Best Esplanades Poems

Strands’ fluid strength; bliss, distress, routineness plait,
Tears multi-colored seeded, love's wisdom grows.
Esplanades calico edge Shangri-la’s gate,
Memoirs in motifs bittersweet and rainbows.

Thruway taken true.., not meandering...

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Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for...

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Buttonhole Daisy 
            by Odin Roark

My city bud and I
How we love the long...

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MODERN SONNETS I

I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less...

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BLANK

blank face
blank stare
blank wall
blank fear
white glare
I disappear 

man at my back
100’s in my hair
a 1000 peg legs
I disappear

receptions polite desk
not all knives are in
museums behind...

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Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

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Perched on a cliff,
Towering from the sea.
Embracing a cool breeze;
Lima is the city.

Miles of pueblo jovenes,
Surround her heart.
Like a flock of sheep,
Not wanting to part.

Slums...

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Apricot Trees
David J Walker

My mother randomly spoke of the beauty 
She saw in trees that lined
The streets in town 

The boughs and branches placed
 in...

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The City Is a Garment
by Michael R. Burch
 
A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light,—
the city is a garment stretched so thin
her festive colors...

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Time twirls slowly,
when tragedy sunders 
antiquated wings—
maimed and eroded, becoming 
featherless angels, 
ferociously combatant, 
sparring to win, 
wandering in vacant division,
while penetrating the walls 
of...

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