I was stuck in the boondocks with a broken down vehicle for a week, but now I'm back to civilization, where the internet is freely available. I wrote a number of poems to match each day in July, for the purpose of writing a poem a day for a year. Posting will be a bit haphazard.
Day 1-written July 1:

be my attempt to write an Octina. This form is of the Sestina family. It has 8 words used in each phrase, one per line. The Pattern follows: ABCDEFGH  HADBCGEF 

FHCAEDBG  GFEHBCAD   DGBFAEHC   CDAGHBFE  ECHDFAGB   BEFCGHDA  A/B G/E D/F C/H(last 4 have all 8 words) . A strict Sestina is Iambic Pentameter. A future Octina will do so.

Octina: How To

So what do you think of numbers?

What about poetic phrases?

A poem does not have to rhyme.

Alliteration can make it.

Letters set along little lines.

Sounds are set out as parts of speech.

One line sentences or broken

Into a fine lined Octina.

How do you make an Octina?

It is all done with the numbers

One through eight, each line you make it

A word. They then make eight phrases.

Remember, it does not have to rhyme

Unless you want it to. A broken

Enjambment keeps thoughts within lines,

Read aloud to sound like a speech.

Are you getting tired of my speech?

There is more to this Octina.

 You can try an internal rhyme

Just don’t slumber with the numbers.

Don’t forget to connect all the lines.

Yes, it is long, but don’t give it

Up yet. Keep working the phrases.

It can still be fixed if broken.

Yes, it might look to be broken.

It may not sound like a fine speech,

But what’s important are the lines.

Each part make up the Octina.

Moving words around the phrases

Can make it hard to make it rhyme.

Don’t fret it, just use the numbers

To make it work, then you’ve done it.

If you need some help to write it,

Try music to fix a  broken

Writer’s block. Then work the phrases

Out into a fine sounding speech

Of a poem. Make the numbers

Work for you. You will find the lines

Write themselves in an Octina.

You might eventually rhyme.

Take time too, for an internal rhyme

A real strict meter can make it

Hard, but remember the numbers

Are the point. a sentence broken

Is okay. Make the Octina

Alive with sounds in the phrases

Using all the figures of speech

Within the framework of the lines.

The Octina has two more lines

Than the Sestina. Neither rhyme

Typically. The Octina

Is a poem, a form and it

Is also challenging for speech

Making. Now just take the numbers,

Move them around. Even broken

Sentences can make good phrases.

We’re almost done with the phrases.

Combine words in the last four lines

Then you’re through with your little speech.

Remember, there’s no need to rhyme.

Doesn’t rhyme? No, it’s not broken.

The phrases make the Octina.

You just might make a speech from it.

Make sure the lines match the numbers.

Match the numbers to the phrases

Then combine all the broken lines.

It does not have to be a speech.

Don’t rhyme, just make an Octina.