Best Campo Poems

El Campo

Campo:	terreno extenso fuera de poblado. Tierra laborable campiña. Sembrados, árboles 
y demás cultivas. Terrenos contiguos a una población.

Caminando por el campo
Me encontré una piedrita
Tropezando me di cuenta
Que era hermosa y bien bonita

La agarre y me senté
Las lágrimas llegaron
Me dijo la piedrita
“tan lindo tu llorar,...

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You, Czeslaw,
like a brook of the earth,
welling up to the skies and more,
swelling up even to the sun and the stars
and all unknown, uncounted galaxies
and more, more than we can yet know
or ever will, till in timeless space
we dwell in a place where
our tears mingle...

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Campo Alegre re-printed

Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A dry barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under the houses
Grew big and ugly
When one is slaughtered 
The meat tastes of drunk
Seamen’s vomit
And cheap perfume
That hides
The grotesque sex
In the...

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Campo

Aos sábados, 
como todos
os dias, 
estamos 
no campo,
respondemos 
a perguntas,
estamos aqui; 
nunca nos 
incomodamos;
sempre 
faremos com 
que seu sábado 
e os outros dias,
sempre seja
um bom dia
de fazer 
com pouco
mais e mais....

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Campo Alegre re-printed

Under the houses on stilt
That has no sewers
And built for whores
To service sailors in Curacao
A barren island
In the Caribbean Sea
Pigs live under houses
Grew big and ugly
When one is slaughtered 
The meat tastes of a drunk
Seamen’s vomit
And cheap perfume
That hides
The grotesque sex
In the name...

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