Isla Poems - Poems about Isla

In this dark, I’ll create my light: ‘Rambi’ Switch gone realities to fantasies lit green in sun and rains continual Awash, rainbows flittered o’er land and sea… Balm-like, soft thatch lightens my concrete tomb Endless walls in a salty breeze dissolve lifting heavy drapes to dance with palms tall Languidly lacy, they sway where birds thrall Ah! Warm sands I sip, drowning in...

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La Isla del Encanto (El Poema del Linda) There was no Elizabethan Changing of eyes On the Isle of Enchantment; No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment. Rather, came a delicate awakening Like soft dawn rising over groves Redolent of plantain and nectar. The Linden tree calls her Soft and tender So too a neo-Latin name for Beauty As she was Ever Native to islands Born...

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Amor, you allude like a cloud To something great Your name, a promise of Jerusalem Your exclusive mouth, like water on my dry lips and deeply vacant chest… I’ve never touched a cloud Nor known the inevitable fog Of falling into you But now that I know… You’re not even Tel Aviv to me Nor San Juan, nor Bayamon You’re a makeshift castle A colonizer Pressing...

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Isla Mae By Nathan Hannen My dear, Little thing, Who is young and sweet You blessed my life by chance, Your little pattering feet You fill my life with joy and love, My sweet, Your my love Precious baby, With skin so soft, You were given to me, By the Lord above Your sweet little hands and your small face, Filled...

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Levity from the pain of a love that was never meant to be within the portrait of our fillial destiny was what you granted to me while wanting nothing in return but affinity of hearts for the lesson of love to earn such moments when we descry our children laughing in warmth of sun;orchestrating celebration of marriage to flesh and...

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