Conquistadores Poems - Poems about Conquistadores

... Mexico claims part of Texas as its own Calls to invade the Lone Star State have lately grown Long-time Texans can hardly believe their ears This issue has been decided for ma......

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...I watch you go quiet in mid-chatter. You look up and inward, your eyes deep-set and native, I glimpse you, not as that Irish girl brought up in the projects but as an American legend, a promise ......

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...When I grow up I want to be a conquistador Seven is adamant always Once they fall in love with a career, that is it. What is that? I asked. You know, she said coyly. You had them back in the d......

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...I left my class tonight full, exhausted. Every joint aches and barely able to walk. The trip to the car was barely mustered, and I reflected a time on the talk. I had completed a three-hour class......

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... Villanelle : Who but Great Powers make World look like market place Who but Great Powers make World look like market place The crib courtyards of Russia China and US Who reigns in the Uni......

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...Aztec Empire grandeur and splendor, a great civilization - conquistadores......

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...All day long I read but cannot tell Which would I bring back Or what moor's good could they do now Who did not prevent the coming of hell. Back and forth, back and forth And always back again We go t......

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...We are new colonists and we embrace A hostile and unforgiving land. Lay Claim to clay covered gold by grace And the callous palms of tired hands, But the weary lesson lidded, did not Stay night'......

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...Jacksonville, at this hour, tell me Do you miss me where the river flows Through Florida's tangled history Where the Mocama cotton grows Do you see me driving early To teach where the clansman name ......

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...Words have shallow meanings Skimmed from the alien pool Where aliens keep spitt of tongue These borrowed syllables are not of my tongue The taste was chewed from them long ago So yearning to recover ......

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...Mirror melted, and I enclosed in solid space of ice Intersperse images, direlict of other's maiming vice. Mimicry is not a benign deceit as you would think Incontestable illusions brought my race to ......

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...How do I begin The litany of my praise Where so much is wrong And we in the haze Of material focus See not the spirit dripping Into soggy souls. We see the goals Extolled by what brings to ruin Other......

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...I came to find again the fresh fountain With footprints of Conquistadores framed In mud: residue of a brick mountain From behind which white anger once had flamed. The missing fort was not all ti......

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...Now let us forget foreign captains And Conquistadores myth That colors the morning exuberantly With exotics wars and phony fathers Like a fine lady strolling along a rotten street I have tasted ......

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...My father's abeng blew up my mother's womb And I was chained there Nine months in darkness drinking blood Longing for my resurrection from the tomb Longing to break the chains Holding me before ......

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