Best Octosyllabic Poems

Heavenly Spring
(Decima)

Colorful  blooming pear and apple trees
Beautiful within the first weeks of spring
Everything is heavenly blossoming
With gentle blowing winds and humming bees
The time to plant some vegetable seeds 
With the sunshine and rain all the seeds grow
Glorious rainbow putting on a show
Colorful flowers raising...

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A fine family of foxes, 
a feisty mom and her two kits
living near humans by shrewd wits.
Her constant success flummoxes. 
Kits are tiny jack-in-the-boxes,
heads bobbing while mom baby sits. 

NB: Other - Sextilla: A Sp. stanza form of six octosyllabic or shorter lines. In the...

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Breath of life in a forlorn one,
uplifted face to brace the wind,
called His name with prayer to send.
Forgive me! I have come undone.
I lost my way, now moribund,
and all I’d hoped was to ascend.

*Other - Sextilla: A Sp. stanza form of six octosyllabic or shorter...

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As young children, we were happy
but as adults, most of us not.
why so? Cause ideas what's thought
as right, differs -none takes gladly.

Adult unhappiness derives
from rigidity as stuck in
own ways though always wish to win
often leads to failure in lives.

While our routine ways of thinking,
acting may...

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Now my posh palette is laid waste.
Winter, winding its way to fore,
lays its whiteness at my front door.
Vivid colors become murky paste
and lose their hue with rash haste.
My parquet is covered with hoar.

Other – Sextilla: (1) Six-line stanzas of eight-syllable lines rhymed either aabccb or...

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