Best Ottava Rima Poems
Below are the all-time best Ottava Rima poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ottava rima poems written by PoetrySoup members
Dark RainstormThe chaotic cadence of falling rain
begins striking the pavement in evening's hours.
Up on the roof I hear the steady gain
of drops as sprinkling now becomes...
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Categories:
dark, imagery, rain,
Form:
Ottava rima
Amethyst FateBluebells in chime are shadows in training,
beech trees rising in a sheltering sky.
Sunlight peeks through, the merest of raining,
to guide the mauve buds to darkness...
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Categories:
flower, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Ottava rima
The Art Beyond the ArborOh, Nature’s spree, your artistic scene exceeds!
Quaint the plash of paints upon the frilly bloom
hued with sunrise splash in skies as night recedes,...
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Categories:
art, autumn, beauty, flower,
Form:
Ottava rima
White AngelsHow many roses since have come and gone?
he thought as he sat looking at her grave.
How many futures had been staked upon
those brilliant blooms to...
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Categories:
death, lost love, moving
Form:
Ottava rima
Body ails yet spirit soarsFreezing in the midst of hostile ice monsoon
triggering aching woes beneath blood and bones,
I search for a quilt woven in sanguine rune
silken feathers of clementine...
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Categories:
deep, hope, rain,
Form:
Ottava rima
Song For My Love, My Sweet"A woodland path in the dappled sun, hushed and quiet "
At last you’ve come for me, my love, my sweet!
You’ve come through tranquil woodland, with...
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Categories:
passionheart, heart,
Form:
Ottava rima
HoustonHouston
I wonder if the summer rain was warm
that poured like Pharaoh’s plagues upon the town
as people waded from their homes in swarms
and small craft was...
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Categories:
rain, storm,
Form:
Ottava rima
Kissing SnowflakesLike ballerinas airdropped from on high,
Snowflakes pirouette to damask the air,
Tutued geometries dimpling the sky,
Veil our stinging eyes with arabesque fair.
Downy...
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Categories:
beauty, imagery, kiss, romantic,
Form:
Ottava rima
With Joy OverflowingRomance is in bloom when it's new and sweet
like rose buds opening. Love is growing!
The flutter feeling each time that you meet;
the kisses and the...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Ottava rima
The Signs of Spring For MeI’m looking forward as I always do
to springtime -when the robin’s trills I hear
which come from trees which years ago we grew.
They bloom in early...
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Categories:
spring,
Form:
Ottava rima
Kiss Me Quiet
It's near midnight, whilst we moonlight walk
Palm tree lined fairway, Crickets singing
Hands clenched in loving vacationed talk
Hearts in wanting pound, Batangas is bringing
We, she and...
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Categories:
beauty, holiday, i miss
Form:
Ottava rima
The Morning MistThe morning's mists
mix with the
woodland's scent
To fill me with such
wondrous happiness;
I see her wet but
gentle hands are
bent
And reaching out to
touch with
loveliness
The trees, and fills
my heart...
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Categories:
happiness, life, metaphor, tree,
Form:
Ottava rima
The Gods of WindsA warring god of wind storms and lightening,
Rudra, rough looking, well built, braided hair
Golden in color, of firm limbs widening
With streaks of lightening and fearful...
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Categories:
god, mythology, wind,
Form:
Ottava rima
The Endless War(not to take too seriously; I think I am immune
to my "enemies" by now!)
How near to us are foes we can’t resist
when cells, like...
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Categories:
satire
Form:
Ottava rima
Changing SkyMy weeping eyes behold the changing sky
O'erspread with clouds of grey where once was blue
With gaze upturned, I heave a burdened sigh
At all the world...
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Categories:
earth, emotions, rain, rainbow,
Form:
Ottava rima
Turner TidesRampage rumbling water roars dig the shores
Heavy hard they grapple trees and humans
Tumbling turner tides glide no one adore
Frightened humans, they run! Run and run...
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Categories:
death, natural disasters, sea,
Form:
Ottava rima
I'M An 8I wonder where earth joins the sky,
then hear the thunder's battle cry,
and ponder how the day rescinds,
with words that rattle with the wind
A rumbled sound...
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Categories:
nature, rain,
Form:
Ottava rima
Kanhapatra - WinOnce upon a time there lived a dancer
Shyama, a concubine of a feudal baron
Had a pretty girl Kanha, also a dancer
Quite excelled in playing...
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Categories:
mother, time,
Form:
Ottava rima
El Puente Nuevo, Ronda, Spain 1936Look how they fall like angels to the earth!
But no soft landing down amongst those rocks.
Those devils on the bridge with gleeful mirth
Terrorised the townsfolk...
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Categories:
conflict, death, history, horror,
Form:
Ottava rima
White Rose In a Summer GardenA white rose grew in her Summer garden,
whose velvet petals formed a lovely head
more exquisite than those in Le jardin.
Its sweet fragrance perfumed the flower...
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Categories:
garden, rose,
Form:
Ottava rima
Angelic LightI enter an arch of disarranged hill
Blinded by darkness; thick the skin of air.
My lips quiver into whispers, until
Feathers so lucent appear from nowhere.
Sweet voice...
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Categories:
angel, miracle, uplifting,
Form:
Ottava rima
Mist RiseAh, disperse, dissolve, deploy, aqua vitae,
all through the depth of primal forest rise,
turn the shades of green toward blue-gray.
Soften shades of purple shadows, disguise,
and...
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Categories:
beauty,
Form:
Ottava rima
Nature's Wild ChildRain’s riot banishes peace of mind day,
Deluge damning dumps devious rage wet.
Storm, summer rain's wild child pours on display;
Lightning fierce, firing fitful since sunset,
Bass booming...
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Categories:
nature, rain, storm, summer,
Form:
Ottava rima
Summer RainTattered Petals: Wounded Heart
Tattered on the garden path are petals
from roses, beheaded by Summer rain
when storm clouds emptied their brimming kettles
In the garden, my tender...
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Categories:
lost love, rain, rose,
Form:
Ottava rima
Twilight SongLong shaded walks neath gilded canopies,
as Autumn’s twilight song proclaimed the cold
with words from lips of russet, aired with ease,
entwined with brittle leaves of bronze...
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Categories:
lost love, seasonsautumn,
Form:
Ottava rima