Best Chicano Poems

Whose turn is it to take the stage,
In a circus of a lost & somewhat forgotten 
race.  Where our value in life has 
diminished,...

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I'm a chicano but my skin is light people speak on the unknown and say I'm white.

it doesn't matter to me cause for my blood...

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I tell my mom everything I want her to know,
She knew about my pain and what I had left to show,
She knows I hate when...

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"TALKING TO GOD BY A BOX FAN"


hi God:

it's 3:33 in the morning and
I don't know what to do. 
everything is upside down.
there are red eyes...

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Azteca

As a young girl growing up in Los Angeles City
My mother took me everywhere with her
Our favorite Mexican restaurant had great hospitality
Casa De Nina, I...

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Growing up poor and Chicano in the barrio
parents working in the fields is all we know.
They tell us to go to school and learn all...

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Only little black girl at  school and her white friends admired her ‘tan’ 
–“I'm brown all over” she told them, proudly motioning to all...

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Ah, the bloom was on the Rose
yet, the taint of alcohol and drugs
looms nightmare like behind her baby pink cheeks. 
Porcelain skin tones, raspberry rogue
nails...

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"THE BOSS AT WORK"


I’ve been trying to work with 
her for some time now but the 
damn general manager won’t 
allow it. who knows why...

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"DENTIST"

I called to make an appointment,
it was for a deep cleaning. 
"Friday at 8AM please," I said. 
"Alright, Friday at 8 it is." 
Friday came...

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"I'VE NEVER MET THE TOOTH FAIRY"


it was the city of La Puente and I was in kindergarten. 
I was nothing significant. 
I was just another...

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"FRANKENSTEIN ON THE TABLE"


yesterday, I saw my mother
and stepfather after seven
years of nothing but silence.
we sat at a table and talked,
mostly about what my life
has...

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"SHE LOVES ME. I KNOW."



there’s an old Asian legend 
that says: your present face 
is that of the one you love 
the most. 

it’s probably...

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"IT'S FUNNY, ISN'T IT?"



we all hope for change at 
some point in our lives and 
when we get it, it usually 
comes when we don’t...

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“A CHILD’S HONESTY”

today I sat and typed 
out a few poems. 
today they came as 
naturally as a lie 
comes from a female’s 
mouth. 
today...

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