Sad Ottava Rima Poems

Evocative lines bring tears to the eyes.
Plethora of metaphors makes men think.
Emollient words soothe someone in his cries.
Furtive reading lets not mind quit and blink.
As...

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A solitary teardrop formed in my eye,
so I froze the flow of time, to learn the cause
of my sorrow when desires were flying high.
My conscience...

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Your friends would have viciously gossiped and jeered,
your parents have shouted: "No way, how bizarre!
What does he live on, to be sick he appeared?
Hands off,...

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The marionette spun and danced to the sound
played by the weary and weathered banjo man. 
She staggered with jerky leap and stuttered bound 
that thrilled...

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

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Our hopes sky high, we drove along the coast
We'd ask our folks their blessing for to wed
The bridge was out, perhaps the first signpost
Yet neither...

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Lonely soul sitting by a flowing brook 
Torn dreams and shattered heart, sullen despair 

Only to, never again would they look 
Forlorn, never again desire...

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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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Silhouette

Through opaque darkness, delving in the deep
as if to say life’s face we must forget
where shadows lurk in silent scenes to keep
an image not as...

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Houston

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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Amazing, how a summer rain will bring
old sorrows to my heart that hurt anew:
the dreariness that soon will seep and cling
as rain brings forth its...

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The willow tree wrapped you in its dark embrace.
Bark had kissed your shell like a dagger.
Emerald leaves stitched a new grace.
Rain fell that day, tearful...

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Dad is long gone now - nearly twenty years.
I still see his face with the deep lines etched
at the corners of his mouth from the...

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Parting


     Now is the bleak night of our sad parting;

     Now the dulled hours, sharpening your absence

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All alone she sat each day, no one called
Until a new neighbour moved in nearby.
Old lady looked so sad, she was appalled
Asked her to come...

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