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Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #2316158

The second of my collections of poems written for "Express It In Eight."

As usual these days, I choose blog format because it offers more space for the work.
April 29, 2025 at 6:00am
April 29, 2025 at 6:00am
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It’s a Language

All things are grist to art’s pure mill
both deepest grumble and shrieking shrill
the shocking jolt and mundane sight
a brightest dawn and darkest night.

It’s how the thing speaks to your ear
with cotton wool or sickening fear
with beauty like the Mona Lisa
or dread Picasso’s Guernica.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabb
For Express It In Eight, 04.29.25
Prompt:
Art by Herman Melville.


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