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Author: MORA, PAT Matches Found: 83 Mora, Pat Poet's Biography 83 poems available by this author A CHILD, A CHILD Poem Text First Line: You held your breath Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans A RIVER OF WOMEN Poem Text Subject(s): Women AGIO NERO Poem Text First Line: Finding a spring, a holy act Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AGUA NEGRA Poem Text First Line: I see her shadow Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans ANOTHER BROWN MAN Poem Text First Line: Startling as blood Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans AURELIA: MOON JELLIES Poem Text First Line: Without brain or eye or heart Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans BAILANDO Poem Text First Line: Bailando / I will remember you dancing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers BALLENA Poem Text First Line: Are you terrified of drowning Last Line: Where it can't breathe Subject(s): Drowning BORDER TOWN: 1938 Poem Text First Line: She counts cement tracks Subject(s): Schools; Chicanos; Segregation; Students; Mexican Americans BRAIDED Poem Text First Line: Rain, rattle of shells Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans CLEVER TWIST Poem Text First Line: The best revenge is Subject(s): Revenge COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS Poem Text First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Mexican Americans; Virgin Mary CONSEJOS DE NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE: COUNSEL FROM VIRGIN Poem Text First Line: You seem surprised that I've appeared Last Line: Immaculate and otherwise, happen. He knelt, full of me Subject(s): Chicanos; Goddesses & Gods; Mexican Americans CROSSROAD Poem Text First Line: Come to me Subject(s): Love CUENTISTA: STORY-TELLER Poem Text First Line: She carries a green river in her arms Last Line: And sip – from her own arms Subject(s): Rivers DEPRESSION DAYS (1) Poem Text First Line: He buys the dark Subject(s): Chicanos; Depressions, Economic; Mexican Americans DEPRESSION DAYS (2) Poem Text First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life DOMINICAN GOLD Poem Text First Line: They wade into the river Last Line: Fill with a loud light Variant Title(s): Gold Subject(s): Gold DOUBTS Poem Text First Line: What if guys think I can't kiss because I can think? Subject(s): Self-doubt; Kisses EL ESPIRITU SANTO Poem Text First Line: The priest says, the wind, like ours, whirled Last Line: Stir in our hearts the fire of love Subject(s): Saints EL RIO GRANDE Poem Text First Line: Maybe la llorona is el rio grande Subject(s): Chicanos; Rio Grande River; Mexican Americans EL SANTO NINO DE ATOCHA Poem Text First Line: My neighbor says she's very sorry Subject(s): Saints ELENA Poem Text First Line: My spanish isn't enough Last Line: When my children need my help Subject(s): Chicanos; Children; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations FEEDING THE WINDS Poem Text First Line: Stories pass like genes through families Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans FENCES Poem Text First Line: Mouths full of laughter Subject(s): Seashore; Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Beach; Coast; Shore; Work; Workers; Caste FIRST LOVE Poem Text First Line: Her brown eyes circle Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FOR GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Poem Text First Line: I want / to walk Subject(s): O'keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) GENTLE COMMUNION Poem Text First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move Last Line: Our own private green honey Subject(s): Language; Memory; Spirituality; Words; Vocabulary HERE COME THE MUSICIANS Poem Text Last Line: Cecilia, que pasa? What is this? Subject(s): Family Life I CAN DANCE Poem Text Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers ILLEGAL ALIEN Poem Text First Line: Socorro, you free me Subject(s): Aliens; Extraterrestrials IMMIGRANTS Poem Text First Line: Wrap their babies in the american flag Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations IN THE BLOOD Poem Text First Line: The brown-eyed child Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing & Dancers; Children; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Childhood IT MAY BE DANGEROUS Poem Text First Line: No sound. The child watches us Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans LA DULCERIA Poem Text First Line: Released into the season Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans LA MIGRA Poem Text First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand / get ready Subject(s): Mexican Border; United States – Immigration & Emigration LA MUERTE Poem Text First Line: You don't belong, fea dona sebastiana Subject(s): Skeletons; Ash Wednesday LA SAGRADA FAMILIA Poem Text First Line: We are like butterflies Subject(s): Saints LEGAL ALIEN Poem Text First Line: Bi-lingual, bi-cultural Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans LLANTOS DE LA LLORONA: WARNINGS FROM THE WAILER Poem Text First Line: Every family has one Last Line: Oye: never underestimate the power of the voice Subject(s): Chicanos; Legends, Mexican; Mexican Americans LOSS OF CONTROL Poem Text First Line: For me it was an adventure Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives MAESTRO Poem Text First Line: He hears her Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mothers