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Premium Member Esplanade, Singapore
So swiftly now, so much of change;
Time yields endow, time feels so strange.


So quickly here, so change feels strange;
The times brought cheer, the feel of...

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Categories: esplanade, change,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Find Me In Six - Tranquility
Find Me where the summer breeze is sighing.

There time floats me in its endless sea.

Engulfed am I - by sweet tranquility.

On a lofty esplanade, gulls...

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Categories: esplanade, paradise, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and...

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Categories: esplanade, dark, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
A Friend
A friend is one who you can trust
To be always kind and always just.

When you are lonely or afraid,
A friend will be your colonnade.

When truth...

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Categories: esplanade, best friend, devotion, friend,
Form: Rondeau
Fathers, Come, Save Our Souls
an half-part of his face
painted white as of spirits
& the other side being human
he steps into the esplanade
isn't he the symbol of deity?
didn't ikenga his...

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© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: esplanade, confusion, depression, natural disasters,
Form: Elegy



9-11
I was home from work that day. 
My office was on John Street
One block away from the World Trade Center
I would often go there at...

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Categories: esplanade, history, life, lossworld,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bedtime On Tramp - Part One
He woke down the slope, by the hay
With him a thousand shrill cries
That stilled to him, yawning.
He moved with strands of hay, trailing
On his rags.
Sauntering,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: esplanade, life, time, time,
Form: Narrative
The Inner Voice of Mark Birros: Excerpt From Epic Poem.
With that invisibilty of age
I can fly my life like a kite !
Uninvited and unseen,
albescent, grey, you know what I mean,
( not the first flush...

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© Roy Austin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: esplanade, introspection, life, love, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Six
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake- Part Six

Awake! Dour Dreamer! And draw the curtain of benumbing clouds
Fairies hover by ears to whisper mantras dispelling doubts
Already unheeding...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: esplanade, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Summer Storms
A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a...

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Categories: esplanade, city, summer,
Form: Blank verse
Circus
Stands a beautiful tree firmly with its gracious branches and boughs 
On a bank of a running or on an edge of round pond 
May...

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Categories: esplanade, giggle, stress,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Delta Queen
Excitement filled the air as the calliope played
News spread the famed steamboat was near,
Its whimsical gingerbread trimmings displayed.

The whole town would rush to the esplanade
As...

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Categories: esplanade, boat, music, river, summer,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Haiku Surreal 6
Loiter here
Linger there;
Going nowhere


Stormy weather
Merciless rain;
Drives people indoors


Waiting moves slowly
Grumbling is fast;
What's up doc?


Unfinished sloth
Idleness piles plenty;
Rude awakening


Passion
Tension;
Option


Too soon
Too late;
Too much


Memory makes
A jumbled odd picture;
More...

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Categories: esplanade, allusion,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Merlion City 8
MARINA BAY WALKABOUT


Saturday night tour walkabout:
You and I stroll briskly along
To check the lights with the big crowd
With carefree souls pushing sing-song!

By transit train, we...

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Categories: esplanade, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member After the Summer Ball
The last dance is over, the summer ball fades away
It's early morning as we walk along the esplanade
The love of my life in the most...

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Categories: esplanade, love, passiondance, beautiful, sweet,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs