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Best Octagon Poems

Below are the all-time best Octagon poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of octagon poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Road Less Traveled By Us
After our not so delicious meal, we started home
He turned onto our usual well-worn road
Headed west where we bumped across raised railroad tracks
There at the...

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Categories: octagon, america, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You Have To Be a Hexagon -Edited
A hexagon, a hexagon, you have to be a hexagon.

You say you are a pentagon? 
What use have I for pentagon?
You’re too close to the...

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Categories: octagon, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Dad
My Dad was Chicagoan.
He would light up a room just like my Mom. 
He loved to fish ! He loved his beer .
He also designed...

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Categories: octagon, addiction, anger, betrayal, birth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Circle Gets the Square
A  is for algebra, where numbers are represented by letters
 B  is for base, a base ten number  system is much better

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octagon, science, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Bio-Thermal Geometry
	
Mama, mama ...
I got a triangular problem
And I need you
to give me the square deal truth
Straight honest for real, lying foolproof — 
it’s a rectangle...

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Categories: octagon, cute, fun, humor, math,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member My Fingernails Will Grow Back
Big Sur Jade Cabochon

Broken from off underwater cliffs
Slowly pushed by tides and currents
Found by me during a low tide
While searching along Jade Cove
In Los Padres...

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Categories: octagon, art, beach, beauty, earth,
Form: Prose
Stoned
Elemental dissonance

Poly-plated string guess

Depressive spine edge

Identity description cubed

Waterfalls negative score

Abyssal language drops


Hole numeral planification

Horizontal ship oval dust

Sea’s sloped gravitational

Octagon growth


Lack of facts and matter

Undertone course...

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Categories: octagon, confusion
Form: I do not know?
Biothermal Geometry


Mama, mama ...
I got a triangular problem
And I need you
to give me the square deal truth
Straight honest for real, lying foolproof — 
it’s a rectangle...

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Categories: octagon, best friend, girlfriend, satire,
Form: Light Verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iii
Marching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers, 
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced 
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied 
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting...

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Categories: octagon, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Search of My Identity Card
I took a ride on the other side
of a wide ocean and wilder skies
People spoke there
In languages unknown to us
Only two of us are in...

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Categories: octagon, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Spiderweb
Compressed predator instincts
Exist in the most primitive dimension

Textile complex of nerves
Mixture of nebulas and herbs
Blinking imperfect echoes

Is it a crop of static points?
Yet there’s no...

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Categories: octagon, confusion
Form: I do not know?
Scarred Streets
the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings

there's a window in my...

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Categories: octagon, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Dancing On the Edge

You and yours
don’t like me and mine
Me and mine
don’t like you and yours
What my people do,
your people don’t flag approve
What your people say,
my people yawn...

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Categories: octagon, allusion, conflict, metaphor, truth,
Form: Narrative
Square the Circle
Can you make an obtuse plight 
spherical right,
can you square the circle?

Do you scalene sleight get it,
can you rectangular height dig it?

If rainbow arc so,
then...

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Categories: octagon, introspection, metaphor, philosophy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The Rock In the Eye
Here comes a word,
A word that cuts as a sword,
You could have heard it’s foreword,
From a songbird or a ladybird,
But I renew your memory,
Of the...

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Categories: octagon, addiction, community, drug, mentor,
Form: Verse

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