Cocal
...Behold the shout of “SEA!” where ends the land
down Manzanilla way on windward shore -
on coconut road, on ribbons of sand
and follow a trail of palms to its door.
Upon wet beachcomber fo...
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Categories:
manzanilla, beach, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
The Children Wait On the Shore
...the children wait on the shore
eyes fastened to the horizon
behind them stand the women
with a gaze far more serious
all impervious to rain and wind
the hurricane had turned inland
last night i...
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Categories:
manzanilla, culture, destiny, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Olives
...Olives
I like olives - so smooth and round,
wrinkled or puckered, by the pound,
from the deli or in a jar,
savory flavours, the best by far.
Firm and juicy, large or small,
ripe or salty, I...
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Categories:
manzanilla, food, funny,
Form: Couplet
On the Beach
...From all over they coming
See them parking every where
All kinds of food they bringing
Rum, sweet drinks and cold beer
See them on the beach walking
Under the Trinidad sun
And when you hear them tal...
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Categories:
manzanilla, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
The Perfect Gentle Man
...All alone my father use to ride
On the long lonely streets
That runs through cane fields’
While we are warm under our sheets
My father was very hard working
And he always had a smile to show
Even wh...
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Categories:
manzanilla, father, father, work, father,
Form: Light Verse
Busboy Forest
...Under paper napkin clouds, silver bridges connect the great red mesa.
Bubbling soda rivers run silently behind the spiced Marinara bathed angel hair.
Discarded pipeline strew the banks where black...
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Categories:
manzanilla, food
Form: Verse