Best Puerto Rican Poems

Slice that ripe green Avocado
Love it with my rice and beans
Oh it looks so ripe and yellow
Slice it like a tangerine

Let's make love under La Palma
Lay out our blanket on the clean
Luquillo sand - allow the Puerto Rican 
Sun to bath us with its warm...

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Faces smiling, nodding politely 
At words they don't seem 
To understand,

Show me pictures,
Showing the richness of
A faraway distant land,

Multicoloured motor cars,
Brown apartments 
Rising high in Puerto Rican skies....

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The museum had a festive treat – 
A Puerto Rican band,
With drums and one maraca, 
Beats that we could understand.

The leader on the primo* drum
Explained about their style
And the only female taught a dance;
In just a little while…

We visitors all left our seats
And, following her...

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Written By:  D. Collins 5/22/24



 My Boom-Box played this beautiful collab.
 Two blood brothers rapping like we never had.
 Talent is talent, and it ain't my fault.
They mastered the 187 on an undercover cop.



An NWA remix with a Puerto Rican twist.
A touch of Heavy...

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