Long Andean Poems
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Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War
You can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
andean, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torrential silver
lures pollen to fly from its golden chalice
while above this...
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Categories:
andean, america, earth, kiss, life, love, spanish, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Chilean Episode
Two thousand feet in the belly of the earth
So near the opulence of golden ore
And so far the poor man's dream of worth
From the falling sweat of toil
Around the Chilean house
The wringing hands toll in...
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Categories:
andean, allegory, natural disastersheart, heart, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Beauty Is More Than Meets the Eye
There are beautiful creatures to grace plains.
There are beautiful flowers for bouquets.
There are beautiful people …
natural and otherwise.
Whether people, creatures or flowers,
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Categories:
andean, animal, beauty, flower, inspirational, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
I Wish I Weren'T An Ant
I WISH I WEREN’T AN ANT
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I wish I weren’t an ant, my survival rate is scant
Done in by a pesticide, or a shoe, as I gallivant
A solitary figure, when I roam, I am...
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Categories:
andean, allusion, analogy, children, dream, kids, humor, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Ballade Pour Adeline: the White Rose
On the side of the road to the Small Mission
Of Nuestra Senora del Los Milagros
A white rose stands under the shadow to peace all divisions
Protected by a majestic Eucalyptus with branches we cannot dose
Adeline was...
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Categories:
andean, abuse, beauty, forgiveness, love, violence, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Slimbridge Wetland Centre
Conceived in nineteen forty six
By naturalist, Sir Peter Scott,
This wetland paradise now thrives
And teems with ducks and geese and swans.
The wild geese drew Scott to the marsh,
The flood plain of the river Severn,
Where countless wintering...
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Categories:
andean, bird, environment, water,
Form:
Blank verse
Sacred Lake Titicaca
Sacred Lake Titicaca
High atop the Andes, between Bolivia and Peru,
sits the birthplace of the Incas, sacred Lake Titicaca.
A powerhouse of nature through and through,
it was created by the Inca god of the lake, Viracocha.
A treetop...
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Categories:
andean, beauty, mountains, nature, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Power of Journeys
Power of Journeys
New horizons speak in hope and pull me to Pablo Neruda’s country
‘Twenty poems of...
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Categories:
andean, love, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
A Lone Diner at the Snout to Tail Bistro
She sent back the last order, as well.
This time, she shook her head
like a dog in the rain,
like a posh-frock woman
having "a spell."
The brimming broth, she said,
had a bitterness that swelled
and stung...
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Categories:
andean, angst, city, food, loneliness, pain, sensual, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
El Condor
El Condor...........
Flying
This snowscape
High flight
High escape
Mountain light
This solitary flying
Wind sighing
Mountain light
Andean flight
El Condor
Soaring high
Andean home
Flying alone
Hear the moan
Of Incan wind
Hear...
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Categories:
andean, nature, uplifting, light, light,
Form:
I do not know?
1533
under a nervous rain
in the dark afternoon of the forest
the slave extracts latex from the rubber tree
and the whip leaves stripes in the man on his knees
under the scorching sun
in the morning before shrouded by...
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Categories:
andean, pain, rainforest, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnet For Los Campitos
SONNET FOR LOS CAMPITOS TEAM
Orinoco flow to Andean peaks, the nation
Protests the chaos suffering and pain
Yet once more you young pilgrims made migration
To this distant shore from 'cross the Spanish Main
Not for refuge nor self-centred...
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Categories:
andean, courage, creation,
Form:
Sonnet
Dusk On Cortaderia Jubata
Andean Pampas Grass grows in California.
Its Linnaean binomial is Cortaderia jubata.
This noxious weed disperses far and wide.
With tall stalks and inflorescences, it has nothing to hide.
As an ornamental plant native to South America,
it was introduced...
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Categories:
andean, places
Form:
Rhyme
Thanks, Judy
Bluebirds can't fly over the rainbow,
And I'll tell you something more;
The only avian species that can
Is the Andean Condor.
A chased rainbow is never caught.
Somehow, a rainbow's never "here".
The closer you get to the pot o'gold,
The...
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Categories:
andean, angst, beauty, crazy, dream, humor, nonsense, rainbow,
Form:
Rhyme
Andean Peaks/ Andengipfel/ Picos De Los Andes
Mountains glow like amber
As being lit by an eternal fire
The sun sets slowly
Andean peaks embedded in clouds
Shadows spread on ancient sands
Berge glühen wie Bernstein
Wie durch ein ewiges Feuer entfacht
Die Sonne geht langsam unter
Anden Gipfel...
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Categories:
andean, nature
Form:
Tanka
Andean Mountain Cats
Andean Mountain Cats are listed as, endangered
and are found in, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina
They inhabit arid to semi-arid areas, in the Andes Mountains
and their thick fur and long tail, helps them prevail on their...
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Categories:
andean, animal, beautiful, earth, education, environment, money, nature,
Form:
Rhyme