Best Couplet Poems

The morning rays of the Sun cling
On the upper bow of the Rainbow
Emerge after a moment ‘s dusk
Brown Pelicans and Western Gulls
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Part I

INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a true Taste is as rare to be found as a true Genius. That most men are born with some Taste, but spoiled by false education. The multitude of Critics, and causes of them. That we are to study our own Taste, and know the limits of it. Nature the best guide of judgment. Improved by Art and rules, which are but methodized Nature. Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets. That therefore the ancients are necessary to be studied by a Critic, particularly Homer and Virgil. Of licenses, and the use of them by the ancients. Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them.
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A Recipe(Uneven Couplet) -
The uneven couplet is paired lines of different length
rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered.
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Roses, rooted warm in earth,
Bud in rhyme, another age;
Lilies know a ghostly birth
Strewn along a patterned page;
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This Sonnet is in the popular Petrarchan Form

I behold thy love as beautiful thing,
In my wrecked heart, a pleasure garden,
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Heroic Couplet Form On Mending Self
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Now neighbors are too far
And have closed the door
So there is a tone of horror
Echoing no more, no more
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Forget-me-not, I felt how fair you be
the pleasing mien of you still haunts my eyes
though I must stay away from where love lies
so many flies they make it hard to see
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To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
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Why is this sonnet form so dear to me?
this silent cloister of the singing heart
where I may be myself in sanctity
yet meet beloved strangers there in art;
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Huzza! Hodgson, we are going,
Our embargo's off at last;
Favourable breezes blowing
Bend the canvass o'er the mast.
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Who stop bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the brain,
Who help bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the same brain,
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Though the attackers are many in number
The escaper is courageous and clever
So the attackers have failed to harm that
The escaper has befooled them in fact
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Fire is empowered to burn
The things come in relation,
But the wise keep themselves
Far from fiery evil occurrence,
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One evening on the banks of the river, I saw the LIFE
Flying like a bird, trying to cross the horizon.

One evening in a flower garden, I saw the LIFE,
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in thoughts of you, peace found
in surrender, bliss unbound...

21dec2009
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A Modern Talking Bird
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A modern talking bird
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As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew
From Nature, I believe 'em true:
They argue no corrupted mind
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Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame
Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;
France could not even conquer your great name,
But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase-
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O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse!
with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep;
to sleep, to dream, I never am averse -
to slumber numbed by poet's numbers deep;
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I.
In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool,
There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air,
A faery city 'neath the potent rule
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I
A night the half-moon was like a dancing-girl,
No, like a drunkard's last half-dollar
Shoved on the polished bar of the eastern hill-range,
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'Midst the men and things which will
Haunt an old man's memory still,
Drollest, quaintest of them all,
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earth connections, disintegrate
soul connections, reintegrate

24dec2009
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I started a poem with a serious intent…
but who would ever guess the mess, and where that poem went?

I’d barely writ a line so fine, when the poem turned to me,
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A COUPLET OF PABLO NERUDA HAD INSPIRED ME TO COMPOSE THIS POEM. COMPOSED ON 8TH OCTOBER 1980.
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Oh beauty! Thy face is
Slumber and pale so deep
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Hindi Original~

Goree soye sej pe, mukh pe daare kes
Chal Khusro ghar aapne, rain bhayi chaudes
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Beat the drum,
Sing the couplet,
Freedom is not because of you,
It is in spite of you,
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Our bard, to modern epilogue a foe,
Thinks such mean mirth but deadens generous woe;
Dispels in idle air the moral sigh,
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May sonnet ever match sonata form?
whose opening movement catches restless mind;
whose new and ever-fresh harmonious sound
puts spark in eye and ear, and feet on ground;
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Je viens revoir l'asile ou ma jeunesse
De la misere a subi les lecons.
J'avais vingt ans, une folle maitresse,
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As you see there is a great fall
Let love stretch its hands being universal
Let us love each other and all,
It has a great power see you will
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Martin Luther King was not a king.
He did not have horses, a crown, or anything.
He preached a lot and had a dream
Of everybody eating ice cream.
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(Heroic Couplet On Xanadu)

Xanadu where the best is equity
As it is a place of beauty,
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A Love Couplet
To my beloved wife

