\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
◄     October     ►
2022
SMTWTFS
      
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Archive RSS
SPONSORED LINKS
BY ONLINE AUTHORS
Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2268464-Eight-line-Poems/day/10-30-2022
\"Reading Printer Friendly Page Tell A Friend
(9)
Rated: E · Book · Entertainment · #2268464
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.
October 30, 2022 at 10:32am
October 30, 2022 at 10:32am
#1039959
The Road Goes Ever On

Mostly dead is slightly alive
and where there’s life, there’s hope,
even when we fail to thrive
toward recovery we grope,
spirit refusing to lie down,
the slightest spark can blaze again,
in deepest dark the light may drown
but ahead we sense the dawn.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 10.30.22
Prompt: Mostly dead is slightly alive.


© Copyright 2024 Beholden (UN: beholden at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Beholden has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2268464-Eight-line-Poems/day/10-30-2022