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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. |
 Avant Garde The brothers Montgolfier made agreement with the ants, haute couture with lots to say ‘bout clothes from hats to pants. Paris rang with ecstasy, the fashion world gone bats, the catwalk ants of fantasy parading in those hats. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 09.29.22 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Bushfire in Africa Clearance ahead of the fire, an empty space to thwart the flames, if sweating in the heat and branches torn off bushes beat, nor blackened hands and faces, wearied arms and backs, fail to hold assault - firebreak draws the line. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.28.22 Prompt: Clearance. |
| Blow Up The carnival has moved on, Great Underwater Extravaganza, and I near sold out of my happy wares. Have one on me, yes, now they’re free, but not balloons, they’re pufferfish. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.26.22 Prompt: Illustration of diver with pufferfish on strings. |
| Flowers The great grey green greasy Limpopo Eldorado somewhere up the Orinoco those allegories on the banks of the Nile the heart of darkness deep in the Congo three men in a boat on a river less longo the Mississippi took Huck for many a mile these but a few samples of rivers that flow* through the pages of books that we know. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabccbdd For Express It In Eight, 09.25.22 Prompt: World Rivers Day. Note: * is the word clue to the title. |
| Bluebird If happiness be a bluebird it cannot be a blue bird for if it be a true blue bird its music would be blues and blues be the saddest word the saddest we have ever heard and so for happiness preferred another colour we should use. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaabaaab For Express It In Eight, 09.24.22 Prompt: National Bluebird of Happiness Day. |
| Paradox The wonders of the invisible world are somewhat difficult to see, and even then it’s harder to say what you have seen, since seeing makes them visible and wonder flees immediate, the glories of the invisible made safe and stored in ours. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.23.22 Prompt: The wonders of the invisible world. |
| Memory Down the long, dark hallway of memory, we pass by rooms bright with Spring, new growth green in the trees and bees busy, others where winter reigns, cold and grey, some where waves run up a sandy beach, or cool mountain air is sharp in our lungs, and so on down the hall, room after room, on a trip to the darkness of forgetfulness. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.22.22 Prompt: A long hallway. |
| North Norfolk Coast Just here, the tide goes out for miles, sand flats lifted into view, the sea a distant line before the sky, where the shallow ripples lap by the shore, foaming and energy spent, nibbling at the land’s defences. Turning, we see the low green dunes far away and hurry back to escape the sea’s return. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 09.20.22 Prompt: Write a shallow poem. |
| A Reading Family In the days before teevee our Sundays were so free, lazy mornings in quiet leisure, the newspaper the greatest pleasure. Sections there for one and all, choice for first from bed to crawl, slouched in chair or on the floor, comics ruled within our door. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 09.19.22 Prompt: A childhood memory that still brings you joy to think of. |
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