By midnight, I reach for your body
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It's a bit like a trip in a hot air balloon -
the hot air of thousands of years of
poets poetizing; all trying to float a little higher than the everyday,
just a little lower than the angels -
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Please see notes BEFORE reading

Those only interested in the second part explanation on differences in female/male thoughtmodes may scroll down to the highlighted couplet below:
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I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in song
An' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,
I likes fer uvver coves to come along
An' biff the lyre in company wiv me.
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Heroic Couplet For Butterfly
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Flapping your multi-colorful, soft wings
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Written in gold
I forgot the one
The other said
“Crime is the expression
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They came each
to the Coupler
to seek
their Hearts Desire-
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Perfectly fused ideas and conceits
Of minds fabulous in lines sweet.But
Feet, meters and syllables
Often treat very strangely.
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The Couplet Against Wars And Crimes And For Humanity
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No way wars, any wrong doings may be qualities,
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The more ways I find to express my love,
The more I love you, and the better for love,
And more: What more than seek such ways to it;
Expressing love (and therefore to do it) .
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Buttercup,
I am the fluxing
structure that connects.
You and I are a universe,
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Heroic Couplet For The Mind Of Hypocrite
January 29, 2019

Mind of hypocrite is a burning hell
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Heroic Couplet For The Share Of Love
June 11, 2019

With love in the world the creatures come
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When bakers packed twelve plus two more to claim
One dozen, a sonneteer sets fourteen
Sweet lines arrayed in an eight plus six frame,
And the magic marvels and ever-green
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karmic connect, loan brought forward
cosmic connect, deposit fixed

29dec2009
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G - -Goggled glance and naughty bearing
H - -Honest in his nature
U - -Unlike some, his soul is daring
L - -Level in his stature
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The Couplet Number 1001
September 27, 2019

Time is the great healer to the right
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Couplet - 101
May 21, 2019

True color has colored me
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(Heroic Couplet On Zenith And Beneath)


By this time you should have been at zenith,
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I am back again with a new thought and new frame of mind and emotions....because for me without feeling anything I just can't write and I want to jot down the thoughts which are disturbing me right now......I was wondering what love is....Why is the range of love so restricted....Love is not about a man and woman relationship.As I thought, I found my thoughts in a far wider horizon where I was breathing liberally cauze ultimately I snapped ties with the one feeling called love towards your man.....Love has more wider range and perspective...After snapping out of a deep rooted emotional relationship I was able to look at love with a different perspective. The love for your God, the love for your country, the love for the nature the love for the people you hardly know...Love..such a beautiful emotion... suffocated in few relationships where you neither get to breathe nor express because of possesivness which is very harmful in a relationship. A relationship where you are ruled and dominated and ultimately you land up snapping out of every other relationship, which was your lifeline at certain juncture of your life.....

We see families breaking up, we see marriages breaking up just because one is insecure about the person they love and try to bind them with demanding promises.....I discovered this in my long journey of complicated relationships. One has to give space, freedom of thoughts, respect the other person...otherwise your so called love life will just crash very badly.Later on it will be just a relationship of compromises and adjustments as you can't come out of the suffocating relationship because of the families, society n children who always keeps an unwanted marriage bound..Sad indeed...but that's the truth of life..
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Being kissed by the artist, she shrieked:
"What's with you? " and the lady was piqued
"What can I say...
I got carried away..."
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Not least a straw lowly treat—
As dust under treading feet,
A peck might fly off, fall in eyes,
Make them bleary, better be wise.
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Abdur Rahim Khankhana (or simply known as Rahim to his admirers) was one of the Nav Ratnas (Nine Jewels) in Akbar's court. He was known for his philanthropy. Once Goswami Tulsidas, renowned poet and the composer of the great Indian Epic ‘Ramcharit Manas' sent him the followingcouplet through a courier in praise of his generous nature:

Where did you learn to be so philanthropic, Sire, tell me please.
That your eyes look down while raising your hand to give charities.
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New anthropophagous are now living
Where modern civilization is acting,
The anthropophagous are burning
To eat the innocent human beings
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Nature’s seams of seasons en plein air sur terre
orbit of harmony en plain air sur terre

