Hope Spanish Poems

un día vendrá
Cuando les digo a todos
El nombre por el que todos se apresuraron
ser tan de gran utilidad

solo espera ese momento
Siempre que hay tiempo conmigo
El...

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They stood in the bright Andalucian sunlight
The noble sunflowers with stance upright
Massed yellow ranks portray solidarity
Faces and heights display uniformity

Unquestioning loyalty to the hot sun
First...

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 Unasked questions hide truths from you
Asking them offers hope
Why did the East long shun Europe
Until post - '92 [1492]...

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Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the...

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I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between...

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My favorite high school teacher was Miss Constance Uren
You heard me right the first time so don't ask her name again
At first the kids were...

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In nineteen eighteen there was an outbreak of flu
Caused little concern, only affected a few
But it returned with a vengeance later that year
And the world...

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It’s thirteen thousand miles from Boston to
San Diego around  far Cape Horn’s way.
Ship needs to sail to that distant quay.
The Cape is a hard...

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Pops when you was first diagnosed I was in disbelief,
The cancer that they found made it hard to breathe.
An endless beacon of strength kept you...

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Algo Nuevo

Como un bello horizonte comienza un nuevo día y una nueva vida
Una puerta se cierra y la otra la tienes que abrir
Como decía la...

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Cierro los ojos y los abro otra vez
Ahí, ahí esta mi Castillo.
Como en los cuentos de hadas,
Quiero ser Julieta pero me siento como Dulcinea.
Las cimas...

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Just I,

maybe a little  different ,but really not shy,

biography  I imagined of an ordinary guy,

not scary,

drop by,

same old story from the same old...

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~Dreaming~
(Spanish Huitain)


Dreaming the impossible not a crime
You can do it don't make it hard
Many mountains there are to climb
But it is your choice you hold...

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I met a Spanish Queen the other day
With jet black hair and eyes of coal
Her smile glistened in the mornings ray

She was as lovely as...

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BELTAINE (English and 
Spanish Translation)
If I could gather for you, flowers fair,
the first of summer, slip them in your hair,
to light your face, the tremble...

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