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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 19, 2023 at 10:17am
June 19, 2023 at 10:17am
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Ocean

Splashing at the edge of life,
we play in the shallows,
deaf to the ocean’s strife,
the abyss of endless fallow.

Not for us the crushing deep
and twinkling monster’s lights,
cascading dust that lulls to sleep,
in the realm of infinite night.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 06.19.23
Prompt: Shallow.


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