Best Barrio Poems
La Mujer Del Barrio VegaSome Paris Hilton wannabe laughed
At my cell phone
(which was missing the battery cover)
As if to say
"How pathetic!"
As if to suggest
"He'll never get laid!"
The day was too gloriously
Autumn
For me to care
About the trivialities of some
Electronic set of shackles
And the status of their condition
But(t)
I was tempted to...
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Categories:
barrio, animals, music,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Night at the Barrio FiestaDo you remember
when we left the baraylehan
early
at midnight
.
It was my alibi,
I really meant to
walk with you
I smiled when you held
my hand.
The nipa leaves
let go of the moon
as the music at the dance
went silent,
I kissed you.
The road was cold
the grass beside it moist
my heart was...
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Categories:
barrio, kiss, love,
Form:
Free verse
In the Place Where Nothing GrowsHe has no poetic garden to gaze upon
no outside to the inside of this room
Soft breaths of brothers 1, 2 and 3
like the breeze on the asphalt playground
of his tiny school, one mile away.
No light shines in his window
No birds sing hymns from leafing trees
No...
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Categories:
barrio, character, family, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The Exuberant Laugh-ErsNo one laughs as loudly or as exuberantly as a child
from the ghetto or the barrio.
I know, for I have worked with children
from a ghetto for six years, and from a barrio for five.
They have learned to laugh with absolute pure flat out...
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Categories:
barrio, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Narrative