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Best Octet Poems

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My Woman Viii - An Octet
I found my life path
Leading straight to your heart.
You left me gaping without any clue.
I've never seen one so true!
Your love is poisonous as it...

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Categories: octet, beauty, feelings, love, romantic
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Octet Eight Lines Down
BORN ANEW
When Spring comes again
not the warmth..nor the rain
not the yellow ..nor the green
not the grass or verdant scene;
not the winds or blossom bright
not the...

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Categories: octet, christian, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Covid Haiku-Octet Poem
Why so many must die?
Disparity…not death’s fault;
Death loves all people…

The truth has its ways,
Be careful how you respond;
Bigotry explodes!

Together…we die,
Together, we live apart;
To gather…denied…

Covid-19 kills,
But...

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Categories: octet, allegory, anxiety, death, grief,
Form: Haiku
Outcome :: Oriental Octet
Nature only gives
never demands return from
its users; while no
animals destroy nature,
but human solely ruin
natural richness
for personal gain, outcome 
indicates climate change.
~X~X~X~
...

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© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octet, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Travel Once Sliding Octet
Travel once on a haunted train,
a taste may make you lose your mind;
Railroad tracks leave the world behind 
dismantled boxcars keep rolling;
Phantom mouths continue screaming,
they...

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Categories: octet, dark, feelings, horror,
Form: Other



Music's Magic
They all speak to me:
sometimes alone, 
like a solo cello with 
its sad, plaintive voice, 
tugging at my soul
like a magnet pulling 
at life's deep...

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Categories: octet, analogy, appreciation, beauty, music,
Form: Free verse
Ants
An octet of  naughty ants
                   ...

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Categories: octet, kids, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Table of Knowledge
A Geek philosopher named Democritus
With his companion Leucippus
Believed matter is made up of tiny particles.
It is hardly noticeable.

At the turn of the 19th century
Dalton’s atomic...

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Categories: octet, 9th grade, high school,
Form: Free verse
Angels and Lyres
The day I heard my guardian cherub play,
my heart raced with sincere anticipation-
For each note was a heavenly display,
as her lyre was born from an...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octet, angel, beautiful, music,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Blessings of Music
// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: octet, appreciation, blessing, music,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Saved a Soul Saving Myself
Saved a kind soul that was falling
with nothing to lose 
just one abdomen, no sharp fangs 
but huge.

And what's worse 
the carton I called home,...

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Categories: octet, flying, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Space Sonnets
(Let’s take off to ‘multiverse’ straight
Of my ‘verses’ all together eight
There is no division in sonnet
Like a super octet and set-set
They are just a cute...

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Categories: octet, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Genius
It’s a word that’s been stripped
of its original narrow meaning –
someone of exceptional intellectual ability 

(think Newton and Einstein), 
or possessed of artistic/musical skill
(think Picasso,...

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Categories: octet, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member I Love Sweet Tender, Kisses That Beg More
Sonnet Doubles....

I Love Sweet Tender, Kisses That Beg More

I seek not perfection nor world's bright gold
in my waking, I beg pardon from thee
each new day,...

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Categories: octet, art, creation, deep, growth,
Form: Sonnet
Find Your Voice
In the central science of chemistry, a full octet of electrons means that you’re a chemical VIP, better known as a noble gas.
This is what...

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Categories: octet, appreciation, education,
Form: Rhyme

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