Best El Dorado Poems

Men have searched throughout history
For a city made of gold
So much in fact it has become legendary
This city that has yet to unfold
Some have even died I am told.

The story says, a chief had an initiation
Covered in gold dust and jumping 
A lake bottom became...

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for as much as anyone would care to admit,

it all seemed rather molesting.

the skies held dominion over the peeled

despot of sunset.

women young and old shirked in peasantry

kissed two of their fingers.


they pointed at the cross of Christ

as their fingers dragged over their

body to make the...

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El Dorado
by Michael R. Burch

It's a fine town, a fine town,
though its alleys recede into shadow;
it's a very fine town for those who are searching
for an El Dorado.

Because the lighting is poor and the streets are bare
and the welfare line is long,
there must be something...

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