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Octane Poems - Poems about Octane

Half-Skunked Drunks

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A truckful of drunks
half-skunked boozers
gun racks in the back
unlucky losers
pulled up to the pumps
for a gallon or two
only high octane
tanked would do
then one had a bad itch
h...
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Categories: octane, drink, fun, silly, word
Form: Rhyme

Come forth our Angel of the North Stokesy

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Come forth our Angel of the North
Working class…but VIP pass…standing sentry for cricketing gentry
Towering injury tarnished Talisman penury
Revarnished..primacy rebooted for his mooted destiny ...
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Categories: octane, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Babbling Brook or Dirty Harry

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Michelin star cricketing cook…by hook or crook.. so canny..will find every nook and cranny…if you took a look at the record..score or text book ..won’t have forsook ..our dutiful..beautiful babblin...
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Categories: octane, sports,
Form: Free verse

Bazball or Bazbat goes soft and flat

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Alright have to admit that whole drole Bazball or Baz Bat cool cat vibe…rabbit out of hat tribe.. is taking its toll..sunk in a hole..losing it’s goal and soul..not being a vitriol troll..maybe nee...
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Categories: octane, sports,
Form: Rhyme

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 vessel, a friendship between the animat...
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Categories: octane, age, art, books, break
Form: ABC



Premium MemberFeelings

...Feelings are the octane 
of words...they drive our
poetry: A skip and a jump,
tripping the imagination
fantastic!...
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Categories: octane, feelings, imagination, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Curmudgeons Have Nothing Very Much Also

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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: octane, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEmotions Of Lava

...I’m not one to whisper,
I’d rather stay silent;
Emotions of lava 
erupt leaving their ash;
Pain peels out like magma;

I’m not one to whisper 
to hide a wicked scream;
Not blessed with a soft...
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Categories: octane, emotions, feelings, introspection,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberAfter a harvest of queensland cane

...I was awed by the noise..As breath indrawn.? Of mighty
Giants in unseen form..' immediatly after grew the
Vivid lemon walls..towering ramparts a firestorm! fissures
Of red, glints of blue..With a ...
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Categories: octane, appreciation, education,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAppreciation

...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: octane, appreciation, celebrity, dedication, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy 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: octane, cute love, for her,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberPaddy

...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: octane, dog,
Form: Prose

Magic Patrick

...Written By:  D. Collins 11/21/22


Magic Patrick


Magic Patrick can pull a rabbit from a hat.
No matter how far down, he always comes back.
Runnin...
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Categories: octane, football,
Form: Rhyme

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

Premium MemberKindred Spirits

...Yours is my sacred non-zero soul
core center shared
within

Surrounded by your robust
fertile 
masculine energy

Not to exploit
and yet not too shy

Not too retractive
nor extractive,
eq...
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Categories: octane, deep, health, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse

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