Aires Poems - Poems about Aires

...Oscar was from Argentina, Buenos Aires city: his “go to” word was “lindo, lindo”: Spanish word for ‘pretty’. ‘Lindo’ if you use big words, ‘lindo’ if you cuss: ´lindo’ is the garden gate, ‘l......

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...Easter Reading In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and had been blessed......

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...Born before the war The sky was sullen and sorrowful  was the mist smoke from hot cannons on crackling radios, people listened to  a man shrieking and thought  what a useless idiot my birth w......

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...Voyagers  The old ship rust stripped like a Sudanese mule doomed to carry fleeing people across a landscape of despair Why, she floats is a lasting mystery From one obscure port to another s......

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...Voyagers  The old ship rust stripped like a Sudanese mule doomed to carry fleeing people across a landscape of despair Why, she floats is a lasting mystery From one obscure port to another s......

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...My way (edited) the three famous tenors sang, MY-Way the fat one died, and the two others hates each other never appear in public together One looks like an aging matinee idol the other suff......

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... The things I feel, I struggle to express. The frustration that grows within me as if I was thrashing in the water trying to gain air. I just can't breach the surface. I can't reach but I keep fig......

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...Vuela (to my daughter) Let me sit by your side I have nothing to say I just want to be here which is where you are there aren't words I want to find to express what it means to me to have ......

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...The dreamers She has fallen asleep in the living room, watching TV I feel guilty should have joined her, but soap opera, do my head in Now, I am going to sit near her on the sofa and when she wa......

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...Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew's house In Liverpool, so he joined the U.S. to fight with the Allies A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant Now aren't you really glad ......

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...Argentinian Tango The night had been crying of icy tears on the window glass I kissed the glass a thousand guitars played in Buenos Aires the night Eva Peron died. From ignominy to a famous mis......

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...The transferable tourist The old ship striped like a rusty zebra one, that has survived the big storms and attacked by sea monsters how she still floated was a mystery. From one obscure port to......

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...Throughout my life I've noticed, That people like to talk; But though they like to talk the talk, Most don't walk the walk. Most folks think highly of themselves. Some more than they should. ......

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...Mississippi 1954 "Don’t you bring that no good So and so 'round here. If you bring him to ma door Bobby Roy and Billie Joe Will make him disappear." But Mother, I love him. ......

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...FLEAS Alarm clock shows Saturday 7 30. Yes, please! More sleep - a professional delight for this catcher of fleas. For the present, I’m working from home at my ease And my career ......

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