Short Stately Poems

Stately,slender trees-
Procession towards heaven
From the woods uphill...

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Stately red crowned cranes

prancing in the snowy field ~

my tallest sister....

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courage in cat form
strolls solemn serene stately---
Dionysian pet


11 April 2022...

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red oak stately grows
twenty foot high drop acorns...
roundup works daily...

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They know

See the stately trees 
Standing, silently watching
They know, yes, they know...

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The grass

Though growing underneath
The grass does not take offense
At the stately oak tree...

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Sara Hortence
a stately name
for a stately lady
she drove the fellas crazy
with her new mercedes...

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splendour,
luxury
and much fine art-
in abstentia-the
gentry

Inspired when  visiting stately homes...

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stately on roofline
pink-sapphire sunset below
the blue-topaz sky

1/26/2019...

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Tree
Soft Heroes
Bark giants
Truth rings tell time.
Ancient Warriors
Regal Magic
Bird Refuge
Stately
Breathe...

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I am unable to comprehend
How your physical remnants were found
With a stately essence of womanhood
A mother’s end....

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What I miss at this old age
is sitting high like some tree sage,
in a stately southern oak
not thinking of being rich or broke....

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Regally displayed
Rich crimson, her royal robes
Stately Maple stands






Inspired by Brian Strand's Images of Fall contest....

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Winters freezing wilderness.
   Icebergs gliding silently.
   Mirror stately sailing ships.
   Frozen into ice.
  
 


   11/ 7/ 2015....

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Brightly Humble

Stately sunflower following the light with reverence-


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form: Monoku...

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Stand tall stately palm.

Straight high slender with long leaves.

You symbol of victory!...

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The tree stands stately
A thousand rings betray age
The birds sing like sages
Gnarled trunk suffers all weathers
Light dew moistens bird feathers...

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Here is a stately nook,
in various degrees of wear;
Flowers, shells, and myriad designs
grace o'er our good old books....

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Frilled edges of flora in bloom
Along my garden’s fences
Sweet scent of peony perfume
Invades my senses
They dance on stately stems
Pink skirts ruffled at their hems...

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in the far corner
of a local pub
in a narrow passageway
between once-stately brownstones
in an abandoned shack
midst a darkling woods
there breathe
secrets of
quiet folk...

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Stately in form and poise,
Swimming, so beautiful,
So magnificently
She moves, without effort,
Soft feathers gleaming white,
Serene in the sunset.
Stunning all who see her....

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Gazing across her stately field of daisies, this domain..
Gathering love's bouquet arranging they a repose's vase
In heart's boudoir a shooting star; sitting, atop Scarab's sill....

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As poets make their final search
for the lost syllables of fall
and wet branches of the stately birch
point out foliage is out of style
youngsters dream of holidays and smile....

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stately blue jay waits
calmly swoops down from tree limb-
squirrel loses nut

January 18, 2021

Contest: A Cardinal, Blue Jay, Or Chickadee
Sponsor: Tanya Kitchin
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In lemon and green
She stood
Wide eyes with red lustrous lips,

Carved brows like the African bow
Stately like a giraffe.

All eyes moved as one
To behold the queen
In lemon and green....

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