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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.
July 28, 2022 at 1:55pm
July 28, 2022 at 1:55pm
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Grasshopper

Happy as the day is long,
the grasshopper sings his song
as he rasps and he buzzes,
as his leg combs he brushes,
and with careless abandon
and no thought what he’ll land on,
he bounds to the upper air
launched to a future elsewhere.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabbccdd, seven syllables per line
For Express It In Eight, 07.28.22
Prompt: Land.



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