Best Chinatown Poems
ChinatownChange fills the air,
Here as we stroll;
Imprints and fares,
Noisy trades poll;
Ancient affairs,
Tales of China;
Old alleys bare,
Wild agendas;
Note the bazaars,
Treats on the streets;
A kindred star,
Lanes that now greet;
Explore quaint food,
Sense ample good.
Leon Enriquez
29 October 2014
Singapore...
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Categories:
chinatown, blessing,
Form:
Sonnet
A Teacher In Chinatown SfThe most beautiful days in my life,
Living in San Francisco near that
Bridge, the Golden Gate!
Days of well behaved children in
classes that had no strife.
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Categories:
chinatown, education, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
ChinatownOld roads paved once again,
New patchwork paint meets rain,
New trace of ancient strains.
Old buildings in new bloom,
Urban landscape frames boom,
Old hues in modern gloom.
New patterns in old style,
So many facelifts pile,
Juxtapose such odd smiles.
New ways to use old times,
Ventures of some sort chime,
Money makes odd...
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Categories:
chinatown, allusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Kabbala In ChinatownSearching for G-D in
the asphalt jungle
I walk through Chinatown
Amidst my Chinese brothers and sisters
I fall back into memories
of my former Chinese girlfriend
She was a Roman Catholic
yet I remember her saying the...
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Categories:
chinatown, break up, travel,
Form:
Free verse