A Picnic With Pablo Neruda
...Four legs quiver
like clumsy cabrioles
striking smooth gray rivers
of zig-zag sidewalk barrios
in rhythm with happy shivers
syncopated on a muffled drum
as we talk and stroll
On our way
han...
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Categories:
barrios, i love you, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Four
...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA 2007 AD / 1427 AH
The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at a port where the routes of the ferries,
the whitecaps ...
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Categories:
barrios, christian, history, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Sunday In Spain
...We stroll the barrios of sweet Madrid
A world of ill concern thus wafting by
Reflections of the day alight your eye
Still here we are alone amidst a crowd
The only ...
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Categories:
barrios, adventure, passion, romance, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Scenarios of Barrios
...Scenarios of Barrios
What we all saw were many scenarios,
Of urban poor areas known as barrios;
A pitiful sight,
Day and night;
Each one on Sundays to church goes.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
barrios, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Where the Guns Go Off
...There is no envy
of where we live:
rundown apartment complexes,
dangerous housing projects.
Poorly zoned business districts
whose warehouses cut through our landscape
like the tombstone...
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Categories:
barrios, life, spoken word,
Form: Blank verse
La Sociedad Revolectronica
...La Sociedad Revolectronica,
electricidad, gravedad
la unión de las mentes
que brillan independientes
dedos de fuego, deseo electro
Akmuk y CMongrooves Carlos
nadie puede dominarlos!
y cuando tocan en...
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Categories:
barrios, inspirational, music,
Form: Rhyme
Tears of a Black Youth
...I'm crying out with these emotions that i'm can't explain
I'm crying out with two emotions in my heart,my sadness,and my pain
My tears flow out like a river fall into an endless ocean
My mind fe...
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Categories:
barrios, angst, hope, life, sad,
Form: Personification
Ghetto Rap
...This is a life I've gotten used to
Last night someone stole my shoes
My life has been miserable all the way around
It's a stereo with no speakers, which means no sound
Everyone here inherits the ...
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Categories:
barrios, introspection, life, social, song-life,
Form: ABC