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High Octane Poems - Poems about High Octane

Curmudgeons Have Nothing Very Much Also
... Stars, what can you say about them - not a lot. The slightest bit of cloud cover and they’re gone. Butterflies… folks got a lot of things to say about butterflies - not me though (bug......

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Categories: high octane, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Appreciation
...Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation. Anne Rice From the deepest recesses of the crowded hall Came a thunderous applause that shook the walls......

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Categories: high octane, appreciation, celebrity, dedication, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My heart works eight times three
...My heart works eight times three; in search of passions' prosperity Hidden in darkness, I crave the simplest of the lights' normality My mind won't stray; embracing the loudest of rhymes melody Wo......

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Categories: high octane, cute love, for her,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Paddy
...Paddy His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co......

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Categories: high octane, dog,
Form: Prose
The End of Everything
...The end of everything The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years he had been the master of the ship, a friendship between the animate ......

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Categories: high octane, absence, break up, devotion,
Form: Blank verse



Gas Lighting
...On the way out the door by morning Keys still in the lock for strangers Stop at the bank for a cash transaction Empty is the account which has no funds E......

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Categories: high octane, absence, car, dark, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rule of Threes Four
...Messiah’s portent His advent, descent, ascent Returns to cement Apostates conspire To douse the prophet's hellfire But reap God's backfire Curse your weighted scale Your oppression leaves ......

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Categories: high octane, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Running Outta Gas
...Used to be this high octane poet Running outta gas, my poems sure show it Need a fillup Injection up my butt Of phrases like “grease monkey in the pit”......

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Categories: high octane, endurance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny
...AntiPoem 4 “Santo and Johnny” (Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading) Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass Just oozing out their mel......

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Categories: high octane, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Kind of Virus
...There's another virus going around. Flustered by everything COVID-19; I am grateful I still have a job, but grumpy I have to drive there in the rain - I need to get to the fast lane or I'll be ......

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Categories: high octane, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Field Melody
...In the rural green field far away from city cacophony the lure of sonic extravaganza rose from the virgin soil, reaching far and wide across the urban pop culture with the tantalizing tunes of gra......

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Categories: high octane, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Theodore Travels
...Stuck on a hybrid labyrinth race track in undue course Crash helmet cracked under the raw tempo of stagnation Chequered flags waving but a motor running against the clock In reverse and the ......

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Categories: high octane, confusion,
Form: Free verse
When the Music Stops
...Magic The kind that stretches The fabric of who you are And in a blinding instant Makes you more than you were Somewhere deep inside We all know the trembling thrill Oh, not sleight of hand ......

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Categories: high octane, growth, inspiration, magic,
Form: Free verse
A Seamans War
...The Merchant seafarers` war When world war two started Norway was neutral but unsure which side to stay on. The English thought occupying Norway but they were too late the German army had don......

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Categories: high octane, absence, deep, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Demolition Day
...You look wrecked, are you feeling OK, Was all of that more than you thought? Was all of that harder than it was meant to be, Leaving you all distraught, Here, sit down, drink this water, Le......

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Categories: high octane, children, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Quatrain

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