Spanish MusicI don't know how,
To speak Spanish,
But I love the music,
I hope that one day,
I'll learn the language,
And sing my heart out.
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Categories:
spanish, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
By the Streetlampsun-dried, saltwater-rusted
bench sits above cherry bricks
undulating like pan-fried
bacon strips, by the streetlamp
where lazy dogs whine at once
and also lose their bladders
and imagine chuletas
in the beaconed street's limelight...
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Categories:
spanish, animal, dog, food, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
LA GORDITA SERRANOEstos son los cuentos
Que se abarca por los vientos
De La Gordita Serrano
En una noche de Verano!
Que día de aventura
Te lo contaré sin añadidura!
El cuento de su boda será la que perdura
Como Tampiqueña de estatura!
Ay, como lo siento
Por La Gordita La De Serrano
Pero NO por su esposo El Guanaco Poblano
El Cuento es un bocadillo
Que pica...
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Categories:
spanish, cinco de mayo, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Translator“Mom, they called my name I won.”
“Mijo, estoy tan orgullosa de ti, qué bendición.”
Her voice lifts when I tell her.
Like music in a language they don’t teach in school.
At the store, at school, at the doctor’s front desk
I become her mouth. I become her ears.
They...
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Categories:
spanish, appreciation, blessing, family, language,
Form: Free verse
BajonRobarme el destino
Los weyes son kimo
Porque me la Pelan
Nada es sencillo
todo Viene junto
Vengo de abajo ,
Estoy en la orilla,
Dale dela misma
Me bajo en el monte,
y salgo elegante,
con cinto serpente
mirada cortante.
No conozco suerte,
ni ruego favores,
Ya nadien apolla
Crecí entre los tiros,
engaños y gente,
hablan de guerra,
yo soy de frente
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Categories:
spanish, courage, destiny, fate, song,
Form: Verse
BellaBella,
me enamoré con ella,
reflejo de estrella
brillando en su mirada tan bella.
Como las nubes,
el día no se me lleva
cuando estoy con ella,
mi mente se queda.
Si llueve, yo soy su paraguas,
la cuido del mundo,
del drama y las malas.
Ese es el diseño,
es fuego conmigo en la cama.
Dice que me ama,
dice que me ame,
y cuando lo dice,
el alma...
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Categories:
spanish, beauty, for her, love,
Form: Verse
El AvionPonle atención a la movida
El billete rinde todo el día
Sangre, sudor, lágrima
La venganza siempre vale más
Bendiciones para mis amigos
La familia siempre está conmigo
R15 enfocado cuando voy fumando
Presidente
Suficiente, unos van y vienen
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Categories:
spanish, blessing, culture, flying, growth,
Form: Verse
Consecration, the Sun Bleeds over SevilleThe beast Alhambra
roared a violent psalm
Vile conversos
horrid moriscos,
the heretic herds
A spear thrust into
our sun’s martyred ribs
Held in hateful grips
the yellow warblers
dripped in crimson sheen
Flying like Michael
the vengeful vassal
of Aragon’s decree
“O Torquemada
Hark the righteous call
King of Suprema
Execute them all!”
Cold unfeeling wretch,
the flesh guillotine
Teeth clicking sparks
lit endless pyres
Three made Seville
weep at the sight of...
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Categories:
spanish, christian, history, horror, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
Spanish mossstrands of silver green
Spanish moss draping from trees
swaying in the breeze...
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Categories:
spanish, color, nature, tree, wind,
Form: Haiku
Dibujando EstrellasDibujo estrellas
En mi piel como en el papel.
Para el alma vieja y dulce,
Eso no fue más allá del verano de quinto grado.
Para el falso hijo de gran espíritu,
Eso me destruyó para su propio disfrute,
Cuando ellos eran realmente los que estaban siendo
Destruido detrás de las puertas.
No dibujo un círculo ni un cuadrado
Dibujo estrellas.
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Categories:
spanish, 8th grade, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ascend with me, my American love!
Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!
The Urubamba’s torrential silver
lures pollen to fly from its golden chalice
while above this canyon’s unbroken silence
everything soars: the climbing grapevines,
the shopworn plants, each inflexible garland.
Come, elfin life, test your wings above the earth,
test...
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Categories:
spanish, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse
La chica de Ipanema
Oceanic moonlight, glows on her soft hands.
Her heavenly torso so at rest on cool sands.
Penning romantic poetry...
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Categories:
age, beach, imagery, spanish,
Form: Rhyme
Three Poems From al-AndalusIn the tidy marina,
the tide is going out.
My last image of her
tugs at its mooring.
I pause on a slope
of the Alpujarras.
The wide sky can't
encompass my loss.
A hooded crow calls
two hours before fajr.
The engraver has come,
desperate for epitaphs.
First published in NOON: Journal...
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Categories:
arabic, islamic, spanish,
Form: Free verse
TaniaTania
There was a young lady named Tania
Who wanted to dance in Espania
She really let go
Doing the flamenco
And her whirling, it nicely did fan yer...
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Categories:
dance, spanish,
Form: Limerick
The Bull and the MatadorThe Bull and the Matador
Stalwartly, the bull gaits around
the confines of the arena ring;
snorting and displaying
piercing horns and muscle-bulk build.
For this he was bred and raised;
to be a champion of beasts,
and no matter where placed,
will claim as his domain and ferociously
defend until death, if necessary.
Then into the ring swaggeringly treads the matador
(flamboyantly dressed, touting a...
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Categories:
culture, spanish, sports,
Form: Verse
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