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Best Latin America Poems


The Day the World Died
The day the world died!


Have you ever wondered why tribes and peoples from ancient times, until now have a day to remember and honor the dead?  
There are popular festivals the world over, where people visit the graves of loved ones typically on November...

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Categories: latin america, bible, death, earth, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and War
You can feel it spinning
                                fast
the Chinese, Japanese, American and European junk
orbiting at several...

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Categories: latin america, culture, environment, farm, future,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Immigration
I like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration,
Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world.
That's a new idea to her.
Gathering the neighborhood like family.
The men discuss sterilizing welfare mothers. I say You're working
      around the edges,
humanity has exceeded the carrying...

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Categories: latin america, america, baseball, city, immigration,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Freedom of the Press
ABOUT   THE   PRESS


The media, the press was established as an institution to fight for humanity and human right as well. To serve as a mediator between the people underground and the so called ruling class, thus between those at top and...

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Categories: latin america, freedom, , western,
Form: Ballad
Mail Runners On the Inca Trail
Friends , while reading the History of the Incas , I came across the wonderous story of their 
mail runners , the 'chasquis' ! Kindly read their story !

THE MAIL RUNNERS - ON THE INCA TRAIL !
        ...

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© Raj Nandy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: latin america, history
Form: Verse
Premium Member Is the World Insane
(A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE 21ST CENTURY CIVILIZATION)  


This story goes on to throw light on the 21st century civilization. And in that political era, the religious and political atrocities, which ended up as the back bone of social injustice, inequalities, war crimes against...

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Categories: latin america, discrimination, , western,
Form: Alliteration



Good Night Fidel Castro
Adieu Fidel Castrol! Adieu Castro!
What a life, What an adventure!
The west with its sophisticated propaganda
could not kill you. In your prime they sought to 
assassinate you, yet the world counted on you!
you were the evil they made us believed you were, yet Cuba had the...

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Categories: latin america, death,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Force That Placed Us Here Cannot Be Trusted
At dinner, Zach asks
about our nation's history, wars.
I say We're taking on everyone, one at a time.

First Britain, then Britain again: "He was the surly English pluck, and
      there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will...

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Categories: latin america, america, death, fire, history,
Form: Verse
As the Vultures Gather To Suck Beautiful Venezuela Dry
now that Chavez is dead,
the american oil companies
chomping at the bit
begin to salivate & lick their lips,
seething
with the foam
of potent country-gutting
rabies---
for while he was alive,
Venezuela was one of the only
countries left, 
who resisted the empire’s attempts to
penetrate it & whore it out to the
highest capitalist...

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Categories: latin america, life,
Form: Free verse
Down and Out In Saigon
Down and Out in Saigon

Southeast Asia, and Mexico
 has always attracted 
A certain type of westerner
The down and out 

On a down word spiral
Why?
Relatively cheap to live
Lots of part-time gigs

Teaching English
Or other things
Cheap Booze, drugs, sex
Readily available


Places to stay
Dirt cheap
And no one needs 
To sleep...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: latin america, america, lost, , western,
Form: Quatrain
I Only Speak Second Rate Spanish
I    ONLY    SPEAK   SECOND-RATE   SPANISH





I didn’t say it then, but I can say it now -
I can say many things in many languages, and how!
English, Russian, French and the lovely Spanish tongue.
First one  I...

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Categories: latin america, funny
Form: Couplet
A Night of Romance
A night for Romance 

 Wes at on an upturned boat of the type of “the old man and the sea.”
by Ernest Hemingway used, the night had all the ingredients needed
for romance, full moon and glittering stars on blue velvet.
She gave herself to me, how...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: latin america, beautiful, betrayal, birthday, blue,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Through My Crystal Ball Darkly
Europe won't survive a cold winter
  Israel's and Saudi's ties to us grow thinner
Latin America now under communism's spell
  Iran, India, Turkey among Russia's clientele

Mr. Putin's grand strategy now nearly in place
  Come say a prayer for the human race
Ukraine can't hold...

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Categories: latin america, anxiety, usa, violence, war,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Do Most People Live In Poor Countries
1: Which region of the globe has the lowest standard of living?

a. the Middle East.
b. sub-Saharan Africa
c. Asia.
d. Latin America.

2: Which of the following is not a country in the Third World?

a. Latin America
b. Asia.
c. Africa.
d. Australia.

3: What proportion of the world's population lives in...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: latin america, analogy, world,
Form: List
Premium Member Who Loves America
WHO LOVES AMERICA
Once upon a good time, not so very long ago.
There was America, America the dream God used to know.
Where went America that all the world loved so
Once upon a time not so very long ago,
Where went America,the one the world loved so?

Who loves...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: latin america, black african american, dedication,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things