Short Ottava Rima Poems

Feeling trapped, feeling so lonely yet so lost... 
I think I am loosing my mind. I feel as the world, is drowning me with doubt and with so much worries....

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around the world
there are boys girl
singing and jingling
christmas bell
you can tell
its love in the air
by the HOLIDAYS STOPPER
ITS
MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPER...

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Do the best in all you do
With all your strenght and skill
Let your work be clean and true
Giving your heart and will
Using your time wisely too
With none leftover to kill
So at the end of your working day
Your work is worth your pay...

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Wind on strings
whistles
Thunder beats 
on drums
Wolf solo sings
Rainfall hums
Owls hoot low
Striking lightning 
glows
In gentle murmur
a spring 
sings lullaby
to sleeping flowers


First Place Winner: Brian Strand July13 Contest...

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Threnody dirges miseries
Severance of machinations
The gravedigger’s shovel buries
These coffin crypt lamentations
Lachrymose welts filling levees
Life’s vile xenotransplantations
Psychopomp as a wraith’s whisper
Dust swept away by a zephyr...

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A lady named Ottava Rima
who hailed from Peruvian Lima
would write down her verse
then bellow and curse
All the structure just made her Scream-a!


2nd Place

Limerick Contest

Sponsor:  Cecilia Hopkins-Drewer

6/11/17...

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Jasper Johns saw the number eight,
And he was illuminated,
Then he started to speculate:
A lonely number should be mated,
I need something with more weight,
And the obvious he deliberated:
Paint with numbers my good man,
I’ll draw them from the colours in my can!...

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Blue butterflies dancing with me,
Old stars come down to kiss the earth,
The happy birds are flying free,
A time for perfume, endless mirth
New silver bells ring… Victory!
Snowdrops announce the new Spring birth.
Cherry blossom rise in splendor,
As the winter slow surrender!...

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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 we blister, we must care,
Protective shirts and sunscreen wear.

written May 28, 2021...

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PERFUME



Baby knows mother’s scent,
Find her in the dark, need be.
Mama’s strength’s  all but spent
But  baby nestles  on her knee,
Head to breast well-content,
Imbibes  perfume of  famiy tree,
Loving  there  her essence,  fragrance  -
World’s  best  perfume  in abundance....

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Went to the orchestra tonight,
All had tails, and gowns to floor,
Distinctive sounds, sounded right.
Came the end, conductor on guard,
Lady’s cleavage focused on;
Conductor’s baton now quite hard
All’s well that bends well, saintly true,
While conductor’s trousers? Steadily grew....

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Insisting one might was well be dead
Feasting upon dark emotional words
This is how the young have been led
Magnetic this compass for the birds
Signal sent be that of infrared 
Drawing them all in by the herds
This be part of their pseudoscience 
By misusing the cognitive science...

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"Gosh!,by heaven who is this again?"
He flew holding unto the wall as it's aid.
It leaped higher,when the light i on again.
He retrieved as the shadow fled.
My fist strucked the wall,
To have it on the tile fall.
But the more i hunt it,
The cockroach escapes it.
      18:01:30:22:53...

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Hurricanes twirl like a kaleidoscope,
chaotic fragments crash in pewter sky,
perpetual unstable isotopes

create apocalypse on land once dry.
Cacophony of wind does shear the hope
to quell hysteria in waters high.

The spiraled carnage in the wind does fly
outside the hollow of an evil eye....

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By a slender thread hangs my sanity.
I am dangling just above an abyss.
At any moment, I can fall freely
Into the clutches of a nemesis.
Short moments seem like an eternity.
I have never been in a place like this.
I will fall into deep degradation.
Please let it be my imagination.
...

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Misfit always out of step with the world,
Outsider longing to run forever;
Then into my reticent life you twirled; 
Proximity my only endeavor;
Eyes lit on fire and my appetite swirled,
there was no confusion whatsoever; 
The vampire in me kindled a sparkle,
Edward Cullen please make me immortal....

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For the winter carnival bundled up,
frozen breath adds to anticipation;
Steaming cappuccino filling my cup,
the vertex of this warm celebration;
Eliminate the need to be grown-up,
tonight enjoy a childhood fixation;
Indulge yourself in a ferris wheel ride,
an event leaving you all but tongue-tied....

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Your fabrications are all that ring true;
You do what you do holding a motive;
That bawdy neon sign reads ‘Ballyhoo’.
Why am I attracted to corrosive?
Patchwork display of broken art you drew,
complete picture is the gift that I give;
I can’t do artificially flavored
unable to stomach empty handed....

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At these freckled stars I sit and marvel,
some so delightfully microscopic;
A piece of this universal puzzle 
casts it’s spell over me so hypnotic;
Oh what a vision it leaves me tearful
with one gaze I’m left optimistic;
Your skin’s a doppelgänger of the sky, 
and it’s got me feeling recklessly high…...

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When serendipity ignites,
A fire burns within the mind. 
Attesting to one’s new insight. 
The soul with joy does quickly bind. 
Then, leads a man to great delight.
Approaching widsom’s glow refined.
When providence is thus amused, 
Intelligence becomes infused.

Ó November 17, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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WINTER

When  icicles  hang  by  the  wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
If those frozen spears should happen to fall
And miss the solid  milk in pail
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
They might the young man assail.

They  could pierce him  like a  knife
Could be  the end of  poor Tom’s life...

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Specific does do be this carrier wave
It was simply completed by thought
Around the world it will be the rave
Putting to an end all that had fought
In each individual to save
 The incoming blast all will be caught
Now initiating brand new rays
All that it requires is some initial  forethought...

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R-hyming verse written
A-nd poetry spoken have let
Y-our heart and soul open,
N-ot minding the woes and fret,
A-s the wide blue heaven
L-ets not your memory forget,
Y-our both eyes have read first
N-othing but the rhyming verse.

Topic: Birthday of Raynalyn Basabica (March 24)
Form: Acrostic Ottava Rima...

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Food shortage looms again the world over;
as war in Ukraine threatens wheat supply!
Globe faces the hurricane of hunger
due to hypersonic missiles that fly!
Modern weapon’s devastating power
lets both enemies and civilians die.
The rain of bullets coming from the gun
never lets mankind eat beneath the sun!...

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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 little taste of this oasis,
when is this unquenchable thirst to end? 
Two wildflowers in a field of lilac,
I will always find a way to come back. 
...

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