Primavera, our eyes rise for your coming
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By your land I reside
From your food I eat,
I lay egg and rear kid
Protector is my God,
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Heroic Couplet For Life And Death Are The Two Aspects
February 3, 2020
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The Follower (Couplet)
June 15, 2019

This is the way has gone to paradise
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Black And White (Couplet)
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As pen and paper have come
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Couplet For My Pet
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My pet
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I would like to re-submit this exhaustive list of terms associated with poetry and hope that members will make use of the list to understand different kinds of poetry in a better way.
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O fils du Mincius, je te salue, ô toi
Par qui le dieu des arts fut roi du peuple-roi!
Et vous, à qui jadis, pour créer l'harmonie,
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Oh Khusrau, the river of love runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns, and one who drowns, gets across.
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Slowly, O thou fleeting mind,
Slowly the ways of world wind;
You may pour down plenty a pot,
Season comes come fruits on the dot.
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An ill-informed fool, what to state?
Kabeer feels shy of such a fate.
Like dancing ‘tis before a blind—
Futile an art, vain one may find.
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The greatness of a Guru
Is beautifully expressed
In this famed couplet of Saint Kabir.
"Guru Govind Dou khade Kaako Laagun Paayam,
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All the oppressors are the same
Who hide their real figures under frame,
They are brainless cowards
Irrational and worthless stupids,
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The Couplet # 1
February 25, 2020
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If patriotism really is in brain and mind
All superstitions, crimes instantly go out
Let's grow there the great patriotic zeal
And we do never ourselves lively kill
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To reach the truth
Only one path,
One opinion
And not more than one,
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Why do you pour hemlock in my cup?
Why do you threaten me of death?
I am not the philosopher Socrates
I am the good one of your soulmates,
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The Last Heroic Couplet(In Iambic Pentameter) In 2018
23 December, 2018

That you're in this age of science so fool
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Beauty, beauty, beauty and beauty is everywhere
But real beauty is very rare
And spiritual beauty is with some counted people
Observation and survey are though personal
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O to die old man, tasks left un-leaven,
To return— a fake coin to this planet;
Work harder, yet more mileage points to earn
That heaven calls goodly deeds done to date,
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If this home by home-maker is made,
He mused on this existential dark:
Who am I, one that brings home mere bread?
The truth stared at him ever so stark!
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He whose health lives longer than lasts his cash,
Limbs lasting long to cheer jolly good years,
He that can laugh like a loud lightning flash,
Fortune and fate good friends, who has no fears,
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If half my happiness should hail from cradle—
Be it peacock's rain dance or cuckoo's coo,
Be it a frugal meal's caressing taste,
Retiring or rising sun at seashore,
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Me-mine no more, worries off shore,
Mind care-free, a bird unbound;
He that wants nothing ever more,
An emperor he's uncrowned.
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I rememeber that night when death was so near.
I remember being in your arms whispering in your ear.
I remember the tear filled eyes and unhappy faces.
Thinking to myself ' why here of all places? '
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Venus’ revenge hath begot,
vile designed abhorrent plot.

Phoebus oggles Leucothoe’s cleave.
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Love Is Happiness(Bowlesian Sonnet)

Bowlesian Sonnet or Australian Sonnet is attributed to English poet,
William Lisle Bowles (1762 -1850) whose book of 14 sonnets published
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The Triune(Chained Threesome Sonnet)

Chained Sonnet--a quatorzain, using any sonnet form
Each line begins with the end word of the previous line
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Heroic Couplet For Modern City
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They show me this is the modern city
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Pastoral Love In The Heroic Couplet
December 13, 2020
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Emotion And Motion - Couplet
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Emotion always causes motion
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More they want to remove darkness
More the darkness does approach,
More they want to mitigate chaos
More the chaos messes all in dense.
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Scientists of weapons! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Weapons of destructions! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Destructions of humans! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Destructions of societies, civilizations! ! ! !
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Turning rosary beads lifelong bound—
A long playing record round and round;
What if mind's stuck up found—
Way far, least worship-wound,
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Maya, nor mind have ever been dead,
Nor hope, nor yet aspiration,
Bodies did over and again,
Daas Kabeer has so said.
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Never enquire of a saint's caste,
Query for sure his knowledge vast,
Put price upon a goodly sword,
Leave alone sheath and scabbard.
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