Best Santa Maria Poems

Sparkling, empty blue sea
sails break the distant horizon
first one
then two
finally three ships making way 
toward unsuspecting shell-gatherers
brown-skinned and naked on
the hot Caribbean sand

Had they known...

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A Fountain for Carmela....
 
In the village of Santa Maria, high in the mountains lived a little girl named Carmela. It has 
always been the...

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I stand back and gaze across my wonderful garden, in bloom.
There it lies in the morning sun, with petals glistening from dew.

No one realizes the...

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Maria has Gone

She has gone
She has left
Maria is no more
She has no use for players
She has no use for Juan or his slayers

Adam is caught
In...

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The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is...

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SAILOR   MOON     


Sailor  moon  is rising proud
‘Neath  her sky  of  stars and cloud
A silvery...

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a sting 
upon the face of
reality
La Cantata de la
Santa Maria...

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There is a sickness in my heart
It began a long time ago
With three evil spirits that came out of the sea
From the land of the...

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LAS NAVES DE MEDERA (Wooden Ships)
They wanted ships. What they got
was wooden shells
not a farthing from the Crown
for these floating buckets.
Six thousand corks, hastily riveted...

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            Columbus Day Dream
 
Christopher Colombo was the very one.
    ...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Dark Moon
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: February2014


There's 
a dark moon 
rising
over
the Stars 
and 
Strips.....

An ugly 
wicked
dark moon -

It want
go
away -

When you think
that
 the most
heinous 
slaughter 
of
human life,

in
American
history

has
long been
forgotten,

it peeks
through
the
iniquity 
of
minacious 
clouds,

to
reveal
the
unthinkable
genocide,

that took
place
on
American
soil -

An 
ugly wicked
dark
moon,

bleeding behind 
the
shadows
of
senseless 
and
countless,

shed's 
of blood,

on
the
grounds
of
America -

It...

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I circled the world in a point of time
And I discovered the story 
Of Christopher Columbus’s lifetime
You know, he was born in Italy in 1451?

Young...

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My most troubling client
told me he died last night.

While this did not appear to be his somber case,
nor, sadly,
did my home office silently resound
like this...

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One of the four sons of a wool-weaver,
Christopher Columbus became a great navigator,
who went to sea to learn the sailor's skills
and later to discover a...

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This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie...

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