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Colombia Poems - Poems about Colombia

Wonders of Fascinating Enigma

...The vastness of space is a fascinating enigma;
It mesmerizes everyone who falls into it.
If you fall once, then you will begin to sink.
Nature has fabricated the universe into a paradise,
Even if...
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Categories: colombia, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat a Curtain Bisbee Has

...What a curtain Bisbee has
   That keeps Mexico subdued
And influences the lands
   From which the Sierra was hewn.

What purple folds keep Oaxaca
   As a fortress in the sky
Breaking only in P...
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Categories: colombia, friendship, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberTragedy At Sea

...Natalia Andrea Larranaga Fajardo 

Here lies one who died pitifully
She would have sought anonymity,
But publicity stole away her privacy
She threw herself off a ship at sea.
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Categories: colombia, death, sad,
Form: Epitaph

The Journey of a Soul

...Each morning the curtains were drawn because I didn’t have the energy to see the sun .. 
I dragged myself in slow motion from my slumber and painfully washed my face , this took hours and days to wa...
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Categories: colombia, depression, lonely, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCoffee

...
Without a little bit in their morning cup,
most people find it difficult to wake up.
Before leaving the house and heading for work,
they put a scoop in the pot and let it perk.
Making a...
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Categories: colombia, drink, morning,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFaith That Endangers and Saves

...Faith that endangers and saves


It was 1988, Bogota, Colombia, during the time of (La Violencia) the 40 year war of insurgents against the government. At the same time Pablo Escobar was wreaking ...
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Categories: colombia, christian, community, faith, god,
Form: Haibun

No Negra

...as if on death
row asking what
last meal before
the eternal
flight

what better
in Colombia
then Mexican
where i can
still use my

bad
Spanish...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

F Art

...i just
paid
more
for a
glass
of wine
then i did
to gain entry
into the modern

museum of art
Cartagena
Colombia
twenty
twenty...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Casa Della Pasta

...from a street
in Cartagena
stepping
suddenly

into a 

restaurant
so Italian
surely i was
in a time warp

for i

i was still
in Colombia but
fooled by the food
so authentico

and e...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

A Statement: Not a Poem

...Hello friends and future friends. I hope my 
choice of my poetic form is totally absurd. 
I don't even know what an Epithalamium is; 
so if you are looking for this form, I'm sorry 
to disappoint...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: Epithalamium

Just Desserts

...when this poem title
is used with "she 
received her..."

it is a
negative
but i'm not

writing about
comeuppance but
about her sweetness

so should she be
a pie or cake or
something

...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Ball Bearings

...i'm confused
not knowing
where to go
what to do

my compass
needle sticks
out reading 
south by 
south 
west
but 

google map
and my gps
suggest
another
place
as 
to

where
the ...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

The Lonely Little Pigeon

...I am sitting on the park bench waiting for a friend
I am sitting on the park bench wondering 
When it is going to end
Chirping birds flying from tree to tree
 Dancing to their predicted destiny 
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Categories: colombia, absence, appreciation, confidence, creation,
Form: Narrative

Meet the Carbonemys

...Carbonemys  (Greek for "coal turtle")
Pronounced: car-BON-eh-miss

I am a Carbonemys, a podocnemidid,
An extinct side-necked turtle.
I lived fifty-eight to
Sixty million years ago
During the m...
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Categories: colombia, animal,
Form: Free verse

Impromptu

...standing
thumb out
pointing south
sign saying
Colombia

hitch
hiking
sick
of hiking
all these

years
getting
no where
still
standing

here
here
comes
a car
now

stopping
the ...
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Categories: colombia, muse,
Form: I do not know?

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