Best Guatemala Poems
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 bread;
Of the meaning of tortillas...
He and I a......
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Categories:
guatemala, cousin, culture, friend, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
The Mayan Warrior Princess
...The 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 ancient soul trapped between t......
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Categories:
guatemala, birth, death, life, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
This Scene Before Me
...A free verse done in a quatern form (1st line moves to each stanza but is here, I have more syllables in each line in free form then is allowed inQuatern
This scene before me is one of......
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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 green breast
Then ra......
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Categories:
guatemala, morning,
Form:
Quintilla
The Pipeline
...absolutely 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 stand in the way
of its progress......
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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 underage children are
coming into the United states, from ......
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Categories:
guatemala, immigration,
Form:
Free verse
Hurricane Hattie
...HURRICANE HATTIE
It came like a thief
After midnight
Stealthily
Unawares
Mischievously
Spitefully
Desperately
Determined
Wi......
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Categories:
guatemala, earth, nature, rain,
Form:
Epic
I Am An Alien
...I’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 people starve of hunger.
Within frontiers ......
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Categories:
guatemala, allegory, history, loss, war,
Form:
Free verse
My Best Friend Doesn'T Speak English
...I 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 falling stars-
He just watches, always watches...
H......
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Categories:
guatemala, best friend, culture, friend,
Form:
Free verse
A Summer In Reflection
...The 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 so radiant,
so when t......
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Categories:
guatemala, childhoodold, children, morning, old,
Form:
Lyric
Where It Began
...The 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 think on the geniality of the average citizen,
ho......
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Categories:
guatemala, anger, angst, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Hot Tamale
...Hot 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 ......
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Categories:
guatemala, friendship, life, loveme,
Form:
Rhyme
Guatemala Tour
...Guatemala 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 you take
But the devil......
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Categories:
guatemala, travel,
Form:
Epic
Orchestrated Revolt: Part I
...supporting 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 Casti......
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Categories:
guatemala, life,
Form:
Free verse
Maps
...At 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 ......
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Categories:
guatemala, analogy, boyfriend, immigration, international,
Form:
Free verse