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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. |
| Alphabet Minuet Mind over matter, I’ve heard it said, Never will happen until we are dead, Over the ages we seek magic power, Proposing to build a new Babel tower, Quick and predicted our subsequent fall, Rapid and ruinous, down will come all, Such are the wages of rampant ambition, The dreams of us mortals in final collision. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 12.31.23 Prompt: Write a poem with lines that begin with consecutive letters in the alphabet. |
| Made with WHAT? The lesson here, to the mind that’s freer, is that it doesn’t matter if assumptions shatter; what makes the thing has got no sting if the result is art - the important part. Line count: 8 Rhymed couplets For Express It In Eight, 12.30.23 Prompt: Video about Tom Deininger making sculptures from garbage. |
 Alfred Alfred, stop playing with my pearls! You’ll break the string. They were given to me by my mother, an inheritance sort of a thing. And don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing, your intentions to me are apparent - you’re just trying to get me going. Oh Alfred, you’re really transparent. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 12.29.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| A Solitary Thought If we should get our just deserts for dryness to the rafter, rather it should be desserts as punishment comes after. And if dessert is sweet reward for eating all our greens, we’re all agreed and of accord with justice done and seen. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express IT In Eight, 12.27.23 Prompt: Take time to be alone. Note: The thought came to me when I was alone. |
 Nocturne 2 Winter walk at evening, fam’ly in the snow, couple, child, and happy dog, through the park they go. Up upon the hillside, the houses twinkle bright, golden glow in gloaming, preparing for the night. Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 12.26.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| For He Who Would A-Wooing Go Stars and moonlight serenade, peach and cherry lemonade, chocolate squares and peppermint, a classic book that’s out of print, orchid sprays and roses too, gallant deeds and derring-do, which of these will win her heart? Best find out before you start. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 12.25.23 Prompt: Moonlight Serenade. |
| Christmas Alcohol and candy, turkey, sprouts, and brandy reindeer antler headgear, snow and prices dear, choc-o-late and gifts, cards and fam’ly tiffs, Santa down the chimney, the meaning grasped, but dimly. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 12.24.23 Prompt: Write a poem that includes two or all three of these words: reindeer, cashmere, headgear. |
| Prisons Papillon the Butterfly, if held in Alcatraz, would never flutter to the sky, or Sing Sing all that jazz. Never held in Leavenworth, Capone he could not fly, and Attica would be the fourth of prisons we could try. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 12.23.23 Prompt: Alcatraz. |
 The Lock The lock presents itself, like an eye weeping bitter, midnight tears, streaming down a mottled skin bloodstained with defence, and offers, enigmatic, in archèd brow, a choice of gee or zee. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 12.22.23 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Prediction Had a look into the future seemed it had a need of suture it was so very broken. If you would see what has to be be certain it’s not caused by me and truer words aren’t spoken. Sometimes tomorrow means only sorrow. Line count: 8 Rhymed aab ccb dd For Express It In Eight, 12.21.23 Prompt: Prediction. |
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