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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.
January 6, 2024 at 11:08am
January 6, 2024 at 11:08am
#1061968
An eye with clock face reflected.


Eye Time

A staring contest, eye to eye,
unblinking concentration
‘gainst human weakness, mild and shy,
a proud determination.

And so does time itself tick by,
in silent conflagration
their frailty in this belied,
regretting instigation.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab abab
For Express It In Eight, 01.06.24
Prompt: As per illustration.



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