Summer Ottava Rima Poems

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare

Summertime skies, the clouds passing on by
Revealing silhouettes in timeless mists
Smiling, risking...

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Slipping slowly across the sky,
Summer sun in hot sizzling bliss
Permits no hasty alibi,
Neither offers a gentle kiss,
While ample creams will justify
Protective lotions we dismiss,
So, lest...

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

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With dawn's light shining incredibly bright,
I woke to the trickle of melting snow.
Suggesting spring had arrived overnight,
dripping icicles set my heart aglow.
And though winter is...

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Goodbye dear summer with your warm embrace.
We’ll miss the nighttime breeze’s soft caress.
The pall of autumn’s lying on your face,
as trees begin their dance in...

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SUMMER AND SHOWERS 

           Caught in scorching Sun in severe summer.
    ...

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We knew we couldn't take the summer home
in globes of flakes just like a winter snow.
As falling sunlight faded into gloam

we stood upon the beach...

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To tiptoe through the aqua of his eyes
and feel unmoving waters in his gaze.
I watch his lashes lilting with my sighs,

and know their umber fills...

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Serotinal days, pouring rain eased drought
Some were blessed with right amount, others flood
While some enjoy late summer garden sprout
Some work to throw out piles of...

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My eyes squall with rain, sitting by my sill,
remembering days when July was warm-
I weep in woe finding it hard to fill
my soul with dawn,...

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When Rain Came to the Valley

In swelter’s grip, they struggled day to day.
Sweat dripped from them. They barely could keep sane.
In stifling rooms each night...

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The day began an infinite sky of blue,
my gentle garden all tranquility;
soon the sky went grey and sun said adieu,
rain fell on flowers of fragility.
It...

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INCESSANT SUMMER RAIN

In morbid humid summer heat I feign, easily drain
Prospecting for a cool, crisp meandering breeze
Conceivably, nature might spill a gentle "summer rain" 
A...

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Summer rain dances up in the sprawling trees
 midst the sun's unseen rays and clouded skies;
falling freely to the earth first autumn leaves
 covering the...

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Fast the clouds gathered and got too much charged
Profuse moistures had  by that time come close
Pink passion inside the clouds well enlarged
Two such blocks...

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