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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. |
| Heavenly Judgement Unqualified am I even to sigh over such things as the Aurora Borealis. Clearly a sight beheld at night beyond understanding till experiancing. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 05.30.24 Prompt. Photos of the Aurora Borealis. Note. The misspelling of the final word of the poem is deliberate. |
| So Still a Swift I am transported back to childhood days when I stood with extended arms hank of yarn entrapped and a single strand from there to my mother’s hands rolling the yarn, rolling, into the required ball. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.29.24 Prompt: Illustration of a tangled line with one line leading to a spiralled ball. |
| On Beating Em I’ll change my name to Em and so be undefeatable I have it on good authority that’s how to be invincible And if you cannot beat me your only possible end is to give up on the fight and apply to be my friend Line count: 8 Rhymed abcb For Express It In Eight, 05.28.24 Prompt: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. |
| The Human Body Emits Visible Light This one has the aura of bunkum since “visible” means we can see it so the saying is merely conundrum leaving us no way to free it from our minds and leave it behind where it belongs as essentially wrong. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 05.27.24 Prompt: The human body emits visible light, but it’s not visible to the human eye. |
| Disappointment It didn’t come today they promised yesterday it would be here tomorrow yet here sit I in sorrow the day has reached its eve and hope is set to leave expectancy is numb tomorrow never comes. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 05.26.24 Prompt: Write a poem about something that never arrived. |
| Rationalisations As a child, I viewed the poles (and books often illustrated them as such) as actual poles sticking up from the snow, being the visible ends of the physical axis around which our blue-green globe turned. And now, from the height of our scientific explanations, considerations and reason, that’s a picture as good as any. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.25.24 Prompt: Polar. |
| Early Warning To write a grumpy poem I won’t go far from home don’t need to write a tome or question my chrome dome. Just ask me when I’ve woken to another dawn now broken exactly how I’ve slept you’ll wish your silence kept. Line count: 8 Rhymed (quite a lot, actually) For Express It In Eight, 05.23.24 Prompt: Write a grumpy poem. |
 For Rudyard Perched like the empire above limitless jungle precarious yet still dress inappropriate but balance maintained in mid transmission of reason unbounded before stepping down. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.21.24 Prompt: As per illustration. |
| Small Moments Where silence reigns absolute and time releases its hold the world coalesced to an instant insight revealed in the mundane. There in the frozen moment life concentrated unfiltered through care and concern of what lies beyond the bend. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 05.20.24 Prompt: Find joy in small moments. |
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