Strong and constant able to envoke a standard
the excelance of knowing
usine a premise of expereince to consider ones current position
anwsering to be suit the situation
where the reality of the position describes what the
job actually requires.
Having never been in the genre he needed intructions
to what to say in order to
sell his product and gain the respect of those
who spoke the same langage
from the position of artist and business person.
Those who were nocvice to each understanding
would need to be
advised and taught what was
right to say might they spoke
wrong it could create turmoil
o create a rift between those
who gathered the words.
She said to the person
I once
was hired without knowing
enough about my craft.
I spoke the wrong words like
I was as expereinced as those I was talking to.
Over heard enough of the words
to get thon: I lacked
the knowledge and finacail resources to
ask and anwser some questions.
What I offered was me:
and saying certain things as a novice
could ruin you
when you get to the point
of being a seasoned
Categories:
rican, business, culture, endurance, film,
Form: Ballade
Written By: D. Collins 5/22/24
My Boom-Box played this beautiful collab.
Two blood brothers rapping like we never had.
Talent is talent, and it ain't my fault.
They mastered the 187 on an undercover cop.
An NWA remix with a Puerto Rican twist.
A touch of Heavy D. with a dot that doesn't miss.
They're native New Yorkers, so you know they spit fast.
The way they pass the baton will knock you on your ass.
Spitting it Ill-Na-Na with a Puerto Rican roll.
If you're not listening, then you don't know.
They were rapping extravagant in front of our nose.
That remix of 187 with Big Pun and Fat Joe.
Categories:
rican, music,
Form: Rhyme Royal
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 female taught a dance;
In just a little while…
We visitors all left our seats
And, following her moves,
We all (including little kids)
Soon found our special grooves.
Though I, the oldest dancer,
Would leave nobody impressed,
I enjoyed this unexpected fun,
As maybe you have guessed.
*the main drum, which set the rhythm
Categories:
rican, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme
Costa Rican Sunrise
Written: by Tom Wright
1/16/2014
What Tom sees
At sunrise God’s handiwork is seen
A pied image by the Master’s hand
Into dangling palm branches green
And loitering shadows shielding sand
Soon revealing white capped breakers
So wax your boards get ready to frolic
Surf is rising, are there yet any takers
God’s love through nature is symbolic
Categories:
rican, god, love, nature,
Form: Lyric
Faces smiling, nodding politely
At words they don't seem
To understand,
Show me pictures,
Showing the richness of
A faraway distant land,
Multicoloured motor cars,
Brown apartments
Rising high in Puerto Rican skies.
Categories:
rican, car, memory, nostalgia, sky,
Form: Lyric
Slice that ripe green Avocado
Love it with my rice and beans
Oh it looks so ripe and yellow
Slice it like a tangerine
Let's make love under La Palma
Lay out our blanket on the clean
Luquillo sand - allow the Puerto Rican
Sun to bath us with its warm Latino hands
Soothe our bodies, comfort our Souls
Heat our blood as we become one under
La Palma and Puerto Rican Sun
Excerpt from "The Big Apple Turns Brown When
You Slice It - selected poems and essays of my
Nuyorican Culture." 2002 www.authorhouse.com
Categories:
rican, culture
Form: Light Verse