Tag: poetry
member name: Edwin V.
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April 30, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
TERRORISM
When equality and justice
spread around the world
like fires in California .
When education and freedom
hit the world
like hurricanes . . .
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August 03, 2008 10:52 PM EDT --
IT WILL TAKE A LIFETIME
It only take seconds
to mold your image in my mind.
It take minutes to sculpt your body
to imagine your hair touching my lips.
It is . . .
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August 14, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
WHILE CLEANING MY OFFICE, I FOUND A COUPLE LETTERS AND POEMS I DEDICATED TO MYSELF A LONG TIME AGO. HERE IS ONE OF THEM.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU DEDICATED SOMETHING . . .
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January 29, 2008 11:11 PM EST --
IF I DON'T SEE YOU ANYMORE
The time has passed
every minute
every hour
is a drop of blood
evaporating from my heart
like a mist from my mouth.
My eyes haven't . . .
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April 30, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
I FORGOT TO MENTION
A couple leaves the theater holding hands
making plans
walking to a restaurant to have dinner
and celebrate their first year anniversary. . . .
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August 12, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
BROTHER
Brother we are the same blood
we even look alike.
Our parents loved us and raised us in the same conditions
still, we drifted apart somewhere in time.
I knew . . .
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August 15, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
THE TATTOO
You are the talent
I am the flesh.
Prick my skin
inflict my body with pain
stain my skin for the rest of my life.
In my arms, your . . .
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July 30, 2008 12:29 AM EDT --
TO MY MOTHER
Mother,
my saint.
Finally I found the words to express my love,
my respect and admiration for you.
Finally, I can express these feelings
of a son,
of a man.
Feelings . . .
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May 04, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
Dear friend of Edwin Vásquez ,
We are proud to announce the upcoming release of Edwin Vásquez's new book Sensibility: Poems in Free Verse !
About the book: In this second book, the author . . .
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January 23, 2008 09:54 AM EST --
I WAITED A WHILE
Dear daughter Emily:
there are so many great feelings,
so many wonderful moments
bubbling inside my heart,
inside this forgetful memory
that makes my life worth living . . .
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August 03, 2008 11:05 PM EDT --
OVERRIDE FEELINGS
Incomparable moments
remembering without processing
without thinking.
The music waves hit the walls
of this empty file
of this empty heart.
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July 30, 2008 12:44 AM EDT --
GENERAL ELECTIONS
Like frantic fish,
each candidate jumps
as high as their might
to capture the attention of the masses
in the black sea,
in the vast ocean
of insecurities.
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August 12, 2008 10:40 PM EDT --
"INSPIRATION OVER A CUP OF COFFEE"
My mind is alert, my heart melancholic
mixed emotions that evaporate
with the steam of my fresh cup of coffee
in search of the evasive . . .
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October 11, 2006 11:13 PM EDT --
WHEN I SEE YOU
Permanent in my memory
is your image,
encrypted
impossible
to erase.
You hunt me down
every time the sky becomes dark,
every time I am alone
in the solitude of the night. . . .
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October 11, 2006 11:19 PM EDT --
DOBLE SHOT
My boring morning
is now exiting and bright.
Fresh and cool
relaxed and in control
she walks by me
like royalty.
She is a tall beauty
a white rose
dressed in red
I . . .
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October 11, 2006 11:23 PM EDT --
THE WHITE JACKET
His imagination is wild
free of inhibitions
without frontiers
or restrictions.
His mind is an open universe
where everything is possible
and nothing is what it seems.
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January 27, 2008 08:47 PM EST --
MY BODY
I am dragging ..........It
carrying ..................It
Three steps behind
my shadow
patiently waits for me.
One of those days
where everything normal
doesn't exist. . . .
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