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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.
April 29, 2022 at 3:59pm
April 29, 2022 at 3:59pm
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Illustration to the poem Captain L.E.G. Oates


Captain L.E.G. Oates
“I am just going outside and may be some time."


Snowblind in the whiteout, white
while blinkered with the brightest sight,
all the world submerged in light,
glare that, lancing through eyelids tight,
yet spreads abroad its formless might,
days held fast in radiant night,
direction frozen from left and right,
Antarctic wanderer gives up the fight.



Line count: 8
Free verse (apart from rhyming every line, of course)
For Express It In Eight, 04.29.22
Prompt: White.




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