Roseate Poems


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
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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


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