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Dream

Dark room, flickering light
A single bed, satin sheets
Inviting and bright

No words were pronounced, 
Screaming in my head,
I wanna wake up now
Escape this little place

Dream or fantasy? 
Oasis in your sparkling eyes
Better not look at them
The price for waking up again

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2020



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Poem 1

My heart has two names 
And a couple places to live 
Four beautiful blue eyes 
And any of them can be seen  

One feeling came first 
Along with the youth  
The other would come later 
Blossom into adulthood 

Winter and summer, 
Holding each other under Christmas lights, 
Sand lighten by the stars in an August night 

One gave me freedom 
The other built my cage 
I wouldn’t be able to leave it 
Not until today 
 
Two continents, inconsolable differences, 
Tradition, toughness, cold hearts 
A different way, a different mood  
Leaves of grass and snowy woods 

Meine Liebe, mein Shatz 
My dear or sweetheart 
I’ll keep you forever 
In this little piece of art

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2019

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Poem 4

I’m here now 

Tomorrow I don’t know  

 

It feels stupid  

The idea of being scared  

of something you can’t control 

But still it’s the most common fear 

In every human being standing in the Earth 

 

The cruel nature of the uncertainness 

You spend every minute in your life 

Getting ready for the end of it 

 

Stress in everyday life 

Doesn’t let us see the beauty around us 

Spending time with people you love, 

Being hold endlessly by a mother, 

Sharing personal jokes with dad, 

Watching “The Sound of Music” once more 

Looking at his face until I can’t forget any detail 

Listening the playful laugh of your nephew 

 

At the end of the day 

What is really important is 

What makes you feel so alive 

You think you’ll live eternally 

 

But the truth is death is going to catch you 

You don’t have the privilege or curse to know when 

 

Just live well, just live

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2019

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I Miss America

I miss America 

And I’ve never been there 

It may seem impossible 

Nothing but an affair 

 

I miss America 

And that colorful flag 

The girl from Pennsylvania 

Past full of sweat and blood 

 

I miss America 

White and black skin, 

Dominant race or just a sin 

But still loving the dream it means 

 

I miss America 

Young, wild, magnificent New World 

A stolen country from those who saw it born 

Mohawk or Cherokee, savages 

For the ones who don’t understand 

 

I miss America 

At least the idea of it 

Like Sinatra I’ll do it in my way 

The day we can finally meet

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2020

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Poem 5

Summer of ‘19 

The sound of the waves healing my soul 

The sand caresses my skin 

 

Death taking any kind of hope away 

But that was just before coming face to face with you 

And your particular and hopeful vision of a runaway American Dream 

 

You brought glorious technicolor to my life 

A life all covered in grey  

Cause that’s what friends do 

 

Feeling nothing but amazement while reading every line in that little notebook 

Only means of access to the deepest part of your complex mind 

 

You taught me how it feels to live like a Rolling Stone 

Keep wondering how to make it count 

The answer is still blowing in the wind  

 

Free, ambitious, intellectual minds 

Hungry hearts can’t be stopped by anyone 

But somehow baby we were born to run

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2019



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Poem 3

Who can afford to be weak? 

Definitely not me  

Who can cry in front of others fearless? 

There is no way for me once more 

 

The journey to “my life”, 

A very heavy price to pay,  

I’m not walking my own path 

They’ll leave me standing in the dark 

 

Everyone I know has a date of expiration 

Written in their faces with permanent marker 

 

My heart is filled with hope 

No more goodbyes, 

No more short-term stays 

I’ll steal the key and take it away

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Poem 2

III 

I took a step backward right on time 

Begging on my knees, losing my dignity 

Putting into risk my physical integrity 

 

I feel pity for her, 

Your inviting Asian eyes, 

They make impossible to notice the WARNING sign 

 

Run as fast as you can, 

A wrecking ball is chasing you 

Ready to destroy your life as you know it 

 

While she falls in love,  

For him ,you’re just the next victim waiting in line 

A getaway car in his empty life,  

Alcohol, drugs and mindless lust 

 

When he says “I love you” 

He never mean it 

It's just part of his twisted game, 

His game of giving love 

And a few seconds later, take it away 

 

The immeasurable speed will make you fly, feel alive 

Your heart skipping like a rock in the water  

Nothing but the preludium of an irrevocable, macabre, upcoming tragic
ending

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As Ink Is My Witness

Your cold hand tries to take mine 

Big screen is my witness  

But he only tries 

After a long time, my body is only mine 

 

I don’t owe you nothing 

My arms, my legs, my mind, my will 

For you, just expectations to fulfil 

Like dead, not feeling any thrill 

 

More than a name in your scoreboard 

Control of the game is on me  

I’ve got other places to be 

And paths that lead me to the woman I want to reach 

 

Mrs Dalloway showed me the way 

Mrs. Sexton gave me a voice 

Didion’s pen taught me to play it as it lays 

But I only let one man to borrow my ink

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Poem 6

The sound of harmonica, inminent regression 

Every curl of his hair moves you  

Moves a tireless mind thirst for change 

 

The sharpness in every guitar cord takes me back there  

Asking you to open up to me, no way to keep insisting  

When all I really want to do is baby, be friends with you

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Xiv

My poems used to rhyme before you 

Now they don’t  

 

Gifted hands, sharp words 

Making the suffering my master 

 

Green eyes like branches on Christmas tree 

They can look like the honey you put in your tea 

 

Every line in your body has still her name in it 

The name of the poet who came before me 

 

But I keep wondering where my rhyme is 

My red haired muse’ s gone and took it with him  

 

I found instead every line, every stanza... 

When I don’t need them anymore  

Cause I along with my refined  British accent learned in school 

can finally say out loud: Poetry is you

Copyright © Julia Montero | Year Posted 2020


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