Short Chicano Poems

"BEHOLDEN"


three decades ago,
something died
inside of me.
how grateful I have
been.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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I'm a chicano but my skin is light people speak on the unknown and say I'm white.

it doesn't matter to me cause for my blood ill fight so speak only on what you know....

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"A POEM AND A CIGARETTE"


I 
just 
finished 
breakfast.
I'm 
smoking 
this 
cigarette.
I 
write 
about 
it.
pretty 
genius
huh?



By: Chicano Eddie
9-24-2016...

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"ON THE AGENDA"


tonight
Gould
waits
for
the
Pacific
and
I.
tonight
hell
waits
for 
us
all.
oh what fine music
awaits our descension.


By: Chicano Eddie
752017...

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"CITY LIGHTS."


Tchaikovsky 
plays into 
the night 
as the words 
crash in 
for this 
poet and 
the whore 
sleeps after 
the purple 
devils 
choke her 
goodnight.


by: Chicano Eddie
6.28.19...

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Political authenticity stirs gangs tagging ensued, Chicano mural in the brew





A single sentence rich in imagery, 23 syllables. 
Length is dictated by the one breath rule in the delivery of prose....

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"ACTUALITY"


there are 7.5 billion people 
in this world.

there are just a hand full
that know what it means 
to live life

and
 
maybe someday, 
we'll tell them.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-3-2016...

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"WINDEX YOUR REFLECTION"


our entire lives
are judged by
those who cannot 
get their own
shit together.
 
there is judgment 
and there is help.

learn what I've just
done.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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“CURRENTLY”



the select
word for 
the select 
people makes 
way for 
the select 
life.

those who 
select die
before the
selection picks
them.
 
grab the
drink, piss
the revenge.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-28-2016...

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"COMPREHENSION"


the curtain has 
closed.
this to some is the 
end.
this to some is the 
beginning.
some days are 
worse 
than others 
but
the more I think of 
it,
I never shop
for
curtains.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-24-2016...

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“THE ARROW”


this one gave me shit.
that one went to sleep early.
this one asked how I was doing.
that one approved.
this one commented.
that one agreed with me.

love is a dagger 
and
Juliet agrees.


By: Chicano Eddie
10-12-2016...

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"VENTURE"


the world says a
man must love a
woman.
that he must love
her more than himself.
that he must be
everything she has
ever sought after.
the world has been
dying since it's creation.
thank the gods,
I am single.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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“A POEM AT 10:43 PM”



if you don’t leave
anything,
if you write dull shit,
it doesn’t matter what you 
die from.
you gotta leave words
behind.
place me in the oil fields
of Bakersfield
and 
watch me 
die 
before
my death.



By: Chicano Eddie
9-23-2016...

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"CURRENT ASSESSMENT"


ingredients for my
disobedience:
paint the blue balls a
different color.
moral subjectivity is
subjective.
divested through tears
of tantrum.

a man does not become 
perfection without
trials.

loading...


majestic.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-3-2016...

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“BAKERSFIELD: 9-17-16”


it’s hot tonight,
the palm trees stand still
and
I’m stacking close to my
one hundredth poem
after my first one hundred
were taken by that
dirty whore.
the color of love dissolves 
into another
and
I can’t complain at the
moment.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-17-2016...

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"EARS OF FURY"

“I'm done,” she said
and she got out of her
car grabbing
her kid
from the backseat.
“You're not my father,”
she said,
walking away
without lessons from
a father.
then she was
out of my sight,
angry like 
a bull running without
direction in Pamplona.


By: Chicano Eddie
7-17-2016...

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"REQUIEM FOR 8:34AM"

my phone is out of service
today my internet bill is due
my blanket is unfolded
my cell phone charger 
is white
two new eyes
two old eyes
there are no cars
in my driveway
birds circle my clock
my love doesn't grow old
it grows up
today a baby was born


By: Chicano Eddie
8-10-2016...

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"YELLOW TIRES ON THE GRASS"



in the hours 
before the hour
the grass is cut.
the cars pass 
from left to 
right, the cigarette 
stays hot until 
the end. traffic 
jam on the 
99 denied another 
given another. dirty 
clothes are made 
clean the pizza 
is on its 
way.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-26-2016...

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"DAILY TRAVEL"


sometimes the gods throw me into the 
bottom of their 
glasses.
at the bar, 
at my expense, 
the gods have had many laughs, 
still 
do.
I wouldn't have it any other 
way.
the great lines come out of my 
drowning right onto paper
and I love it when 
I'm 
submerged.


By: Chicano Eddie
752017...

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"P.M. LIGHT THROUGH MY LIGHTS"


alone in this house 
alone in this darkness 
the water runs
the fridge hums
the footsteps from
my feet echo
my breathing is a 
sonic boom
the rays of light through 
my blinds upon my wall
alone in this house
with words so few
it's all I need to 
know.


By: Chicano Eddie
752017...

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"MY RI. MI."


she stands naked,
with her back to me.
she holds her hair up
with one hand as the
fingertips from the
other, sit on the base
of her neck.
girls give everything. 
women give simplicity.
love is everything I've 
encapsulated it to be.
here now, is the very 
reason this has come
to be.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-28-2016...

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"FLIES WITHOUT WINGS"


heavy eye lids
and 
tears under the
sun,
tighten the bolts 
on
your armor and
walk.
talk with the ocean,
the
heart will make noise
when 
no one is around to
listen.
I remember your eyes
and 
the way your hair was
parted.
you are what happened 
when
nothing else ever did.


By: Chicano Eddie
10-14-2016...

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“THE FEW”


every loss for a man waters 
every abandoned seed from 
childhood.
it pulls the life from decision
and the decision from life.
murder of the mind keeps you 
animated: human being
murder of the animation keeps your
mind: human doing
if you lose both, 
consider yourself lucky.
it’s one less headache.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-26-2016...

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“REPUGNANT”



new love 
approaches.

recent wounds 
drips less
as the 
circumference 
closes in.

the bees 
disappear 
from the hives

as children 
from the land 
fall to the 
root inside 
the dollar.

you live,
you laugh,
as life 
laughs
at you.

the dog 
barks and 
the 
butterfly 
hardens.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-27-2016...

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"ALTERNATIVE"

love is the bastard
child of insanity.
one eternity
can alter a choice.
it isn't the air
that fills our lungs,
it is the choices 
the gods lay before 
us.
all of what we've 
chosen,
all of what we will
choose
and all of what we
will ignore. 
it is only when we
have no choices 
that we are sincerely 
vigorous.


By: Chicano Eddie
7-11-2016...

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