed.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.05.22
Prompt: Ladybug.

June 4, 2022 at 6:27am
June 4, 2022 at 6:27am
#1033331
Disaster

In vain the cry goes up,
“The red button! Hit the red!”
Turning ever faster, the vanes spin
till the turbine races uncontrolled,
and shatters, flinging shards
of mayhem and destruction,
tearing veins and ripping limbs,
turbojet refusing birth.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.04.22
Prompt: Vain, vane, vein.

June 3, 2022 at 8:09am
June 3, 2022 at 8:09am
#1033282
You Are Here

Take Psycho Path to its end,
in Dementia you’ll arrive;
down Farfara Way you wend,
and from there to Cattle Drive

This leads to Fordfair Lane,
and so to Under Pass
through the high Sur Mounts,
where dwells the fair Wind Lass.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab cdcd
For Express It In Eight, 06.03.22
Prompt: Psycho Path – Traverse City, Michigan.

June 2, 2022 at 10:19am
June 2, 2022 at 10:19am
#1033219
Poultry Defences

Chicken wire to build the coop
set the support posts deep
old wooden crates to build a house
boxes inside for the laying of eggs
and that’s the easy part.


But the pièce de résistance
surely must be, the passing ogre hired
for the scaring of goblins.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 06.02.22
Prompt: Goblin-proofing One’s Chicken Coop.


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