Get Your Premium Membership

Puerto Rican Poems - Poems about Puerto Rican

Sleepy senoritas with the eyes on fire

...


Cause:


my great grandma was "Hispanic" (Puerto Rican), my slight tan will put me in that cast of ugly characters, 'Crayola American's' to be  shipped across the Mexican border, but I don't...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, america, humor,
Form: Burlesque

Tupac'N Puerto Rican

...Written By:  D. Collins 5/22/24



 My Boom-Box played this beautiful collab.
 Two blood brothers rapping like we never had.
 T...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, music,
Form: Rhyme Royal



Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024

...Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday,
Form: Free verse

The Puerto Rican Band

...The museum had a festive treat – 
A Puerto Rican band,
With drums and one maraca, 
Beats that we could understand.

The leader on the primo* drum
Explained about their style
And the only femal...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme

Who Wants Me

...Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying to get picked.  
Maybe th...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, community, confidence, confusion, culture,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWalking the Straight-And-Narrow

...5.0 grade-point on a 4.0 scale
    Climbed Mt. Everest, the 'icy trail'
  His summer job was 'Director of Sales'
    This straight male applied early to Yale

  Puerto Rican knockout with Eskimo...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, confusion, crazy, education, gender,
Form: Couplet

Apology To the Missus At Nighttime

...Apology to the missus at nighttime...
first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process
of leaving a telephone message
for our eldest daughter,
(on vacati...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, angst, anniversary, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSunday Funnies Iii

...Obi-Wan Kenobi's lesser known brothers:

The womanizer, Don-Wan

Founder of the Puerto Rican Capitol, San-Wan

The divorce attorney, Nobody-Wan

The Chinese Food chef, Sesh-Wan

Inve...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, brother, humor,
Form: Monorhyme

Thanks 4 Giving Me Reason To Write Mish Mashed Gobbledygook

...written few years ago
preceding breakup of first born offspring   
and her Puerto Rican born beau,
when existence of averred progeny did flow
smooth and minimally disrupted
she exhibited counten...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, america, celebration, community, family,
Form: Free verse

Damsel In Distress

...Heartbroken lass bereft of eminent beau
papa doth vicariously experience her
(mine daughter's) grievous woe.

Unfair a budding promising relationship nought
going to incorporate wedded bliss,
w...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, absence, boyfriend, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGuanica

...You slept in, I walked to the beach
“I love you” an old American hippy yelled
”And the mosquitos do too!”

My big red welts
A souvenir of our night in Guanica
A stay forced by the Puerto Rican ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, boyfriend, break up, desire,
Form: Free verse

Name That Tune

...The chatter of small birds frame a window of light.
My kettle is coughing; soon its shrill whistle
will startle me, even though I know exactly
when it will erupt.
Two pelicans have been sighted i...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, poetry,
Form: Free verse

True Love

...I always find a way to get what I want in my life and I got a great wife true love that I want ever get up on I want a better life for us I know Spencer NC wasn't the answer for us it was to much dra...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, cute love, sweet love,
Form: Free verse

Underestimated

...No hell no fail 
Can't tell ?!?
Criss crossed hands nailed railroad
Nervous nails chewed low 
Crisscrossed knees with broken elbows
Smile on the face 
hanging from the spikes like velcro
Head ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, confidence, conflict, dedication, deep,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberStand

...On this day stand
For your flag
Even if its in
Puerto Rican sand...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: puerto rican, america,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things