Best Dominican Poems

Copyright © 2015
11.12.2015
9:18pm


This crazy rush hour traffic, traffic
like swimming the Caribbean Sea,
in these streets you don't wanna be.
Headlights brighter than spaceships,
spaceships, these drivers make you
wanna...

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i am from you have to work for it
from worthless and invisible
i am from hatred.

i am from 7
from black and white
i am from not begin...

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From the mountain's peak; the wooden flutes sound
the lamas leap and the water falls-- clear,
mindful, the wind's play on the Quechua's ground. 

The majesty of...

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Sue and I had lost contact when we left school and the Dominican Convent,
Met up ten years later, admitted both of us foolish, each nodded...

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One island;
one people, two nations
Dominican Republic
Haiti
An island split in two
by European colonialism,
a most vile economic mechanism
One part of the island
was controlled by France
The other part...

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The Gullah people drift with the tide,
existing by the Charleston seaside.
Their lives more often unduly harsh,
yielding and melding with the marsh.
Africans of Dominican voice impressed.
Tales...

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Otto`s life is not
their British
sickular motto
Grue is his banner
left by his
blue-eyed Brit mom
left long by one of
those hated South
African Paki
His guilty pleasures
in Green Street have
no...

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I just waved
At the fleeting 
Unenglish speaking
Dominican people

Unknowingly they
Went about their day
And in kind
I went about mine

But, still
I waved hello
And smiled within
As I wished them...

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(True feelings)

Not all culture are the same
If variety of different culture did not exist
Variety of history of life and different culture food would not exist....

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Amelia says that love is like an old Dominican couch, still wrapped in plastic, being 
pushed off a thirty-three story project building and waiting at...

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They say there's a first time for everything

My first time ever feeling the unsettling effects of an earthquake

Albeit, it was ONLY 5.8 on the Richter...

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PROFESSOR SILA, VICTOR SINCLAIR, AND ROCKY PATEL 
were scheduled to visit ARTURO FUENTE at the DREW ESTATE in ASHTON. 
However, the count of MONTE CRISTO...

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Catastrophe of the dry run

         The sea, Ice, air, human are rapture
     ...

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Til 2 A.M. 

One day a Dominican female gave her black guy friend two balls of chocolate.
Not just any chocolate but the kind can make...

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The Bad Priest
In Lyons (I think it was Easter, 1438),
I was a priest and somehow can recall
the dim church, the heavy clouds of frankincense
and the...

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