Best Staton Poems

By Valerie D. Staton


I love you…
More than Elmer loves glue
More than Bruce loves Kung Fu
More than Sara loves pie
You’re the apple of my eye

More than...

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CHICKADEE
By Valerie D. Staton

Outside my window in a maple tree,
I saw the most beautiful Chickadee;
Seated on a bough, the little songbird,
Sang the sweetest song I’d...

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A Curtain of Rain
By Valerie D. Staton

A curtain of rain
Fell from graphite colored sky…
Cars are floating by...

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Who Would Have Thought
By Valerie D. Staton


The first time we met I was a bit scared
To be in a union unequally paired

You smoked cigarettes, I...

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By Valerie D. Staton


Down a long winding road there lived Old Betty Ann
In an old wooden house, the color of sand

Her home was surrounded by...

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By Valerie D. Staton

Whenever circumstances go awry,
And it seems like you cannot catch a break;
Cast your cares on the One who sits on high,
Who's incapable...

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By Valerie D. Staton

My mind swims with thoughts of yesterday...
a day of unrelenting anguish and fist pounding sorrow
a day never to be forgotten
a day never...

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Stone Washed
By Valerie D. Staton

stiff denim fabric
attacked by gang of pumice - 
heavily distressed...

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Sounds in Everglades
By Valerie D. Staton

Across Everglades
A cacophony of sounds
Natural soundscape...

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By Valerie D. Staton

It pains me my memories are fading 
My parent’s memories were sharp as tacks
It is their recollections I am invading
I wish I...

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Crimson Maple Leaf
by Valerie D. Staton

Crimson Maple leaf
lackadaisically swirled
amidst a backdrop of blue...

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God Created Me For A Reason
By Valerie D. Staton


My mother did not initially want me
Tried to spontaneously abort me
But the God who sits on high...

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Nature’s Regiment
By Valerie D. Staton


Nature’s regiment
Adorned in camouflaged suits
Brown and android green
Bravely battle brazen winds  
Defeated by acid rain...

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Transform me Oh Lord into a new creation. 
Cover me with grace and mercy each day and night. 
Lead me Lord into Thy hands.

Valerie D....

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Between A Crevice
By Valerie D. Staton


Between a crevice
I spy a city that thrives;
Trucks meander North
Pedestrians move, along
sidewalks the color of sand...

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