para Lupe Ontiveros
Now that she is a vieja
with dyed blonde hair
and not a threat to any gringa’s
beauty when she steps into
the frame of someone else’s fame,
you get to know her nombre, hombre.
Lupe Ontiveros
does not roll off your tongue
and she paints no picture
in your mind because
you never knew she
was acting like a star.
You never went to [...]
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Maid in Hollywood
Posted in culture, latino, new, poetry, spanglish, writing, tagged Hispanic Heritage poetry, Hollywood Poetry, latino poetry, Lupe Ontiveros, poems, poems about teaching, poetry, poetry on pop culture, political poetry on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Lord’s Prayer: broken by spoken Spanglish
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 [...]
the words escape me
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 [...]
Anniversary Poem
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged anniversary poem, blogging poetry, latino poetry, poems about the self, poetry on December 4, 2008 | 9 Comments »
One year.
One hundred and nine posts.
Almost ten thousand hits.
I sent out e-mails to everyone I know.
But very few ever noticed.
The ones that matter did, do
and continue to visit.
Strangers from everywhere found me
let me find them –
we drew a circle around us
became voices without bodies
connected by a longing
to say, share, be.
I didn’t [...]
Why Oscar lives in Omaha
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged american writing, father and son, father-son poetry, latino poetry, Nebraska, Nebraska law, new poetry, parent-child, parenting poetry, poems, poetry, Safe Haven Law, troubled children, troubled teens on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No one in the state house intended this
and Oscar had never heard of Nebraska
before he was heading there with his father
who seemed to talk
the whole way
about how he had tried
to make Oscar understand
how awful his own childhood had been
repeating how he had left everything behind
to come to New York
to make money
but [...]
drive time radio
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged Boston Radio, drive time radio, Jay Severin, Jimmy Severino, latino poetry, New England poetry, poetry, political poetry, political writing, racism on radio, Talk radio, WTKK on November 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The guy on the radio is
spitting into the airwaves
and I can smell his fear
as I drive home from work.
Who in the world are you
dying to speak to, who only
speaks Spanish,
he asks, but he’s no racist.
He can’t believe what’s
happening to his country
cannot stand the idea
of programs like affirmative action.
Unless I need my pool cleaned
or need to [...]
the science of supersition
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged poetry, poems, teacher poetry, latino poetry, teacher poems, funny poems, new poetry, poems about students, student teacher poems, science poetry, large hadron collider on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the same day
that the Large Hadron Collider
was turned on to peel away
the secrets of the universe
by smashing circling atoms
at near absolute zero
at nearly the speed of light
into each other
I had to listen to someone
tell me how Nostradamus
had predicted that this
day would come.
I explained that [...]
colliding into youth
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 [...]
in the mix of the mortar
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged 9/11, decline of Rome, henry toromoreno, latino poetry, poems, poetry, protest poetry, September 11 poetry, teacher poems, worker poetry on October 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There is more blood in the Pyramid at Cheops
Than there is in the Great Wall of China.
There is more blood in the Great Wall of China
Than there is in the Roman Coliseum.
There was lots of blood in the Roman Coliseum.
There is more blood in the Roman Coliseum
Than there is the Panama Canal.
[...]
for fear of copyright infringement
Posted in american, latino, new, poetry, writing, tagged copyright, henry toromoreno, latino poetry, poetry, poetry about writing on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
for fear of copyright infringement
i can no longer read
anything that might be good
i know my best ideas are stolen
and the lesser ones are poor imitations
or hateful versions of something
someone else created
imagine how it hurts for me to know
that i must abandon all those
words i’ve tried so hard arranging
i’ve seen so many times the names
of streets [...]
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