Long Chavez Poems

Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 3 Dolores Huerta by T. Wignesan

3. Dolores Huerta

aucun coq n’y annonce la reveille:
les étudiants et les dirigeants des travailleurs 
font partie du piquet de grève contre les...

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"He was a brave, resourceful and honest boy. He would have been a successful man under 
other circumstances. I loved the youngster in the old days and can say now after the passing 
fifty years...

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Never want my kids to see what I have seen
Little girls dreams broken at the seams
They say kids don’t remember the bad things
My childhood is made up of the sad songs that people sing
Grew up...

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Tracing Outlines on my cup of tea
I stare at him out of the corner of my cavernous coffee eyes
Sitting there reading Che, Zapata, Chavez, Castro 
Blinking, breathing, seething
       ...

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"He was not a wanton killer as dark as a Mexican.
He was a fair complexioned boy who was always smiling.
He was very brave and loyal to all of his friends.
When he was killed, many Spanish...

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OUR FRIENDS FROM THE UNDERWORLD ©

Soul to soul, our echoes roll
Melancholy from the depth of my divine despair
And a rush of blood which causeth bloodshot in the eye
And they smell fear like a canine
Filled with...

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Pies Politics And Birds

300 lbs. can’t hide my weight from stealing pies from bakeries 
But I need my pies and will not be deprived
A warm pumpkin pie slides inside my shorts
Blueberry and cream go in...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

There’s a new kid in town in DC
With an old and tired philosophy
To make everything free’s what she says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

With a theory of life adolescent
In which everyone wins prize and a present
You...

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Social injustice and economic inequality 
have always been practiced in our Nation's working industry
Irish need not apply, Hispanics we don't want your kind
and Blacks don't even show your face
this was the typical response to ethnic...

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Across the horizon I will see you from sky 
 In vain I shall fall into the burning sun
drinking the blood of my wife at the moonlight sky
 darkness were my failures are shown.
emerge this...

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Adieu Fidel Castrol! Adieu Castro!
What a life, What an adventure!
The west with its sophisticated propaganda
could not kill you. In your prime they sought to 
assassinate you, yet the world counted on you!
you were the evil...

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now that Chavez is dead,
the american oil companies
chomping at the bit
begin to salivate & lick their lips,
seething
with the foam
of potent country-gutting
rabies---
for while he was alive,
Venezuela was one of the only
countries left, 
who resisted the empire’s...

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A memorial poetry today February 6th, 2018 to remember our loved one - late Andrew Chavez.

POURING INK FOR ANDREW ©
Imagine if we're given one moment
Just a single slice of the past
We'd hold it down amid...

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Love is moment that can be kept for many years.
Love is even far away.
Love is air that can be pass by threw the window cracks.
Love holds the greatest moments which we spent together. Every emotion...

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I know this year has us gone up and down and I know that everyday has my heart for you from the beginning I know that I could not hold on to you but every...

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I am John F. Kennedy as 
President. 
   I am a civil right activist 
100 percent. 

   I am Woodstock rock n 
Roll festival. 
   I am the first...

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Scandal is always hard to mention with these emotional feelings as you may have the perfect reason to stand up and speak with a delicate passion. Distracting results may find me admirable to my people...

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Than lady liberty
Than the lamp of democracy
Land of the free
Land of the brave
Land of so many freedom fighters
Letting us be masterful poets and fanciful writers
When things don’t go your way
There is still Free Press to...

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Do unto others before they can do unto you
Call it preemption and lie through your teeth when you do.
Make up connections to terror, folks don’t have a clue.
Be sure you’re firmly entrenched when they find...

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I wish Cesar was here 
now
Someone who know how important
farm workers are, giving them a strong
voice,
You got to see this empire
and how it has exploited all the life
that built it,
And all the money spent to...

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You frown with disapproval since you have a pedigree.
Born in the USA, you say, ancestors crossed the sea.

Proud of your German heritage, and I am just a hick.
Your phony pearls, your knock-off bag, you always...

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Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer
Eighteen years old, first of the later date 
protest folk singers
Famous before Bob Dylan!

Songwriter, musician, and activist. 
Folk music of protest and social justice, 
in the fields of nonviolence,...

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Would the new government continue from where CHAVEZ left,
 and even do better where necessary?
Is it possible that the new administration's governance is about
 uplifting the standards of VENEZUALAN PEOPLE through fostering
  sustainable development?

Can...

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Denied, 2010
Vickie M. Ortiz Vázquez

Human
Human am I
So, I hear I am human
Therefore, human rights by nature are mine
Who have spoken of these?
Martin Luther King, Jr
Cesar Chavez
The Black Panther Party and the F.L.A.N

Human am I
Born female...

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From Ebbett’s Field, they had to move away.
This team sought greener pastures in LA.
What they needed was a little change of scene.
The team moved into a park at Chavez Ravine.

Back in Brooklyn, the boys had...

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