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Stately Poems - Poems about Stately


Premium Member The Stately Iris Flower
The Stately Iris Flower Bearded irises are tall and stately in form They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips A swollen stem where nutrients are stored at the hips Spring growth occurs, and then irises take a rest Further growth accruing very hard-pressed Leaf fans upward and roots downward in the soil Rhizomes...

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Categories: stately, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Stately Snapdragons
Delicate petals on stately stalks sway in the breeze, sweet, scented nectar attracts hummingbirds and bees. I watch them while sipping iced tea in my lawn chair, Snapdragons adorn my garden with a decorative flair. They're not fire-breathing blooms, standing in sunlight, proudly displaying a variety of colors, bold and bright. They grace my walkways in the seasons, spring and fall as...

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Categories: stately, beautiful, flower,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stately Blossom Towers
flowers dancing gaily on taller slender stalks wave to us passing cheerily, planted to color up gray garden walks remembering how merrily they'll light up our way stately blossom flowers written July 19, 2022...

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Categories: stately, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Once Tall and Stately
The tree was wracked with age, disease her branches missing bark and leaves Chill rains attacked -- it coughed, it wheezed Resistance gone, what good to grieve Once tall and stately, proud to be the loveliest of maple trees Her sap flowed rich throughout the Fall Delicious treat for one and all So sad to...

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Categories: stately, beauty, betrayal, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stately On Roofline
stately on roofline pink-sapphire sunset below the blue-topaz sky 1/26/2019...

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Categories: stately, sunset,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member A Stately Nook
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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Categories: stately, books, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stately Southern Mansions - the Senryu Style
~Stately Southern Mansions~ (Senryu Suite) Stately pretty homes Some beautiful still today Relics from the past Still a Southern pride If their wall could only talk What secrets could tell Standing some still tall Nice historical mansions Jewels from the past Trees so grand and lush Surround them all 'round Elegant stately grounds Pretty as picture Much loved and desired today Historic delight. Dorian Petersen Potter aka ladydp2000 copyright@2012 May.31.2016...

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Categories: stately, america, beautiful, history, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stately Southern Mansions
(Haiku Suit) Stately pretty homes Some beautiful still today Relics from the past Still a Southern pride If their wall could only talk What secrets could tell Standing some still tall Nice historical mansions Jewels from the past Trees so grand and lush Surround them all 'round Elegant stately grounds Pretty as picture Much loved...

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Categories: stately, culture, history, home, house,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Stately Elm
Elm once clad in gold Has shed its colorful cloak Awaits winter storms Bare limbs lifted heavenward As if in supplication. (2 Nov 2013) Entry for Francine Roberts' "Tanka Me...

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Categories: stately, seasons,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Stately Rose
Oh, how beautiful you are waving on your stem a perfect picture to behold Your attar floods my senses so sweet and fragrant deep musky scents that beguile me Your hips full and plump rose water or tea I make or rose scones to eat a chocolate I savour Standing in stately splendour full blooms reaching skyward I pluck one so that its perfume I can extract How can I...

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Categories: stately, beauty, flower, nature, rose,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Stately Pleasure Domes-A Constanza
Atlantic City has many a stately pleasure dome. Will your money go to the tables or the machines? Either way, there will be losing scenes. It seems like your money has no home. Down to Atlantic City you will always go. You place frivolous bets in the casino. Your money dissipates just like the sea foam. With every seven out or dealer’s...

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Categories: stately, adventure, loss, recovery from...,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Red Oak Stately Grows
red oak stately grows twenty foot high drop acorns... roundup works daily...

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Categories: stately, nature,
Form: Haiku
Stately Men
Fair as ever he doth ride Alas to meet his gal as she prepares to be his bride. He draws back a drink with an old pal they discuss their days gone stall time drifts by, the bride feels faintly in worry, her grooms last prodigal A man who's thought most stately On clock tower's side he glares in wow to realize what time...

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Categories: stately, adventure, funny, visionary, wedding
Form: Ballade

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