Short Cygnets Poems

Swans gracefully glide
cygnets struggle to keep up
absolute beauty...

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Elegant is the white swan
Joined for life swimming along
When cobs and pens breed again
Then cygnets swim with them

Date: 1/21/2020
Contest: When and Then
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas...

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Soft, pure white feathers
Cover their grey downy heads
Giving protection.

Threatening talons
Or poachers cannot come close
When she spreads her wings.

‘Neath her warm shadow
Cygnets so safe and secure
Snuggle together....

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Soft, pure white feathers
Cover their grey downy heads
Giving protection.

Threatening talons
Or poachers cannot come close
When she spreads her wings.

‘Neath her warm shadow
Cygnets so safe and secure
Snuggle together....

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The swans

Calm, majestic
Proud and free
The white swans glide
On the inland sea.
Cob and Pen
With necks inclined
Guard their young
As food they find.
The darker cygnets
Paddle free,
Majestic creatures
Of the inland sea....

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Saw young swans tour ending June
in a pond of pending gloom.
Had some food to hand them soon
in the mood to mute the doom.
But they set back, let back room
for a soft sweet swan song tune
that I - had I seen it loom -
could and would have put attune
to this footage shot at noon.

( Here is the footage: https://www.instagram.com/p/BMi9UstjKLA/ )...

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SERENITY

Swans serenely gliding gracefully
Ripples radiating on the still surface
Lifelong loyalty faithful friends
No need for them to use dazzling displays
Rivals risk short shrift from her
Cygnets sleeping parents peacefully
Take time out to glide in solitude

Picture No. 4
15th December 2021
Alliterisen 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Joseph May...

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i am a Close relative of the goose and duck.
You’ll find me protected, respected like royalty,
halos ripple around me, Gently gliding wings outstretched in a breeze,
loyal, I mate for life - no two Necks here, just us whoopers forever,
atop feathers for a pillow our clutches nestle, Envelope, warmed by us,
whether svan or schwan, we’re pen and cob To our cygnets and swanlings....

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The evening wind is lifting the lake's waters into grey waves
On which are dancing the angled rays of the crouching sun 
Two black swans together 
Plough the waves towards their night time hiding place
They have each other
And tomorrow and perhaps many tomorrows more they will have each other
And perhaps many cygnets will busy their lives
One day, there is no doubt
one will be gone and there will be one...

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Upon the slow-flowing river,
Suddenly swans 
Scud quickly away.

From round the bend I gracefully glide,
I am the queen of them all.

And quickly my king arrives.

The dance of love begins.
We bob our heads, wings quivering,
Necks entwined.
Unruffled snow-white plumage.

In time my eggs are hatched, 
Cygnets are so cute.
How quickly they grow.
Now we are a royal family
Suddenly swans....

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Mom's
bosom,
milky pond,
nest, where divine
twin swans, with warm cozy wings, count twinkling
stars till cygnets return from deadly zones.
Behold, how swans
swell their wings
to warm
son.

(Syllable count: 1/2/3/4/5 – 5/4/3/2/1, howmanysyllables.com)


*A 1st Place* in the following contest (judged on Feb. 28, 2021)

Feb. 19, 2021
Double Tetractys 7 Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Eve Roper...

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A pond quivers in demure gusts,
cygnets of morning light undulate 
with lithe ripples.  Winter thaws,
the sun arcs over feathered rainbows 
as ice sculptures bevy like water lilies
on April's frigid cobalt.

In abrupt squall webbed feet prance 
on a mirror, capturing saffron exhalations 
of rapt poppies, a wild umbrella splayed 
like tumultuous cumulus, ending a reflection 
of snow angels promenading 
in boundless cerulean....

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