Flower Ottava Rima Poems

Flags    

Such a delicately beautiful flower
With a subtle refined and heavenly scent
It stands above the others like a tower
And its sweet perfume...

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Paradisiacal flower blessed with thorns,
bloody tongue holding such angelic prose;
The sweetest petals a harsh prick adorns,
a slight crack in perfection will impose;
Razor fine points cover...

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Soft dandelion wishes in Hades 
sprinkling passion softly into the wind;
Longing for love not dependent on fees, 
to experience this the rules I’d bend;
Just a...

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There was a time when only weeds survived
My green thumb as I tended soil and seeds
Plants so stunning, my nurturing deprived
Of the sunshine’s love, the...

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The tiniest flecks of darker color 
flourish me with vibrant intensity;
Pulling from abundance and from squalor 
they merge together reviving beauty;
With the deepest of roots...

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Oh, 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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Arbor of Wisteria and Clematis

Memory of appealing Wisterias
Uncovering the grand butterfly bush;
near the lilacs and lonely gardenias;
as the light essence of spring bring a rush.
little...

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Winter feeds the earth that brings the birth of spring
  Which knits fine attire for naked, blushing trees.
It clothes the bare limbs on which...

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Life’s cyclic existence from death to rebirth
best understood this season of burgeoning.
Flora, as Phoenix, rises from the sodden earth
in graceful flourish of death unburdening
itself with...

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Spring in all it's glory is now coming,                
with flowers...

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Farewell to “old man” winter’s cold embrace.
Hello to Mother Nature’s soft caress.
The smell of Springtime gladness is in place
as flowers do their dance in lilac...

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My mom was quite an all flower expert.
oh yes, she knew all those long Latin names;
I sighed- so to English she did revert.
Grow we...

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Tender heart of yours when in storm it breaks
Shower of melting cloud drenches sad eyes
Under trying test promise of trust wrecks
Flower called ardor drowns in...

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Sweltering in the sun, wishing for a warm rain
thirsty drooping flowers crave a refreshing drink
the brook dries up waiting for the rain to flow again
the...

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The 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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