Long Buenos Poems

Haven’t you had enough blood from the beginning of time?
Haven’t you taken enough lives before they should have died?
All around I can hear their cry 
They want to escape from the under world
You spill blood...

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THE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

					

I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...

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Falling for you

I can't say my life's been easy,
one thing has helped me get through
from cries in the night to feeling alright
was my dream of me finding you

Lost and alone was my journey,
fruitless my searching...

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(Taking headlines from October 1964,
the poem revisits our shared experience ...)

Monday 5: Fifty-Four East Germans Tunnel to Freedom

Back then, it was not in doubt,
(Richard Burton Tony Quinn):
the Wall was there to keep us out?
No –...

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Como’ Si’ Yama’, Senor’
Como’ Si Yama’, Por Favor’…
… for Below That Embroidered Sombrero’
Shone Eyes Like El Dorado

He Was A Tall and Handsome Hombre’
Like The Range of Sierra Madre’
…Now, He Sat Center The Cantina
Surrounded by Bonita...

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FLEAS


Alarm clock   shows   Saturday   7 30. Yes, please!
More sleep  - a professional  delight for this catcher of fleas. 
For the  present,   I’m working from...

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Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel, the steam rising from the cobblestone street, here in La...

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AntiPoem 31 “Rita Montero”

(Poet’s instruction: Kindly play “Ay, Mama Inez” 
by Rita Montero while reading this AntiPoem)

a red trolley finds Ebbets Field behind a pigtown ditch
significant hotdogs and burnt singles melt into the pitch
Jackie Robinson...

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Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew's house in Liverpool
So his nephew joined the U.S. to fight with the Allies

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
Now, aren't you really glad you tuned in?

There are two...

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Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew's house 
In Liverpool, so he joined the U.S. to fight with the Allies

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
Now aren't you really glad you tuned in?

There are two...

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A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
Now aren't you really glad you tuned in?

There are two hundred million insects for every human
Wouldn't have gone camping if I knowed that!

We weigh slightly less when...

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Hello
Goodbye
Good evening
Ad vitam aeternam.

With my two hands
I kiss you for life
For tomorrow's flowers
And happiness on the rugs.

A kiss on the left
And another on the right
It's not ugly at all.

Deep at the bottom of your narrow...

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What I remember about this day
was first waking and forgetting
about the time of doing in this moment
as I look forward to just being present
Brewing coffee of pumpkin spice
with cream and cinnamon
Lounging to see the daylight...

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Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology
Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see

Canberra, is just antipodean class
Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass

Edinburgh, the capital of the Scots
Freetown, a city,...

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First Date Poets Dozen
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In the night when I can not sleep,

when I dream about dreaming

when even God is sleeping

and the devil is out looking

for lost souls.

I think about silly things,

I think about the baker

who just woke up, his

poor...

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Desde chiquita deseaba
llenarte de orgullo lo triste
fue que nunca se pudo. 

Buscaba del padre que nunca
supo ser; pero no por eso perdí 
la fe. 

A veces te visitaba en el taller 
en que trabajabas y...

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1.) An amoeba on the cellular level
2.) A flashlight on the sun
3.) The Colorado River at 2:15 am
4.) Thursdays on the moon
5.) Oxygen....Strike that....We need that
6.) Blank checks when full checks are needed
7.) Cucumbers that...

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Easter Reading
In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with
 its best friend, a water buffalo. They had ended up
 here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and
 had been...

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Easter Reading 

In Lima – Peru- a hippo was pulling the tram car with 
its best friend a water buffalo. They had ended up
here, far from Africa, after the great flood ebbed and 
had been...

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Mississippi 1954 

"Don’t you bring that no good 
      So and so 'round here. 
If you bring him to ma door 
   Bobby Roy and Billie Joe 
Will...

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My Way 
I saw the three tenors sing “I did it my way” mind, the fat one died, 
and the two others hate each other and never appear in public if
 they can avoid it....

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The Voyage 

The big seagull sat on the bow of my rowing boat 
                     ...

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Café Nuestra, Buenos Aires close to midnight,
heavy perfumed loud tango classic dressed of sight.
Am I willing to compromise myself in that situation,
two to tango after all, slow slow, quick quick, slow creation.
The slow consumes two...

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Amor,
Te escribo de mi puño y letra y con mi corazón en la mano
quizas mis palabras no las quieras escuchar y te causen daño
disculpame si estoy siendo fuerte contigo en este escrito
pero necesito decirtelo sino...

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