Quantum Thoughts

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2009 Poetry



Blue marble swirling in the dust,

hung in darkness eerie.

Locked in its arc of burning ball,

has had many theory.

Molten heat inside a crust,

can make ones eye teary.

I wonder why it doesn’t fall,

making my head weary.




Author's Notes/Comments: 


Common Octave


Written in alternating lines of tetrameter and trimeter (8 & 6 syllables) the Common Octave is an 8-line poem (or stanza).


The rhyme scheme is: a, b, c, b, a, b, c, b

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