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Octave Strain

Love oh love 
Cantar and Cantrix
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By : Luva Luva

Of love that is truest to me
might we speak than as
Lovers

Of love whom I stand grounded
and wish to be adorned through
the times we spend together

Of love might the nights be still
so that we can love forever

Of love than my love might we
strive to be as one

Might we condition our minds to
look to each tomorrow as each
new beginning has just begun
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The Thesbains Tale
Octave 0001
From the Book
A Stingy Man
By: Luva Luva

Mercury's Requiem

There was a young man named Fred
(the tooth fairy lived in dread)
a wild flamboyant from afar
the spice island Zanzibar
a singer he'd been
and sang a good song
with four-octave range
in the band called Queen
tho' considered 'strange'
with plus four in the upper jaw
he had more teeth than most
once nicely depraved
now dead and gone
when he gave up the ghost
shuffled offstage his mortal coil
was no more than toast
finally went bust
of him it was said,
'Another one bites the crust!'

Dave Risks Early Grave

Let us at Risk-Taking Dave
Lengthily rave 
For choosing to live in a cave
Also, The Choice of a Gorilla
That could demolish a stout slave
And wrestling Victory not release to a Godzilla …

To Risk-Courting Dave
Now in Echoing Cave
To improve on His high Octave
Mention that he’s risking an early grave
For not being The Muscularly Brave
That termites his fresh corpse shall crave
As he deigns to ways for it pave …

The soonest of requiems in a nave
For his life he never could save
With pleas Gorillas aside wave.


Drinking Morning Coffee Octave

drinking my hot coffee in the morning light
thinking back on that date I met my fate 
 everything around me seems very bright 
recalling how I met  her, became my mate 


in the afternoon I like to drink tea 
but in the evening it must be red wine 
just sitting there with my love becoming me 
as I sit there drinking she becomes mine

A Goddess of the Sea

To Zeus she is the goddess of magic
seaside mysteries
Beneath her golden tendrils
a flowing waterfall
She flies up to the Moon to sleep
in Orion's arms
Then tumbles back down to the sea
over skin of alabaster

Ripples of love float on moonbeams
golden glow
to skip across the dancing sea to stir
her heart of biotite
She loves to twirl across the waves
in arcs of joyful glee
And make phosphorous plumes like
iridescent candlelight

Misty nights she plays her harp of gilded
seaweed strings
Then sends aloft the liquid notes of
effervescent song
To all the stars above the oceans'
tranquil calm
That the universe may exalt
in her healing balm

For fun she shines the shore with a million
sparkling drops
While drifting between the currents
on winds' whispering call
It lifts her heart to feel the waves
blue breath of foam
As she swims with sisters in a frothy crest
of her magical sea

Octave Lines

O-ctave
L-ines
G-ive
A-nother

D-elightful
E-xpression
L-etting
O-de
S-hare

R-apture
E-rasing
Y-our
E-vening
S-hadow

Topic: Birthday of Olga L. Delos Reyes (June 29) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic


The Spinet - Italian Octave

Play this simple tune upon your spinet
so that I can know the notes well, my dear.
Restful music sounding sweet to my ear.
I am greatly eased and made charmed by it.
Home is truly most blessed by whole bit.
We sit listening while her tones are made clear.
Fine, well keyed, and gentle music we hear.
Showing perfect phrasing she's a great hit.

Togetherness - An Octave -Triolet

Dactylic Hexameter

My love for family I do not hide or set high on a wooden shelf.
Baubles of life are here having a jot influence over a rime of things.
One hawks a sweeter enticement diverting us like a small candy elf.
Placed in a closet of my heart it offers now no threat to inner self.
Booty that makes us rich seems a bit ornament gaining a shoddy pelf.
Family time is togetherness knowing the pleasures it often brings.
We talk but nothing unusual like blue and white on ceramic delf.
Time for a lady and children as husbands sit talking as royal kings.

Kite - An Octave of All Spondees

Go high my kite so right.
Seek thy sky flight, flow free.
Make thy way, find breeze light.
Take hold, wee prize, we see.
Tied tail needs airspace height.
Make sleek line tight, jolt me.
Please find wayout, gain space.
Show Lane they windswept grace.

Sweet Words - Sicilian Octave

Your sweet words given me past time do play
with ease upon this happy mind again.
Together we can take a stroll this day
and I'll relate to you some lofty gain
That lofty gain is you dear Joan, come stay
with me forever through all life's rain
Then I'll give you things o'er my joyful way
and you'll have life that's ne'er been use in vain.

Alone With You -Sicilian Octave

"This time alone with you is precious, maid.

Could I but keep the moments sweet with you

from fleeting time’s demand that be not stayed.

All I’d give making veritas less true.

Since I lack power bidding time adieu,

love, I must seize the rose buds e’en what may.

Let me then speak of my heart’s pain anew,

of my constant thoughts tearing each spent day

zounds, into splintered pieces only you can stay.

Big Ben - Hymnal Octave

The tower’s high with striking chime
its clangor resonates.
With face of time now widely seen
clock’s scene thus viewed dictates.
Its dial white looks free of grime
new cleaning time awaits .
Loud presence yea with polished sheen
our day it regulates

Premium Member Remember His Promises - the Brace Octave Style

~Remember His Promises~
 ( Brace Octove )


 Pray for love, peace today
 Stay focus in God, heart, mind
 Remember Lord is kind
 God can help each single day
 And each step of your way
 Walk in His light, not blind
 Remember Lord is kind
 Love, worship pray each day.


 Dorian Petersen Potter
 aka ladydp2000
 copyright@2017


 April.24.3017


So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
John 3:16 (NIV) 

- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )

-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” 
 Exodus  14: 13  ( NIV )


“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 
- Mark Twain 



~Author's  Notes:

 The  "Brace Octave" is An eight-line stanzaic form or style of  English origin. The Italian octave is a subgenre of this.

An Octave of Reality

I find everyone riding the acme of jubilance,
but weeping at their inflated gloominess
Thy lords have created everything,
yet every pneuma is suffering
If you watch closely,
there is so much satire in this tiny sphere,
Every leaf that breathes,
hides an ache deep underneath.

Premium Member Remember His Promises - the Brace Octave Style

~Remember His Promises~
 ( Brace Octove )


 Pray for love, peace today
 Stay focus in God, heart, mind
 Remember Gods  good,  kind
 God can help each single day
 And each step of your way
 Walk in His light, not blind
 Remember  Gods good,  kind
 Love, worship, pray each day.


 Dorian Petersen Potter
 aka ladydp2000
 copyright@2017



 January.26.2017



So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 
1 Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 
John 3:16 (NIV) 

- Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer
Romans 12: 12 ( NIV )

-The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” 
 Exodus  14: 13  ( NIV )



“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 
- Mark Twain

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