Barra Poems - Poems about Barra

Bob

...Bob

A diva without a tiara,
Unbreakable even by Barra.

Greedy for space,
for light,
for love.

Supplying my shade,
my air,
my wonder. 

My keeper of tales to tell nought,
My indefatig...

Categories: barra, care,
Form: Free verse

Oh My Brazil So Mainly Weird

...São Paulo is a

long street that

crosses Brazil

with its "trade"

infernal...

Rio is a stage

lit where

the popcorn maker of

corner, it's handle

of samba and the madam

from...

Categories: barra, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Auto Da Fe At the Plaza Major

...Auto-da-fé at Plaza Major



Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
that failed to quench the civil mob.
...

Categories: barra, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cupid Sets Hearts On Fire

...Every February fourteenth,
(reference Gregorian Calendar see
High Middle Ages his Saints' Day)
which combs thee
day after morrow aye decree

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
mine near one and same
m...

Categories: barra, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification

Auto De Fe' At Plaza Mayor

...Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
failed to quench the civil mob.

Above the birthday cake façade,the p...

Categories: barra, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Rightfully Amazing

...R-eader
I-n
C-lear
E-yes
L-ets

B-eautiful
A-crostic
R-emain
R-ightfully
A-mazing

Topic: Birthday of Ricel Barra (July 17) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

Categories: barra, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Feeding the Strawberries

...Charlie and Arthur Johnson are not milking cows no more,
they’re running beef and sheep along with free-range chooks galore.
Their hobby now is ‘trotters’ (most were those you wouldn’t back)
They ...

Categories: barra, humor,
Form: Rhyme

A Lost Meaning:

...The tide slipped out,
The sun went down,
His thoughts surrounded,
That small old town.

The whispering wind,
The flames that cooked,
His catch for the day,
Downhearted he looked.

H...

Categories: barra, absence, best friend,
Form: Rhyme

Tarde Caliente -- Hot Afternoon

...--- Matamoros, Café Los Panchos
     mid-1990's

The old panaderia (café y pan de dulce)
on dusty Calle Guerrero between Once y Diez
is noisy and hot.
Sipping their best café con leche
while e...

Categories: barra, culture, feelings, introspection, irony,
Form: Free verse

A Vegetable Matter

...Grandpa’s a gem in the garden,
tending his sprouts and his peas,
tomatoes and onions and cabbage,
his ‘caulies’ and his broccoli’s.

I have seen plenty of gardens,
chocked full of bountiful gre...

Categories: barra, humor,
Form: Rhyme