Roseate Skimmer
roseate skimmer
pretty rose pink dragonfly
females orange-brown
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Categories:
roseate, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Roseate Spoonbills
roseate spoonbills
colorful feathered flyers~
cotton candy pink
April 10, 2022
Wild Animal Haiku Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
checked with howmanysyllables
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Categories:
roseate, bird,
Form: Haiku
One Roseate Portrait of Your Smile
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 you
Yea! Thy beauty finds me vex’d,
As tho’ some poet never
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Categories:
roseate, bereavement, desire, emo, love,
Form: Free verse
Roseate Dew
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 blush,
She sings harmony in a whispered hush.
Form: Ottava Rima
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Categories:
roseate, love, nature, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill
Pink wadding bird rosy lushness showing, glowing.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010
Poetic form: Monuku
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Categories:
roseate, nature
Form: Monoku