Best Latinos Poems

"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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I been through hell.


Man I even been chain and sell.


But I stand tall because like a black person I will not fail.


I have the heart...

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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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small gasps of air
    escape hearts of a feather

someone lifted the ground higher
someone lowered the sky closer
because somehow the clouds seem so...

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Stifled cries
No concern for the black man until the black man dies
Images of black and blue flash before my eyes
How many times?
Unprotected our men go...

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We need to come together As one big nation,Put the hate on the shelf to stop the devastation,Do new public relations write a new proclamation,...

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Good morning world, wake up
Today’s Egypt, tomorrow’s ancient Eldorado, El Paso, Colorado, Suzhou, Picasso, Pissarro, Pizarro, Pirandello, Paganini, Mandela, Nakym, Muhammad, Mugabe, Jabbar, Quadir, Kalani,...

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Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound
I never got my head around
his magnum opus: The Cantos
I’ve tried so hard but goodness knows
he didn’t intend it to be easy
for...

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I was born in Sunny Southern California, in the hottest month of the year! cries out my mother.  California is known for its drought...

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I got it from watching my 60-year-old abuelo come home every night chingotiado from picking cilantro till his hands turned green and purple So that...

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It’s in Los Angeles, California
where I spent some days 
to be with a few friends and confreres;
they welcomed and invited me for dinner
a great experience,...

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I been through hell.


Man I even been chain and sell.


But I stand tall because like a black person I will not fail.


I have the heart...

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Walking into the La Fiesta, a group of young latinos were exiting
A short young man(little man syndrome) says "grande torro"
so I can hear and understand,...

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Look.
I'm not saying your wrong
What I am sayin to your face is 
YOU ARE NOT RIGHT
you're an educated racist
our children cannot inherit that
and you're angry...

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Okay here we go again two in morning
 on the end of nothing known
 trying everyone for what they had
 I know its bad 
but...

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