El Baile de los Chisos
Like a burnished silver concho, from Pancho Villa’s boot
That ol’ Spanish moon comes slidin’ over Encantada Butte
Then the Chisos they go stealin’, down Coahuila way
Montaña mariachis and they’re comin’ out to play
Baile con mio M'hijito
Señoritas, come dance and sing
Dance por mañana acechanzas
And soon the long shadows grow
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Categories:
los, extended metaphor, song, spanish,
Form: Verse
Behind the times of los Angeles California
It doets
In file
Creating improv
Of government structure code
Deep in the winde to pause
The slouch is may, or you without silence
The eavesdropping behind the times
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Categories:
los, art,
Form: Bio
Uncharted Love
In the halls of learning, where whispers grow,
Two hearts met, began to glow.
A glance, a smile, a moment shared—
A silent bond, unspoken, yet declared.
Through bustling streets and crowded halls,
They walked together, love enthralled.
A sip of tea, an evening stroll—
In laughter and talks, their hearts felt whole.
But love was shadowed by a wall,
A faith divide, a
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Categories:
los, courage, emotions, feelings, first
Form: Narrative
Dia De Los Muertos
I come to see you in this gray place.
The place between awake and asleep,
The void between life and death,
I come to see you in this place.
In a few short months the veil will lift.
The gray will be replaced with color and life.
We will be able to visit one another.
I will be waiting for you here.
In
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Categories:
los, brother, death, dedication, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Tomb
Never had I met you
Still I know your name,
Because of the notoriety
Because of the fame
Written in stone
Forever and a day,
Many gone too soon
Seems to happen that way
Halls of Hollywood memories
Echo down the tomb ...
In a place of reverie
Not a place of gloom
Legends of the silver screen
Lives of cinema and
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Categories:
los, celebrity, death, grave, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Dia de los Muertos
Dia de Los Muertos
Day of the Dead
Originated by Aztecs
Celebrated in Mexico and Philippines
Aztecs called it Miccaihuitl
Catholics call it All Saints Day and All Souls Day
I call it Day of the Dead
Tribute to our ancestral souls
Honoring those in our family who have died
Keeping their memory alive
We celebrate with music, food and drink
festivals and parades
Women dress as
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Categories:
los, travel,
Form: Prose Poetry
Categories:
los, city, dark, light, moon,
Form: Haiku
Baxter Street Monday
Anti-Poem — “Baxter Street Monday”
me trudging walking
gripping onward forward
traipsing baxter street monday
and its steep inclines
going up like a dizzy sparrow
passing vertical merry go rounds
the sly moulin rouge turnabouts
that sip spit with maraschino endives
scanning thighs ripe with hard-ons
the stoner pink boys
lost in rainbow cul-de-sacs
lost amidst the traffic tirades
the propelling grind
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Categories:
los, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Ooops, That Scale
That day, I was on my scale, thought I was fat?
Till I realized, i was holding two, five pound cats!
Scales are deadly, for women, it is proven true.
Use
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Categories:
los, encouraging, humor, women,
Form: Couplet
Going To See Honey Sanchez
Anti-Poem— “Going To See Honey Sanchez”
gloria and me we take a yellow taxi from canoga park
we go to see honey sanchez at the olympic on grand
she be the dragon lady on skates she and terri lynch
both of them girls be tough as nails in their ripe beauty
both wearing thunderbird white riding fire and blood
lighting
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Categories:
los, memory,
Form: Free verse
Todos Los Dias
Ay te quiero,
no matter how I say it;
Todos los dias
engrossing every sunrise
and woven in each sunset.
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Categories:
los, emotions, feelings, love, romance,
Form: Tanka
Touch Foot Ball
On Saturday, the L A Rams
Encountered the Monterey Clams
With no and, if, or but
It was open and shut
The Sopranos limped home like lambs!
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Categories:
los, football, humor,
Form: Limerick
Dia De Los Muertos
Dia de los Muertos
Hurray! It's Dia de los Muertos
The day when we joyfully celebrate
The departed whom we now feel are close
And with whom we can communicate.
We have their photo on the ofrenda
With their favorite savory dishes
Much merriment is on the agenda
Family gatherings and holiday wishes.
Skulls and skeletons are all around
We even paint them on our
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Categories:
los, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Grid Lock At Los Angles Harbor
Why are the all of the harbors of Western Europe and Asia open twenty-four hours a day? When there are not enough long longshoreman and dock workers at our LA Harbor?
Workers are being paid more money to remain at home and collect unemployment! If our people are hungry they will become desperate! And our enemies
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Categories:
los, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Amor En Los Caminos Rurales De Mi Alma
You in the distance
you in the ever present
you in my fantasy
you my reality
you the bare water nymph of El Raso
the statuesque beauty
you of a uncommon sensuality
you my craving for passionately
You in a smile of the rivers tranquility
you in see-through
you in the country lanes of my soul
you as you walk slowly towards me
you in those
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Categories:
los, love,
Form: Free verse
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