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. |
Pardon? Oh, nothing, just forget it, it drifts away so let it, importance it had none, and what is done, is done, a silly comment really, if we regard it fairly, let us not dismember the thing I don’t remember. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.27.23 Prompt: Just forget it. |
Alice Alice went down the rabbit hole, I think it was a rabbit’s - not a mole’s, had a drink and nearly drowned, met the queen but wasn’t crowned, invited to a mad hatter’s party, moved on from there and rather smartly, bandied words with a caterpillar, and got back home in time for dinner. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.26.23 Prompt: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. |
Life Lessons Live free or die is all the reason why the grand experiment to be no detriment in every human soul the finest of our role that from the depths we’re lifted once we with life are gifted. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.22.23 Prompt: Simple rules for living. |
Ark Young Noah, an uncertain rower, used motors outboard when pressing onward with the ship, but Ham, his son, who ran the zoo with a sense of fun, was popular with very few - his demeanour was de meaner of de two. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.21.23 Prompts: Zoo, demeanour, ship. |
From Hippy to Snippy I used to be cool when cool was the rule, and laid back was paid back with honour from fools. But now to be trendy, a modus vivendi, I think I’d rather play pool. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabba cca For Express It In Eight, 11.20.23 Prompt: I used to be cool. |
} Alzheimers These rags would indicate presence, though lacking that certain essence, they drape an empty mimicry of being, much less than simile, still claims a space within the scene, solidity quite unforeseen, yet turns its back upon the world, its vacancy upon us hurled. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 11.18.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
Awareness Awareness lies like an invisible cloak on innocent shoulders, it drapes, a weightless film on the life of the newborn, and ties the cord of belonging round the neck of understanding, opens the eyes of expectation to past, present and future, stirs the dust of our passing with the wake of being, clogs with the grime of the tallied years, the edges of memory, grows heavy with cares and worries and fears of the self, wears thin at last as the fading light hides the last of its sheen. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 11.17.23 Prompt: Write a poem about awareness. |
Partners A troll is to a bridge as cold is to a fridge, it’s all about a purpose, a shell must have its tortoise, a cloud’s in need of rain, a bath will have its drain, events do have their time, and poems sometimes rhyme. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 11.15.23 Prompt: Picture of a troll under a bridge. |