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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. |
| Baled Hay The words remind me of another time when strength still ruled in these old bones and innocent I agreed to help a friend spread hay upon his smallholding strawbs then to find that baled hay weighs a ton and a day spent throwing them around brings the sweat hot and powdered with grit to the face and the body aching with strain. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.23.25 Prompt: Baled hay. |
| Elegy In the stillness of a quiet room we find our rest in the shadows of the darkened tomb we pass the final test. Tranquillity ends the strife of life no longer bated breath and still the swirling airs so rife now tamed in silent death. Line count: 8 Rhymed abab For Express It In Eight, 04.22.25 Prompt: Include the phrase “in the stillness of a quiet room.” |
| Pondermania On being asked to elaborate my thoughts became deliberate, becoming so ethereal, ineffable and sidereal, eventually existential, ultimately circumstantial, so that my adventure mental became something incidental. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.21.25 Prompt: Today is 'BIG WORD DAY,' a day dedicated to celebrating the use of long words in the English language. Use elaborate words to promote linguistic creativity! |
| Carpe Diem? He who hesitates is lost for, in calculating the cost, the urge to act deserted and left his aim diverted. Although, if truth be told, some trust in lore of old, holding the adage to keep is to look before you leap. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.20.25 Prompt: Write a hesitant poem. |
| Gratitude Pity the poor atheist think of what he missed when miracles occur he cannot but defer to accident that’s all - a funny thing to call God’s hand upon his life and easing daily strife. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.19.25 Prompt: Write a poem inspired by the video above. |
| Enchanting Rearranging, interchanging, decorating, intimating, simplicating, terminating, castigating, interrogating, congregating, celebrating, reverberating, regulating, aspirating, confabulating, that’s my kind of thing. Line count: 8 Rhymed aaaaaaaa For Express It In Eight, 04.17.25 Prompt: Write a poem about rearranging. |
| Identification Oh, I saw the feller as plain as day; I don’t miss much is what they always say, and that’s him there, the third from the right, though on the day he was a much worse sight - he wore a sinister balaclava and stood at the time a good deal farther, but I did not hear him speak words or shout so much that I am beginning to doubt. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.16.25 Prompt: Write a poem from the point of view of the witness of a crime. |
| Nomad After the strain of the day and the twists of the way with destination reached and ambitions beached energy lost in the grate and the hour growing late the eyes glaze over so sleeps the rover. Line count: 8 Rhymed aabb For Express It In Eight, 04.15.25 Prompt: Culinary terms - glaze, grate, strain. |
| Refreshment Far from the chattering and oblivious crowd furled in the hand of deepest silence found my relief from the daily incessant round following the trail of my earnest desires full contentment I grasp as I breathe the air fast my comforting ease in solitude fierce my passion for the quiet and serene famous the balm of rest from the hubbub. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.14.25 Prompt: Write a poem in which all lines begin with the same letter. |
| Of Balconies “Romeo, Romeo, why are you Romeo?” she clears the misunderstanding an enquiring voice in the theatre while every head turns at the misquote and Romeo himself in the garden gazing up at the gallery ponders on the twists of reason induced by the heights of balconies. Line count: 8 Free verse For Express It In Eight, 04.13.25 Prompt: Write a poem with a balcony. |
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