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The Guardians

You came and faded in the rising sun like snow
But left my heart a glow
Your smile was ever golden and pure 
Like the heart of your nurture

You shed tears so my hopes and dreams will show 
Even though the wheel of fate was slow 
You poured your sweat and blood on loam
So this young soul would not roam 

I wish you stayed longer to see me grow 
But deep in my heart I know 
One day I shall feel those loving arms again freely 
May it be for eternity 

For your memory never failed to guide my dream
Though I see you no more 
I feel your hope like a stream 
Like surging waves on the shore


In memory of my grandparents Vicente and Antonina

El Charro

For Vicente Fernandez

The dirt
The sweat
The horses,
Saddles off,
Brushed.

The girl who thinks she is pregnant.
The woman who is.
The man with no money is his pocket
The man with pockets full.
The man who stumbles.
The women who watch.

The broken hearts
The soon to be’s
The finger waggers
The I-will-nevers
The I-told-you so’s.

But listen!
Everything stops.
The world and its noise 
And clatter and-
    He sings!
    Listen!
You can hear
The sound of falling in love
The quiet flames filling space
And space and space again.
The skirts swirl
The men dance when they couldn’t before.
El Charro!
El Charro!
Nothing is wrong
When we hear your voice
Fill the night
Across our lonely plains
And valleys and mountains.

Turn up the radio
Turn it up loud-
Loud.
El Charro sings!
El Rey!
He sings!

Adios Don Vicente

Chente—mi amigo, compadre, hermano
Troubadour of our pain untold
Minstrel of our abandoned souls
Keeper of our traditions bold

So loved by La Virgen de Guadalupe
That she took you on Her day
Now heaven’s honored balladeer
For Her now, you may play

You leave us with our sorrow
Our inconsolable despair
So, with a soft prayer on our lips
We plead—Volver!  Volver!

Enjoyable Sentence

P-oetic 
R-emembrance's 
E-njoyable 
S-entence 
C-onveys 
I-nspiring 
L-etter 
L-etting 
A-nnual 

V-erse 
I-n 
C-omposition 
E-mploy 
N-ame's 
T-rue 
E-ssence 

Topic: Birthday of Prescilla Vicente (March 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Captivating Event

P-oem
R-ightfully
E-mploys
S-imple
C-ompaser's
I-nspiring
L-ines
L-etting
A-crostic

V-erse
I-mplement
C-aptivating
E-vent's
N-iftily
T-hought
E-xpression

Topic: Birthday of Prescilla Vicente (March 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Birthday of Noble Thinker

V-erse
I-s
C-omposed
E-mploying
N-oble
T-hinker's
E-ventful

B-irthday
A-s
R-ighteous
C-elebrant
E-njoys
L-iterary
L-ine
A-t
N-atal
O-ccasion

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Vicente Barcellano (October 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Noble Tendency

P-oetic
R-ighteousness
E-xpresses
S-weet
C-ompassion
I-nside
L-etting
L-ove
A-nd

V-ery
I-mportant
C-harity
E-mploy
N-oble
T-endency
E-verywhere

Topic: Birthday of Prescilla Vicente (March 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Letting Light Abate Night

V-iew
I-n
C-lear
E-nvironment
N-aturally
T-winkles
E-ndorsing

B-eacon
A-s
R-efulgent
C-oolness
E-merges
L-etting
L-ight
A-bate
N-ight
O-bscurity

Topic: Birthday of Vicente Barcellano (October 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Do It Again Now

D-o
I-t
A-gain
N-ow
A-s

M-inutes
A-nd
E-yeblink

V-anish
I-nto
C-louds
E-very
N-ight
T-ill
E-arliness

Topic: Birthday of Diana Mae L. Vicente (September 02)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Jago and Uma: We Didn'T Start the Family

jago christos uma rose
ethan cuevas corone
kelly elizabeth christos
alexia daniel wade jonathan james
emily-rose pau and willow too 

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the family
no we didn't fight it
but we did light it

juan estanislao alicia
george atha jennifer ann
diego agustin angel carlos
maria del transito cuevas gallego
eve corone bosch jim louis nick christos
lynette shirley helen lorraine 
smither tracey linda middleton 
marisa jane owen wastle haylock

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
since the world's been turning
we didn't start the family
no we didn't fight it
but we did light it

francisca bosch ferrer
josep corone company
maria del transito gallego llorente
vicente cuevas garcia
kalopa christou stefandis
triain szosza todol christou
shirley rose brian fredrick haylock
vanne lena milanko etcetera

we didn't start the family
it was always growing
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the family
No we didn't fight it
But we did light it

[to be read like billy joel's "we didn't start the fire"]

In Coolness

V-iew
I-n
C-oolness
E-rases
N-ight's
T-wilight
E-ndorsing

B-eacon
A-s
R-ainy
C-old
E-vening
L-ets
L-ight 
A-nd
N-ewness
O-pen

Topic: Birthday of Vicente Barcellano (June 01) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Somber Psalm, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: Salmo Sombrio

Somber psalm, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Salmo sombrio

(from Carlos Bousono’s first book of poems, written before he was 22 : Subida al amor (Ascent into love), 1945, and dedicated to the 1977 Nobel laureat, Vicente Aleixandre.) 


Do not pass by me , O ! God ! incognito,
do not cross my path like a sky emptied of its stars,
for my body turns in upon itself in flames,
loving you in silence with such persistent anguish.

Do not cross my path while I keep loving an obscure entity,
while I continue to whimper among cactuses, among stones.
So turn Your face away, Your face that I fear
during such a roaring and wild night !

Keep Your distance from me ! Abandon me in the dark !
so that I may wish to be the source and thirst of this earth
in order to be able to love this twisted
trunk of a body sans light, all alone in this blinding wilderness !

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013

The River Sea

THE   RIVER   SEA

Even from islands of the Antilles -
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
In  the  very foothills of the Andes
And its golden  yellow meadow.
 
Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile;   
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter -
With  its fast bore fierce and tidal  -
Floods half a continent with water,

Floods half the planet with oxygen.
Large ocean ships sail up it free.
Probes fresh lobes far into salt ocean. 
To Brazilians it is   - The River Sea.  

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NOTE

Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first European 
to visit the Amazon in 1500

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Entered in Barbara Gorelick's Contest  "A River Runs Through It"

Amazon

AMAZON  

Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile   
And its fast bore fierce and tidal. 
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter
Floods half a continent with water,
Floods half the planet with oxygen,
Probes fresh lobes far into salt ocean. 

To Brazilians it is  The River Sea  -
Large ocean ships sailed up it free,
Even from islands of the Antilles
To  the  very foothills of the Andes,
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
And its golden  yellow meadow.
 
…………………………………

NOTE

Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first European to visit the Amazon in 1500

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