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An ottava rima poem is a form of poetry that, in English, consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters, but there is more to an ottava rima. What is ottava rima in poetry (complete definition)?

Regal Reign

A subtle shift in the shadows of sunset exposes the splendid Moon as She rises. Just as a cunning gambler hedges his bet She shines Her best displaying Her surprises. She slinks across the restless sky, a coquette, limning traits...Read the rest...

Marvelous May

My heart sings in the marvelous month of May. Of the seasons' beauties there are none so fair as this princess who in sunlight loves to sway with warm breezes and with flowers in her hair. The greening of...Read the rest...

Diamond In The Rough

Life issues out many difficult trials For in each problem we face, lies a lesson In overcoming, we discover our smiles Accepting what can't change, our stress lessens We're born like a jagged diamond out of style Through storms and...Read the rest...

Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon

I step out from a second-story window, float along roads of slow-churning lullabies, raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow. A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes, mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow hugged around a thin...Read the rest...

Fervent Fresco

Sunburst sky’s spectrum the horizon’s brush smears on jade meadow wearing dew diadem new. Cradled by satin leaves buds blossom that cheers, as petals dance on the crescendo of hue. Beguiled breeze carries the fragrance as fog...Read the rest...

Religious fundamentalism

Conditioned since birth to follow a belief, brainwashed souls thrust upon all others their view, urging them to join their cult to get relief from suffering by paying to god their due, atoning for sin by turning a new...Read the rest...

out of darkness

Just where did you go to, my loved one, my dear, Leaving me lonely and without any hope At your departure I cried many a tear Over our once bright future with much to scope You left me in...Read the rest...

The Unsung School Bell

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Between Crisp Covers

Sweet sentiments stir softly between lovers Whispering winds woo the weeping willow’s limb Love and warmth linger between the crisp covers No longer walking along death’s scary rim Moonlight moments in midnight’s dewy druthers Silken...Read the rest...

An ethereal scent

Our memory recalled an enchanting scent, that once delighted and enlivened our soul, so we invoked grace, according joy consent, to manifest once again that we feel whole and thus with the bugle sounded for ascent, we rekindled the fragrance...Read the rest...

Handle With Care

Handle With Care Handle with care, treasure with ten tiny toes, Once protected in my warm, maternal womb. So fragile, so frail, so heaven only knows, where to find refuge in this wide world of doom. My Child, as...Read the rest...

The Haunting

"Deep silence lay heavy in the walls, floors, and even the bricks as I stood still listening ... knowing that death still lingered here." ...Read the rest...

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