Long Arroyo Poems

Until we came to live in Madrid
We lived with my parents in Vallelado from Segovia
Where my parents had a henhouse
On the outskirts of town
On the left bank of the Arroyo del Horcajo
Sheltered by Cerro de...

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Five in the morning
Orange and red glow in the east
A new day is born

A single rain drop
Looks to be the final straw
Now the flood begins

Albuquerque view
Volcanoes on the mesa
Since the age of time

Once green and...

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Alone on the trail, pushing daylight,
we two pull into a small arroyo to bed down.
Nigh unto exhaustion, hot food
transcends tired old bones and the smell of sweat,
but not enough for either one of us to...

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The Lure Of The Beast is the Wolf Man's Werewolf Dream.
It was written by Samia Arroyo and it inspired the following theme;
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He stalks and pounces upon his prey. He savagely needs now to be...

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There is a place inside the woods where I wound up one night.
Way up in the mountains where I went to get a bite.
Circumstances led me there the day my car broke down.
I thought I’d...

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Black Ops

Tex Lester and his sidekick Lumpy Bascom 
wiggled down the arroyo on their bellies
to better observe a latifundista trouble spot
too hot to touch so they tap danced instead
Lumpy grabbed the walkie talkie and said...

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the prophet arose from his prayers
and scanned the horizon
"they will be here soon"

two hours or so to moonrise 
with little protection in sight
and with no direction in mind 
he raised a bit of dust and...

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11/13/20
"Halo"

Always try to give me the run around
Like I'm such a clown
That should be stuck and drown
Then stay under the ground
I've just about
Had it up to here
My oh my
A lot of the time, I'm not...

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In the land where children play.
A boy named Roy would sleep all day.
No matter what his friends all said.
The boy would not get out of bed.

For he was very bored with toys.
The ones for little...

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Here I stand in this godforsaken corner
under a forgotten, sun scorched land
beneath an expansive, desert sky.

I squint in the melting sun at high noon
my proud, deeply tanned face is lined
like a road map, carved and...

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Traveler Without Rucksack
By Sy Roth

Aloneness, the traveler without rucksack
Beats the miles into your feet
A bare necessity for the nomad
For there are morns and sinking suns to see
In the endless desert of our lives.

The arroyo quickly...

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The sky is cracked tonight.  The moon slips through and the clouds dance across her slender back.  I’m hunkered down here for the night in an arroyo filled with pain and I wait...

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Bob and Hannah went to fish in Wassamassaw Bay.
They told their mom they would return for church so they could pray.
But both of them lost track of time, returning way past noon.
The sun was down...

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hasty journey south
tombstone circle k
wade through
wanna be cowboys
and rv queens
to check out counter
and zip
outta the parking lot
onto the open road 
only to be
cut off
by a paint truck
laying lines
really?
crawling 
down the highway 
slower than a snail
no...

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He writes op-eds for Fox and admires Don Bongino, Ed Henry, Brian Kilmeade,
Trey Gowdy, Bill Hemmer, Will Cain, Jason Chaffetz, Stuart Barney, Jesse Watters, Raymond Arroyo, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Pete 
Hegseth, Greg...

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The sun is slowly fading and it’s almost twilight time.
The ocean’s strong vibration beckons me to rise from deep.
The ship announces its approach, its horn an ocean chime. 
Waking me from slumber in the ocean...

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A tranquil silence hovers 
over the arroyo canyons
after the winter rain. 
Dewdrops sparkle 
like liquid fireflies
delicately shimmering 
in the morning light. 

I walk through drenched paths
enveloped by cool, musty smells 
and revel in the stark...

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A canyon junction west of Soledad
and south of Mint (named for purple sage) –
this scoured maze of Canyon Country 
where I rode bareback 
down arroyos, leaving hoofprints in sand. 

Today, I’ll stop at the general...

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Nikki Haley, Sean Spicer,
Trey Goudy, Richard Grenell,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, 
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, 
Rick Santorum, Tucker Carlson,
Rupert Murdoch, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Ed Rollins, Eric Trump,
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr, 
Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham,
Dan Bongino, Raymond Arroyo,
Steve...

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Only angry about the stupidity of my 
Forefather's miscalculations and 
Now living within an archaic formulae

This makes me undulate as a situation 
Spins new dna
Onto phantasmagorical
Fingertips whilst attempting connection

Maybe in the hopes of singing with...

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A perfect storm they had created.
Two lovers destined to be mated.
Living life upon the edge.
Forged in crime, their love was pledged.

Wanted posters with each name. 
Loved and feared, the pair became.
Evading law from state to...

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The ocean breeze was beckoning.
The salt was on my tongue.
I shed my clothes and jumped inside.
Just like when I was young.

I swam out in the darkened sea.
The moon provided light.
It shone upon the rippled waves.
And...

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Der Wald atmet auf
Sonnenlicht fällt auf Tannengrün
Im aufsteigenden Nebel

Am Bachrand vor hohem Gras
Sonnt sich im Baum eine Wildkatze 

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The forest breathes again
Sunlight falls on pines' green 
In now rising mist 

At the brook's edge near...

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