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Guatemala Poems - Poems about Guatemala

Changing world

...Changing world?

In Peru, they import potatoes
In Guatemala, they plant thousands of trees
drink cacao, sit in groups, and sing
think they are new agers 
the new war in The Middle East began 
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Categories: guatemala, adventure, break up, color,
Form: ABC

a seaman's life

...A seaman's life

Looking at the map, I have been to most countries 
that have seaports but no time to explore work  had
to be done whether it was Monday or Sunday
I have crossed many seas. The P...
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Categories: guatemala, angst, appreciation, art,
Form: ABC



180 barrils

...180 barrels
A trendy couple fled a tourist resort and left behind 180 barrels of human waste; one wonders how they could accumulate that much ; the pair fled to Guatemala, farms cocoa plants and liv...
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Categories: guatemala, america, angel, anger, angst,
Form: ABC

How I Quit Jersey for Juliapa

...It’s tattooed lightly on my upper arm
“I love my mom, and she loves me”, it reads.
A squad from Space Force dragged me in the weeds:
“We’ve nailed you, boy. You’ll do no further harm.”

I woke i...
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Categories: guatemala, satire,
Form: Rhyme

a shaman of guatemala

...I fear the shamans, great or small,
I saw one, with long black hair,
In a cemetery of the green Guatemala,
He danced among the colored tombs,

it was inhabited by the spirits of the dead,
Bette...
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Categories: guatemala, fear, image,
Form: Free verse



a lost friend

...a lost friend

I refuse to cry over lost friends
I`m drunk too
It feels good to up the anchor of sobriety
Let alcohol give winds to my sails.
I`m a clipper buying tea in China
not useless toys...
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Categories: guatemala, angel, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse

interrupted dream

...An interrupted dream

This morning, I'm happy 
with a hint of nostalgia
over love won and lost
I'm drunk  too
It takes days to get sober
Today, I shall not walk 
on the side of the righteous ...
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Categories: guatemala, abuse, america, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberQuetzal

...Quest is the Creator’s nod
Qualified distinct bird*
Quickly representing
Quite well Guatemala**
Quaintly resplendent midst
Quirks that quell forest noise
Quieting nature trip
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Categories: guatemala, appreciation, bird, blessing, christian,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberThe Most Popular Beverage In Spiceland

...Can you name the President of Guatemala
    How 'bout the islands off the coast of Sahara
  Would you happen to know the currency of Iceland
    And what about the most popular beverage in Spicela...
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Categories: guatemala, fate, humor, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Role Playing With Strangers

...We paddle through small talk,
I like her, she has style.
I imagine we have a history together
back in an old movie that I have yet to see.

I begin to construct a lost and anecdotal life.
In an...
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Categories: guatemala, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Broken Dreams

...Broken Dreams


Tonight I´m happy and sorrowful
I refuse to cry over lost friends
I´m drunk as well.
It feels good to up the anchor of sobriety
let alcohol give wind to my sails.
A clipper bu...
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Categories: guatemala, cute, hope,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberGracias Gringos

...Folks must be happy in Guatemala

   With tax money frittered by Kamala

      Will she visit the border
 
         To 'stablish peace and order

             Or is she just Joe's otiose* wal...
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Categories: guatemala, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberAfter the Doctor

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Clement Moloch is a despicable doctor.
This physician specializes in death and torture.
For any government, he is there to be hired.
A professional assassin who has retired
is called up...
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Categories: guatemala, murder, violence,
Form: Rhyme

Hungary - Not Lunch Time, Or Hungry, Just Praying For H Nations

...OCTAVE:
LORD, as morn yields to noon (or dawn) my SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus
W...
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Categories: guatemala, abuse, analogy, angst, political,
Form: Sonnet

Why We Will Overcome Covid19

...I
Siblings, we will overcome, COVID-19
And most anything by growing as human
(Jennifer Proxenos's POTD inspired my writing)
Again about this pandemic in perspective

II
Remember the American I...
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Categories: guatemala, appreciation, bible, death, england,
Form: Didactic

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