MALINCHE'S TIPS: PIQUE FROM MEXICO'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: My face isn't red Last Line: Sound familiar? Subject(s): Mexico; Ancestors & Ancestry; Mothers MANGOS Y LIMONES (1) Poem Text First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Hispanic Americans' Mothers Daughters; Women MAYBE Poem Text First Line: If I stretch myself tall Subject(s): Self-criticism MIRRORS Poem Text First Line: Grandma makes me mad Subject(s): Grandparents; Beauty; Self-doubt; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers MOUTHFULS OF FLAVORS Poem Text Last Line: With friends and family Subject(s): Food & Eating NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ANUNCIACION Poem Text First Line: Rejoice! The angel gabriel said Subject(s): Saints ODE TO PIZZA Poem Text First Line: Yeast pillow Subject(s): Pizza OFRENDA FOR LOBO Poem Text First Line: Come, fierce guardian angel Last Line: You, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night Subject(s): Chicanos; Aunts; Ancestors & Ancestry; All Souls' Day; Mexican Americans ONE POTATO Poem Text First Line: She buys a potato Subject(s): Food Habits; Potatoes ORACION A LOS SANTOS Poem Text First Line: At sixteen I began to pray to you, old friends Subject(s): Saints PERUVIAN CHILD Poem Text First Line: Still in the middle of my path is the child Last Line: Not to hold her, the child in our arms Subject(s): Peru; Children PESCADOTE Poem Text First Line: What think you, old fish Last Line: Roots crawling in your damp crevices Subject(s): Chicanos REVENGE X 3 Poem Text First Line: I slipped a note to three Subject(s): Love Letters. Deception SAINT PASCAL BAYLON / SAN PASCUAL BAILON Poem Text First Line: San pascual pastorcito Last Line: And also your culinary trickery Subject(s): Saints; Cooking & Cooks; Language SAINT RITA / SANTA RITA Poem Text First Line: Wind, rain, fog this morning Last Line: So from within, their holy spirit will shine Subject(s): Saints; Women – Abused; Shame SAN JOSE Poem Text First Line: I wonder if fathers above congregate Subject(s): Saints SAN MARTIN DE PORRES Poem Text First Line: Can I sing you, brother martin Last Line: That hold our fragrant selves within Subject(s): Martin De Porres Velazquez, Saint (1579-1639) SAN YSIDRO LABRADOR Poem Text First Line: May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request Last Line: This night, and at our death, en paz may we rest Subject(s): Farm Life; Isidore The Laborer (Or, Farmer), Saint (1070-1130) SANTA MARIA MAGDALENA Poem Text First Line: Her sins, which are many are forgiven Last Line: Prim critics in our pompous monotone? Subject(s): Mary Magdalen SANTA TERESA DE AVILA Poem Text First Line: If I had not been so wicked Last Line: Forever, ever and ever Subject(s): Teresa, Saint (1515-1582) SENORA X NO MORE Poem Text First Line: Straight as a nun I sit Last Line: I carve my crooked name, / my name Subject(s): Nuns SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND Poem Text First Line: First lie in it Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SONRISAS Poem Text First Line: I live in a doorway Subject(s): Mexican-american Families; Morning SPANISH Poem Text First Line: My mom worried that I was sick Subject(s): Mexican-american Families; Sickness; Illness TALL WOMAN WALKING Poem Text First Line: The sun stares Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TEENAGERS Poem Text First Line: One day they disappear Subject(s): Loss THE DESERT IS MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: I say feed me Variant Title(s): Mi Madre Subject(s): Deserts; Mothers THE EYE OF TEXAS Poem Text First Line: Santa maria, madre mia, your sparrows tugged Subject(s): Chicanos; Texas THE LOVING STRIP Poem Text First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE LURE Poem Text First Line: The octopus on the platter moved Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans THE SHADOW Poem Text First Line: Tapping. On the window an insistent Last Line: Those dark, kindly creatures, the summer my father died Subject(s): Shadows; Mexican Americans THE SYSTEM Poem Text First Line: Mama, night is never pure Last Line: Cement, thousands we never hear Subject(s): Night THE VISITATION / LA VISITACION Poem Text First Line: Our stomachs bumped Last Line: To joy, to sharing / this life Subject(s): Saints; Mary, Mother Of Jesus THE WEIGHT OF A LIFE Poem Text First Line: The darting comet streaks in Subject(s): Chicanos; Mexican Americans TIGUA ELDER Poem Text First Line: How do I tell my children Last Line: There is forgetting in my own true name Subject(s): Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage TOMAS RIVERA Poem Text First Line: They knew so much, his hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Education; Mexican Americans TZIMIN CHAAK Poem Text First Line: Rise, sweet horse, gather your resting bones Last Line: You and I, gallop wild with the wind Subject(s): Mexico; Horses; Cortes, Hernando (1485-1547) UNIVERSITY AVENUE Poem Text First Line: We are the first Subject(s): Universities & College; Mexican-american Families UNNATURAL SPEECH Poem Text First Line: The game has changed Subject(s): Chicanos; English Language; Mexican Americans WEIRD Poem Text First Line: I start to write an e-mail but Subject(s): Emails WITNESS Poem Text First Line: She gathers quiet around her Last Line: The truths we know Subject(s): Women; Truth |
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