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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 21, 2023 at 8:21am
June 21, 2023 at 8:21am
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River

The river is a wondrous thing,
it makes a ge-o-grapher sing,
that such a mighty, moving throng
of droplets joined in current strong
should start as little raindrops frail,
or snowflakes mild, or stinging hail,
united on this parchèd earth
to flowing symbol of rebirth.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabbccdd, all lines of eight syllables
For Express It In Eight, 06.21.23
Prompt: National Rivers Month.



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