Best Aquiline Poems

A scented paradise of floral escapes 
beneath a blue Cerulean sky 
Azure thoughts of you aside the river 
flowing through my senses 
like rivulets of...

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When I was a little girl,
Mother said to me
on my dad’s side there had been
a pure Cherokee.

I felt so proud that I had
in my ancestry
blood...

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I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between...

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I love how your long chestnut hair flows over your gentle shoulders,
And when the sun searches you out for a moment, your hair sparkles…

Because I...

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Flying airships battling in the open sky,
 the sailors trying to save their own lives, 
and all the panoplies of war revealed in broad daylight
...

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A Limerick response to Gershon’s “Hair Apparent“
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Hair Apparent 

The loveliest girl in the world's named Rose
From aquiline nose down to graceful toes --...

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Whining Horse
	

This is the angry mind 
  Of a whining Horse 
All it does detest	
  Is the Race Course	
A reason there is	
 ...

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Emery

Emery had a nose of stone,
An outgrowth of his weighted mind.
Of alabaster was it honed
Into a feature aquiline.
Its heft was such that Emery
Would counterbalance with...

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Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX

Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch

The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to...

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She is, like seasons of my beautiful land
Smiles of spring, rain drops of winter
Impish of summer and giddy of autumn
Like a swift river her laughter...

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His fear he may have masked in front of the bear
But a metamorphosis had kick started in high gear
Hormones were pumping and changing his being
Transformed...

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Onward now to vanquish the behemoth
And bequeath the cataclysm unto your kindred
Some squishy doom lingers
On that lithe aquiline figure in the distance
Guttural pinks cannot fathom
This...

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Above the clouds and disappearing skyline
I was jetsetting on an international airline
That’s when I met a handsome Mr. Einstein
No kin to Albert, nose most perfectly...

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"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon...

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Greater Flamingo, you beautiful wading bird.
                 What a captivating...

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