Best Roseate Poems

Old-fashioned beauty kissed by morning dew,
In summer-rain her dreams reflect the sun,
And poets ponder magic she can do,
As worldly things the mind must surely shun,
Her thorns shall fight the heart that isn’t true,
Yet bring her tender kiss to love begun,
To poets gazing on her blooming...

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Roseate Spoonbill 

Pink wadding bird rosy lushness showing, glowing.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form: Monuku...

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roseate spoonbills
  colorful feathered flyers~
    cotton candy pink



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Was e’er a moment held so calm,
To dull and silhouette our lives,
Like Tithoneus weeping with the dawn,
Should find Elysium in those eyes

Uncloth’d, my mind in tearful thoughts concedes,
A vision of thee ‘neath the moon,
I gently press my will toward thee,
And ever vex my soul with...

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roseate skimmer
pretty rose pink dragonfly
females orange-brown...

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