Long Padres Poems

For the Valentine’s season
Send forth a tastefully written card
To any wonderfully wise person
Is a good endeavor. That’s not bad.

However, sending exquisite flowers
Is the best, sweetest archetypal way
To say, I love you many times over
Over, and...

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I got it from watching my 60-year-old abuelo come home every night chingotiado from picking cilantro till his hands turned green and purple So that his children’s children could go to school in Tejas. It...

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Naciste en San Jose, California; eres Americana. Mis padres creados en Guanajuato, son Mexicanos. Me crié hablando espanol con música de mariachi y fue inculcada en mi la cultura y tradiciones de mi México. Estuviste...

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Blessings

He gave me a life in this world, I know I am part of His plan.
He gave me loving parents, the best that I could have.
He gave me brothers and sisters
Through them I learned to...

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They are not natural enemies, 
nor were they ever meant to be ....
True, for a time when Faith was strong, 
Science was bound, cowed, driven down--
until Science began its growth spurt: 
by leaps it enlarged,...

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El Día Antes de la Navidad

La mañana antes de la navidad
Ni un pasó ni un ruido escuchar
Papá y Mamá esperando ansiosos
Para demostrarles a todos que son cariñosos

Cuando de repente Papá se levanta
Y escucha un carro...

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My new born child, unto the Lord I give
That in his shadow, he may walk and live.
And so, this day into the Church I go
To Christen him with a water’s flow

His tiny body in a...

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The doors opened wide,
A Cowboy tired an’ worn.

Tears in his hide,
Even his chaps were torn.

Walkin’ towards’im, the old Padre heard,
He’as mumblin’ a story wild.

Sixty moons back he’d lost the herd,
How he liked ‘ole Curly cooked...

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Argentinian Tango

The night had been crying of icy tears on the window glass
I kissed the glass a thousand guitars played in Buenos Aires
the night Eva Peron died.
From ignominy to a famous mistress, it takes a...

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Chave para motivar - de padres a soldados
de Presidentes a consultoras(as)...
A chave para a motivação
A Chave para motivar
é o compromisso,
para refletir amor e luz
trabalho e reconhecimento.

A chave para a motivação
A Chave para motivar
e a lembrança...

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Sunday Forenoon

She is listening to the Catholic mass
On TV and I’m banned from the living room
She takes her religion serious 
And will be spared of any sarcastic remarks
About how the Padres are dressed and me
Wondering...

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It is the third largest city in California.
It lies just north of the border from Tijuana.
This is a nice big town where many a tourist stays.
The municipality is home to the Chargers and Padres.
The weather...

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The San Diego crowds you continued to amaze
in your twenty seasons playing for the Padres.
A lifetime batting average of .338
and over three thousand hits are feats so great.
As you played the outfield with fluid dexterity...

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Outside my place on the Lower East Side
The rain is falling 
I think the Mets are playing tonight and if 
they are I will
watch those electric warriors battle 
Someone gave me a T-Shirt
with an image...

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