Best Madre Poems

Don Coto's..

 face smiles no more
 Only in memory
 Paving the way for others
 with dreams and aspirations
 Arriving at these shores 
 To prosper...

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Touching to sea essence with their noses
Old men  by the seashore
Sails up flags waving goodbye
Gulls laughing
Don Coto's Face brown and wrinkled
Smiles from ear to...

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Amor de Madre, mothers love is
More and greater than any other love in the world 
Over everything she will putt you
Regardless of what you have...

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Oda a Nuestra Madre

Madres son la razón
Madres son el amor,
Que guardamos en el corazón.

Madres ignoran los
Malos comportamientos
Y siempre nos indican
Los caminos más abiertos

Te tenemos en...

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Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...

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Indigenous woman—rarely accompanied by their
white sisters—or their men enter 
through the side door
of St. Peter’s Church.

Here they are boxed in cool stucco,
and stained-glass. A flock...

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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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The Scots, by God,
They drove them out,
With a single Yorkie
At their heels a' yappin'
The Hobyahs tried to fly
Their arms they were a flappin'

Some managed to...

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El conjunto plena... 
trio tumbao
aguas buenas 
sueños arbolitos 
sueños de pino 
siempre unidos 
la fuerza de mi padre 
el sabor gitano 
de mi madre 
gritos...

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BILINGUAL  CONFRONTATION


She entrée-ed into the room and it was all so déjà vue
Because her Quebecois wiggle was timed to match the tango
But she’d met...

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Se que El amor ni el perdón 
Se compra con un simple regalo
Pero se puede expresar con el 
Corazón en la mano. 

Quizás estas palabras...

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Para mi Estudiante 
Si por mí fuera
En mis brazos lo trajera
Para que siempre
Amado se sintiera

 No es egoísmo
Respetar a un ser querido
No es hipocresía
Decirle que...

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Un niño deseaba una mascota.
Para complacerlo, su madre lo llevó a un centro especializado en cuidado de gatos. 
El pequeño vio a muchos felinos de...

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“... The closeness of the place and the heat of the climate, 
        added to the number in...

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(One of my rare attempts at macaronic writing--the reasons for it may be found in the context of the poem.  Only a smattering of...

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