Best Aspens Poems

The copse of aspens quake.
Horses graze and cows laze
as languid summer splays
emeralds in its wake,
low fields to overtake
the prospect's cyan glaze.

Immutable the sun
in lambent saffron...

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Oh, splendorous, spectacular, resplendent autumn!

Boldly you dye cypress ~ flaunting ochre, cinnamon,
Yellowing sugar-maple, glazing tangerine emotions,

As scarlet winds warble in accents of majestic aspens,
Responding in...

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I've heard your whispers
in quiet moments 
amongst the shedding trees of Autumn..

I walk alone our wooded path – listening
the air just as crisp as a...

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If no longer could I inscribe, upon tapestries of rosy skies,
Dreams tinted violet, blossomed in themes amethystine,
And no longer could I weave-in the dreamscapes of...

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I find sanctuary in this sonnet
when as verdant hills rhymes do fall and rise
with aspens quaking in the windless skies.
One such will have blue birds...

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Think, children: what will you tell
your grandchildren when they ask
about Earth--once bursting green
and red and yellow with blossoms
everywhere, and bushes serene 
in shadows of lime-colored...

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Written: September 19, 2023

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. James...

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We are the high altitude sentinels.
Our small groves freckle the high plains.
We keep to ourselves, mostly
upon the snow burdened peaks
where our ashen trunks blend
and our...

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lodgepoles pines fall 
dead, beetle attack, new life
emerges -- aspens...

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Endings or beginnings, there's reason for change
circling around me, are seasons, rearranged
As we say farewell to our place in the sun
Goodbye to our cove on...

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When the fall came we knew everything had changed.  Whispers through the Aspens became a shrill voice of winters warning.  He was changing...

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Mountain of a thousand colors
clothed in Autumns dress
kiss the earth 'O' Wondrous mother
painted world - flora's caress

Trembling giants bathe in light
quaking Aspens touch the sky
as...

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where aspens huddle
in dense woods or open heaths
I often linger...
the shimmering foliage
my inebriated soul

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The day that followed . . . 

Blossomed blue, bright . . . beautiful
	Clouds towering into the heavens
	Wheeling white, wonderful . . . wordless

	
The clouds...

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whispers of the wind
through tall shimmering aspens
nature’s ode to joy 

written May 7, 2022 

FIRST PLACE WINNER
for "Nature Haiku" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Sotto Poet
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