Best Guatemala Poems
Below are the all-time best Guatemala poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of guatemala poems written by PoetrySoup members
Guatemala TourGuatemala Tour
The Mayan’s were the focus
Of our Guatemala stop
We saw some ancient ruins
Had a lunch and stopped to shop
That there describes the outline
Of any tours...
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Categories:
guatemala, travel,
Form:
Epic
The Meaning of Bread and Tortillas"Mi primo" means my cousin in Spanish.
He calls me his "primita"- little cousin.
This is the story of how mi primo
Taught me about the meaning of...
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Categories:
guatemala, cousin, culture, friend, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
The Mayan Warrior PrincessThe Mayan Warrior Princess
In eerie recurring dreams, like things seen dimly before dawn,
blurred memories of a temple pyramid resurface from an era long gone.
My...
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Categories:
guatemala, birth, death, life, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
This Scene Before MeA free verse done in a quatern form (1st line moves to each stanza but is here, I have more syllables in each...
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Categories:
guatemala, change, community, culture, international,
Form:
Free verse
Dawns Arrival
As the morning carries different bird song
My body stirs from its cozy slumber, begone
Aloft to the mountains volcanized hard crest
Dark clouds beat upon its jagged...
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Categories:
guatemala, morning,
Form:
Quintilla
The Pipelineabsolutely nothing stops the pipeline.
it penetrates all ways of life
all borders, all villages & towns---
the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare...
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Categories:
guatemala, life,
Form:
Free verse
Underage Immigrant Crisis
Underage Immigrant Crisis Part 1
We are having a big problem here in Texas, by the border.
It is turning into a dilemma. A lot of...
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Categories:
guatemala, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
guatemala, earth, nature, rain,
Form:
Epic
My Best Friend Doesn'T Speak EnglishI have a best friend.
He doesn't speak English, but
He lets me ask him anything-
He's got big brown eyes that watch
As the world goes by like...
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Categories:
guatemala, best friend, culture, friend,
Form:
Free verse
I Am An AlienI’m an alien
From a poor country
A refugee in a rich country
From a far away third world country
Where corruption as cancer is spread every where
And...
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Categories:
guatemala, allegory, history, loss, war,
Form:
Free verse
A Summer In ReflectionThe morning sun hovers coyly
behind broad shoulders of the John Crow Mountain
before unwrapping petals of fever plant and Venice.
Mama’s countenance was far contrast to one...
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Categories:
guatemala, childhoodold, children, morning, old,
Form:
Lyric
Where It BeganThe Atomic Café stays with me, over
even the most perfect of days.
I think about the arrogance of power
and how most people live in a daze.
I...
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Categories:
guatemala, anger, angst, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Hot TamaleHot Tamale
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Man from
Guatemala,
Educator-
Hot tamale.
Lessons learned
Adoration churned.
Another’s love
A young heart burned.
From darkest fear,
You drew love near.
Esteem encroached.
By promises...
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Categories:
guatemala, friendship, life, loveme,
Form:
Rhyme
Orchestrated Revolt: Part Isupporting the anti-communists in
the Soviet Union from
1944 to 1989---
supporting al-Za’im in Syria in
1949---
installing Shah Mohammed Reza
Pahlevi in 1953 Iran---
supporting Colonel Carlos Castillo
Armas...
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Categories:
guatemala, life,
Form:
Free verse
MapsAt times, Spanish becomes
An incomprehensible
Tangle of strange words
Like strange woods
And unfamiliar sounds
That roll like hills
And confuse my senses-
English is my natural
Habitat, but to my...
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Categories:
guatemala, analogy, boyfriend, immigration, international,
Form:
Free verse