Posted in american, culture, latino, miscellaneous, poetry, spanglish, writing, tagged identity, Latino american, latino poetry, lord's prayer, personal identity, poems, poems about the self, poetry, political poetry, religious, spanglish on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perdoname
as I tell this
because it is remembered
in more than one language
slipping between tongues
twisted by root meanings
Padre nuestro,
que estas en el cielo
how do I decide
where the truth
la verdad
is when I rely on memories
spoken in broken Spanglish?
Santificado sea su nobre.
Whole conversations
that I’ve had [...]
Posted in american, culture, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged american writing, father and son, father-son poetry, Latino american, latino poetry, poem, poetry, relationship poetry on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
today the words
are not cooperating
it is like they are reverting
to their feral state
in my mind
they bite at their leashes
gnaw off their limbs
until they have chewed themselves free
of my memories
and run off into the darkness to hide
and wait in ambush until
i go hunting for them again
it has been like this lately
i have been pulling out old
photographs as evidence [...]
Posted in american, miscellaneous, new, strange, tagged art, collage, digital art, electronic culture, folk art, Latino american, latino art, mixed media collage, political art, protest art, spanglish on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2008. All rights reserved.
Posted in american, drawing, latino, line art, miscellaneous, new, strange, tagged art, drawing, henry toromoreno, Latino american, latino art, line art, line drawing, mayan, Mayan art influence, modern culture, modern myth glyphs, original art, political art on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Copyright © henry toromoreno, 2008. All rights reserved.
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged henry toromoreno, job poems, Latino american, latino poetry, poems, poems about students, poetry, student teacher poems, teacher poems, teacher poetry on October 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
A hundred times a day
they come at me
exotic particles from
extra dimensions
from places I can’t imagine
where the gravity
of a mother’s laughter
doesn’t exist
in universes
where there are
no points of light
no bursting celebrations
against the darkness
but only constellations
of sorrow and bad choices
galaxies where black holes
are the safest place to be
far from [...]
Posted in american, latino, new, writing, tagged Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day, ethnic, identity, latino, Latino american, personal essay, political essay on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Growing up, the Columbus Day holiday was always a bit of a mystery to me. I was torn between what I was learning in school and what I was hearing at home. In the classrooms of PS 299 in Brooklyn, we learned that, “in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We read about how he [...]
