Best Yucatan Poems
The Dinosaurs At Webb Dock...
Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river -
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint ......
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Categories:
yucatan, fire, world,
Form:
Free verse
Quetzalcoatl's Return...* For Carol Brown's Story Time Contest
Feathered serpent was more than an Aztec legend
Depicted in multihued native art
Sculptures, paintings adorned humid cities
Spiritual sketches messages im......
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Categories:
yucatan, history
Form:
Bio
The Flamingo Painted Pink...We were excited to walk on our favorite beach…and at the same time ascertain…
if and how our favorite beach had been affected by the hurricane.
Some parts were still flooded…and just as we had fe......
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Categories:
yucatan, bird,
Form:
Rhyme
Belizean Blend...BELIZEAN BLEND
In the beginning it was the Yucatec, the Mopan and Kekchi as well
Who came from the steppes of Asia where nomads dwell
They fished and farmed milpas, in paradise; away from hell......
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Categories:
yucatan, community, poetry, political, society,
Form:
Epic
Under the Cancun Sun...Under the Cancun sun,
on the Yucatan peninsula,
relaxing at the Blue Bay Club,
sipping Margaritas.
Glorius early morning beach,
I set out for a morning run,
soft white sand tingles beneath my f......
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Categories:
yucatan, girlfriend-boyfriend, nature, social, travelmorning,
Form:
Free verse
The Jungle Myth...A green river snakes its way across a jungle
Alive with sounds from the Earth's orchestra
Of watchful jaguars and dainty Yucatan squirrels
Enjoying a tête-à-tête between leafy branches
......
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Categories:
yucatan, culture, history, humanity, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Mother of All Political Poetry, Yucatec Maya and Dr Anil Sook Deo...Staking Claims: For Yucatec Maya & Native Peoples
The stones of the desert cry with me
They are brothers and sisters, but no bloody kin
New hearts see just cold rocks … no warmth or chari......
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Categories:
yucatan, abuse, education,
Form:
Rhyme
The Jungle Myth -- Two Form Style...A green river snakes its way across a jungle
Alive with sounds from the Earth's orchestra
Of watchful jaguars and dainty Yucatan squirrels
Enjoying a tête-à-tête between leafy branches
......
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Categories:
yucatan, beautiful, history, imagery, myth,
Form:
Verse
The Hurricane Was Harvey...The Hurricane was Harvey
By Franklin Price
8/31/2017
The hurricane was Harvey, what an unassuming name
Left the western Yucatan. across the Gulf he came
Building up his power to a category fou......
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Categories:
yucatan, care, community, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Couplet
Garden Hummer Conundrum...Poor Ruby Hummer looks confused,
searching for her favorite feeder.
It was right there when it last was used,
in September, in the cedar.
Above the Bee-balm and Lobelia,
in my pollinator garde......
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Categories:
yucatan, bird, flower, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Bridge the Generation the Young and Elderly...I am a young man from Yucatan
Trying to understand
You're an elder man from Philly
I bridge a road, a road I've build the emotional trip ever so chilly
You were born shoes you walk in where made ......
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Categories:
yucatan, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Yucatan, Et Cetera...Yucatan, etc.
Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.
Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
......
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Categories:
yucatan, fate, holiday, irony, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
Burnt Verse: Patchwork...A glowering patchwork of a man
Chin like the Yucatan
Edges his oak-soaked way toward me
Imitating nightmares
Bitter cedar emanating from him
In cringing solvent sna......
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Categories:
yucatan, absence, memory, mentor, remember,
Form:
Verse
The Forgotten...Lives have been lived by millions of people that have been forgotten or worse never known. People that walked our world, looked at the same sun, the same moon that we see today. Lived lives, had fami......
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Categories:
yucatan, art,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Forgotten...Lives have been lived by millions of people that have been forgotten or worse never known. People that walked our world, looked at the same sun, the same moon that we see today. Lived lives, had fami......
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Categories:
yucatan, appreciation,
Form:
Prose