Eights Poems - Poems about Eights

Within the Whispered Wind

...
Within the whispered wind, bumble bees
fly their syncopated figure eights.
Praying mantises fall to their knees
	…within the whispered winds.

Rich blessings float from heavenly gates
and set...

Persistence and Emergence

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C-liff
H-eights
E-xude
R-emarkable 
R-esilience,
Y-earning

A-ll
N-oble
N-ew

G-rowth
U-nder
I-ntense
T-rials
A-nd
N-urturing

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Monocrostic (Birthday of Cherry Ann G....

Shine

...starry night's lustrous 
heights set hope alive ~ heartbeats
inspired to let light 
nature's way ~ reciprocates 
expressed ~ I am you We are...

Ebullient Light

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Illuminated figure eights swirling through the stratosphere 
moonlet drops of gold surrounded by the ebon night 
Star kissed wishes floating through the atmospheric dew 
of a celestial...

Bagarthach 1: A Curse Verse

...Bagarthach’s prey oft are smitten
by curses composed in eights and nines.
Careful how you phrase what’s written,
so you’re not the target of its lines!

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From Poet's Collective, a q...

cat

...my beautiful cat
figure-eights around my legs
wanting warmth...or food...

The World's a Delight

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    Upside down 
      inside out
    Backward, forward
      full of doubt

    Indoors, outdoors
      far and near
    It’s a mess out there
      without you near 

    Sashay left
 ...

Raining in Summer

...I've always lived in Southern California.
I've never heard of summer rain.
This notion, I have to say, quite honestly,
Strikes me as insane.   

I might as well speak of fluffy penguins
Who liv...

Eight thirty to WTC One

...Run headlong into it, your life
for this time belongs only to you..  
today may be the day your hurting soul says 'let me go'
while another voice says 'please hold'.

and I hope you do..

Othe...

I Wish I Had A Deadman’s Hand

...Distracted by eyes and lips; skin so fair.
Lured bettors; a beautiful poker face.
Taking games with ease; a delicate stare. 
The deck’s in my hand. I’m holding her ace.

I wish I had better prep...

The Constant Morning

...Apathy meets and coldly cells and rounds me,
A warm smile ills none than shape perfect eights,
Abrupt shadows the wall chilled seemingly unmoved,
Bold shades lightly now a pool of brig...

Sandy

...Blasting through the night
Blaze to morn
"Hey there Thunderhead!
Where you going with that storm?"

"To crazy eights!
And jesters wild
I’ll just be gone a while
Or more"

A frenzy in her mi...

The Three-Legged Table

...Inside our living room, there stood a table.
Three legs it had; its round top was unique.
Mom kept it in the corner, and she’d say
so proudly that the table was antique.

Well polished, it had a...

Fashionable Cat Keeps Her Secrets

...No matter who you ask
If you expect two adjectives
One of them will be fashionable
She is a diva cat, dressed to the eights.

I would have said nines, but that is rude
considering what nine mea...

Ice Skating

...At Lake Mission Bell, after the winter scared it solid, kids carve short stories in broken, confused cursive into the ice with pens of sharpened steel. It’s a beautiful  thing to watch geniuses compo...

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