What Santiago Did Not Say
The sea!
What does the sea mean
without an old man?
And the waves,
The rambunctious waves,
What are they doing exactly?
The waves work
They seem to play.
And as you see,
The sea is free
But still respects the land.
We come and visit it
Because that’s what we need.
Yet, it treats us all the same
We, as kids playing and fighting
and shouting..
Rarely did we
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Categories:
santiago, life,
Form: Free verse
Santiago Y Juan Carlos
I know rich men who have lived under bridges
and poor men that have never starved a day in their life.
Conozco a hombres ricos que han vivido bajo puentes
y a hombres pobres que nunca han pasado hambre un dia en sus vidas
Necesito que sepas
I need you to know
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Categories:
santiago, career, dream, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Poyecto De Tren Instantaneo Entre Santiago Y Puerto Montt By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Proyecto de tren instantaneo entre Santiago y Puerto Montt by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the Nobel Prize, studied Physics
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Categories:
santiago, allegory, extended metaphor, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Felipe Santiago
i gave you my hand,
with out knowing you,
igave you my body.
not a clue of what you'd make me feel,
i gave you my heart,
blindly risked the unattempted,
i gave you a child.
unaware i just gave my life and
my all to a stranger
and from all i gave i also recieved
excitement, pleasure, love, and
happyness from once a
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Categories:
santiago, dedication, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost
Form: Verse
Domingo & Santiago
Windswept lovers blown to & fro
Lost at sea so long ago
Their time togehter was bittersweet
Years have past, their love repeats
Picking up where they last left off...
Windswept lovers from long ago
Their names were Domingo & Santiago
Lost at sea, their love transcends
Their love repeats...
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Categories:
santiago, lost lovelove,
Form: Prose Poetry