Best Latino Poems

Baile con migo, hips made from the rhythm of merengés and cumbias, samba, swagger and a pinch of azucar mixed into my backbone. 
My first...

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One. Latino boys like Buffalo Wild Wings. It isn't clear why, but it's definitely emerging as a pattern.

Two. Latino boys are persistent. When he asks...

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 Where do we belong      Where did We go wrong

Weren't our emotions deep enough to make us stay

I look back...

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We all have voices
They are strong and loud
We can use them to start 
Landslides and earthquakes
We can also calm the storm
Take that roar and turn...

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People's, people-of a *modest degree*.  Forgive me if something about this poem
is offensive to anyone, my apology to the psyche of your mind that's...

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**You name them your blood
**You fight side by side
**Against the “Enemy”:
**The different in sight

Your soldiers against soldiers
And Yet
You’re all alike
Both brothers from Adam and Eve

Alive...

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Como’ Si’ Yama’, Senor’
Como’ Si Yama’, Por Favor’…
… for Below That Embroidered Sombrero’
Shone Eyes Like El Dorado

He Was A Tall and Handsome Hombre’
Like The Range...

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Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...

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As another refugee dies
camped along America's southern border 
a poor family seeks law and order
In Mexico
(In Mexico)
And the family cries.
They didn't expect to find hatred...

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 Parody on Andrew Marvell’s “To My Coy Mistress”

Had we but World enough and Time 
Your mating call, sir, were no crime.  
If lifetimes...

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Slice that ripe green Avocado
Love it with my rice and beans
Oh it looks so ripe and yellow
Slice it like a tangerine

Let's make love under La...

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What is it
   that makes us put labels on ourselves?

Many of my friends are  Hispanic or Latino Americans 
 each might say...

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My Heart beats faster when I touch my Gun
Loch David Crane, 
Border Patrol Auxiliary
26 January  2010

We track illegal aliens in the snow.
It's easy to...

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Today I woke up and smiled with Africa
     I rapped with Nazizi 
     I admired with Ali...

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Ah be careful, so careful my friends
be careful before you go getting involved
Isn’t it strange how we sometimes get swept up
swept and sucked into a...

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