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Juarez Poems - Poems about Juarez


Premium Member Swift Justice
...suspect hiding out incognito in ol’ Tijuana town nabbed lucky border guard recognized him in Juarez, Mexico Sunday captured at gunpoint handcuffed and jailed extradited Monda......

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Categories: juarez, humor,
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member Playing Cards
...Speaking Spanish wasn't easy for a gringo like me, but I had no choice. I was playin' cards and drinkin' Mezcal at a nowhere bar in El Paso. I didn't have any money in my pockets but I was bluffing t......

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Categories: juarez, western,
Form: Free verse



Rainforest
...I’ve lived an age in Oaxaca climes encased in peppered mist desolate with seasoned sun a place of darkness holding muted beams as a seedling's life struggles to finger slots of light but air ......

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Categories: juarez, nature,
Form: Free verse
Picture This Half of the Sky
...Picture This Half Of The Sky A terrified woman in India Burned beyond recognition Her husband enraged ... She could not beg. An outcast girl in Iran Beaten, shamed, then stoned the adultre......

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Categories: juarez, appreciation, courage,
Form: Political Verse
Not Enough Gags
...(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite. He had choked on the plastic cap of his eyedrops bottle, which he habituall......

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Categories: juarez,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member When I Get To Juarez
..."¿Quién es? ¿Quién es?" were the words on my lips As I woke with a jolt in the night Could tell by the way that the stillness just hung Something about this 'aint right Been hidin' out......

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Categories: juarez, history, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War
...You can feel it spinning fast the Chinese, Japanese, American and European junk orbiting at several thousand miles per hour could ......

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Categories: juarez, culture, environment, farm, future,
Form: Verse
Mind of a Graffiti Artist
...now in his mind there are many gears rusty but funtional. they meter out the letters and create words that may even form a Structure from time to time. iron oxide filled metallic brown bu......

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Categories: juarez, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member If I Could Reach Across the Miles
...If I could reach across the miles I’d be reborn with just your smile Looking straight into my path Finding you alone at last. In our secret place of rendezvous Where time and space are old and new ......

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Categories: juarez, friendship, old, old,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Farewell, My Carlotta
...My Dearest Carlotta, my beloved inamorata, you must be back in Austria, far away from this dilemma. I was an Austrian prince. I let Napoleon convince myself of greatness. As an emperor and ......

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Categories: juarez, historyme,
Form: Rhyme

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