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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PUERTO RICANS - NEW YORK CITY Matches Found: 90 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMBITIOUS RAINS OF MOIST SEPTEMBER, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The flowered illusion %pano-ramas Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Desire; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Singing And Singers AMERICA, by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Poem Source First Line: Puerto rico, you lovely island Last Line: Everyone there will have moved here Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City AMERICAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We gave birth to a new generation Last Line: Word, american, america! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ANNUNCIATIONS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Robbed of titian at the national gallery Last Line: Forgive me, forgive me-I am not without sin Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ARAB, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Allah be praised Last Line: Victory, %your %name! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City AT MY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, a free-thinker, who Last Line: Merge-when I kiss him it is as if %I were kissing myself goodbye Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BLACK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Full moonlight in central park Last Line: Come %song, %song, %song! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BODA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: The boda gathering modeling a wide display Last Line: Atlar' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BOOK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: The day arrived, %published book date Last Line: Allowed myself to call me %beautiful Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BORICUA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We are a people Last Line: Lovers who love %to love respect Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BOYHOOD, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Behind our puerto rican santurce Last Line: We kept the secret Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City BRAVA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: They kept on telling me Last Line: Is full of premature short- %comings Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CAFE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Dry %roasted %out %of %sun Last Line: Light %mmmm %cafe %sabor Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CANTE JONDO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Segovia says lorca was killed Last Line: Homosexuals die violent deaths, segovia %says, playing a bach fugue on his guitar Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CHINESE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: All %those %fa %ces Last Line: Age %to %the %wise Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CHORNA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Tembandumba, now an elder Last Line: Time and time and time and time again! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City COMMONWEALTH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: No, not yet, no, not yet Last Line: Options, maybe then, hope Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City COMMONWEALTH. COMMON POVERTY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A visitor comes from hungary as from outer space Last Line: We, their future, have become what they most feared Variant Title(s): Commonwealth, Common Povert Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CONFIANZUDA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She touched me Last Line: Parted and waiting %hour after dumb hour %while we in twilight %mourned Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City COPING SKILLS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I said how sad it was Last Line: I remember nothing Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CRAQUEAO, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Four and one half billion Last Line: Seguro, y tu craqueao!' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CRIOLLO STORY, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I was drunk, sunday morning Last Line: As we had serenaded the moon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City CRY UNCLE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a revolutionary Last Line: There's no one left to justify %his failure, to render his lifelong mission holy Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City DANCING, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I'll go out dancing Last Line: We danced %the night %away Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City DIVORCE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On saturdays her grandmother Last Line: Whatever she has done, hoping %they'll forget that she must go Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City DON LUIS A. FERRE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: There were no paintings Last Line: One of his dreams had said, 'yes' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ENCHULA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Unfortunately, my new loves are Last Line: Me tiene la vida enchula Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ENGLISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: So %exquisite %general %overtones Last Line: Growth %of %the %world Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ESQUINA DUDE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I like and dislike, like the good Last Line: You know exactly what I mean, gracias Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes when I witness the blindness of faith Last Line: When I least expect it, stuns me %with a right hook to the eye of reason Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City FIELD DAY, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The red-tailed hawk on the meadow by Last Line: Can snare the senses, stir a woman's %envy, a man's unswerving thirst Subject(s): Homes, Historic; Kansas City, Missouri; Puerto Ricans - New York City FIRE, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fire broke out in 1b, the garden Last Line: But my grandmother and I were ready- %as ready as we would ever be Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 1, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brown towhee nudges us awake with its song Last Line: Still lazy from sleep. Feel %drafts from an open door glaze %my skin with the scent of pinon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 2, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am in an adobe womb about to be born Last Line: Worship its bark, pray at its roots: %it yields words Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 3, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Light makes fools of us Last Line: Only to catch a glimpse of myself %in a shiny car fender %asclown Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 4, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night I am in my rights. Days Last Line: I am condemned to recreate %the cursive shadows of the sun, coaxing thought %across the bleached pul Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 5, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday afternoon the mountains Last Line: Time to take stock, put it all together- %sandhya on sandia-ya es dia Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GLIMPSES OF LIGHT: 6, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From this room I can see the world Last Line: My life, long a solar eclipse, %is destined for the good side of the moon Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GRAFFITERS, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: In the near %distant future Last Line: Remembered for %whatever else %emerged' Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GRAFFITO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I had my first flying dream Last Line: Last night described his first kill, %his first feast of dove Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City GREEK, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Looking to find modern mythology Last Line: Twenty-four hours a day %in new york Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City HE 2-104: A TRUE PLANETARY NEBULA IN THE MAKING, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the universal clock, sagan tells us Last Line: Blaze as one across the southern skies- %no longer crab but butterfly Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City IN THE DARK BACKWARD, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How is it I was not raised Last Line: Children, like windswept echoes from %a ghost ship, could free my grief? Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City INTELLECTUAL, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: So historically total Last Line: And be dead %from the start Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City IRISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: March song %bobby sands irish land Last Line: To free ireland Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ISLANDIS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: This is the taste of the Last Line: Wearing crowns of %bird gone feathers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel ITALIAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Young dude %is old dude Last Line: So always always sing %please, blue eyes Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JAMAICAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Reach their guts into the caribbean Last Line: Good, yeah, real good! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JAPANESE, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: He was ten years old in 1942 Last Line: Had he thought the japanese %had won the war Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JEWISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: We stand the pain of time Last Line: But never, never, again Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City JIBARO, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: End of spring harvest Last Line: And then, the song, %cancion Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LATCHKEY KID, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of butterscotch caramels Last Line: She turns on the light %it casts a shadow across her life Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEARNING MY NAME, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We have a dialogue, this tree and I Last Line: I heard my name Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 1, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a good old-fashioned Last Line: Gold for the holy faith, %gold for the glory of spain Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 2, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the mines Last Line: Into themselves like secrets %whispered only in the safety %of brown arms Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LEGEND OF THE FLAMBOYAN: 3, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A wrecked vessel washed ashore Last Line: Splashes of blood- %blooming all over the island Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LETTERS FROM MY SISTER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mi querida hermanita, she'd begin Last Line: The same nose, the same sad eyes, %the same big smiles Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City LICENCIADO DON PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Like the year eighteen ninety-eight Last Line: Forever imbedded in our souls Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City M'IJA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I've been dying to call you m'ija Last Line: A ti todo, para eso somos amigas Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MALCRIADA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Te voy a dar una paliza, muchacha Last Line: Into his vest pocket, and gives me %two new pennies for an eskimo pie Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MESA BLANCA (1), by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: If I were writing on rock Last Line: To lick the invisible %generations Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Language; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOVING PICTURES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I see in movie stills Last Line: A close-up of the hand remains. %hard. Seamed. Like a mannequin's Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY FATHER, ON THE OTHER HAND, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father, on the other hand, did Last Line: From the deep. Yet I remain curiously %inviolate: he cannot pierce my heart Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY LIFE AS A BOOK OF FICTION, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my aunt will die the secrets Last Line: With errors, omissions, dangerous %legends and, before long,addenda- %left to me, a total stranger Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City MY MOTHER CUNNING, YET INNOCENT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not knowing then, no, not yet knowing - %trusting her to be mine forever Variant Title(s): My Mother Cunning Yet Innocen Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City NEW YORK CITY MIRA MIRA BLUES, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the freeway you can almost Last Line: A shroud of down, stilling, if only %for a moment, the island's screams Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City NUYORICAN LAMENT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: San juan you're not for me Last Line: Listening for a song- %a wisp of song- %that begs deep in my heart Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City ORPHANS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my father died, leaving me Last Line: We thrive on luck, she said, %there is no father's love in that Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City OTHER ISLAND, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, listen, for a moment! Listen Last Line: And I, bare and barely stirring, %in this new york city taxi heading west Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City OUT OF BOUNDS IN KANSAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live in a treehouse Last Line: From our high perch, had not the ocean %beckoned to him-as it does me-to come home Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PANA, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I was in jail, brother. Jail, brother Last Line: You know why, bro, porque %ese tipo es mi pana Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City POLITICAL, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: I'm pushed, I'm being pushed, pushed Last Line: And I made a citizen's arrest Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City POPULAR, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Limbo %limping in circles Last Line: Man carousel, turning like the %old man carousel Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PORTO RICO, by GEORGE E. BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, the soft blue waves of the southern sea Last Line: That is what it seems to be. Subject(s): Freedom; Islands; Puerto Ricans - New York City; South Sea Islands; Liberty PRACTITIONER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was my grandfather who fed me Last Line: My grandmother soothed me, but it was %my grandfather who kept me alive Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PRAYER, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Padre nuesto Last Line: The inner light eternal- %ly dimmed like %a wasted bulb %in the spirit's %socket %ah men Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City PSYCHOMACHIA, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old woman, you took so long in dying Last Line: To meet on that unlabeled plain: I %to cradle you, you to teach me pain Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City REVOLUTIONARY, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: It %is %no %myth Last Line: Love %knows %no %compromise Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City RUSSIAN, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: She scraped the church floor Last Line: She polished fourteen carat chalices Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants SAILOR SUIT, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She tells him how when she is hurt Last Line: He tells her she can throw away %her sailor suit forever Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 1. MONTE DE LAS PIEDRAS ROSAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a pinon tree outside Last Line: The whole tree shuddered %and, a breath later, it is bare Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 2. LOS ALAMOS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why the name? Not a poplar in sight Last Line: They do not wave as we drive by Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 3. PROMESAS, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To el santuario de chimayo Last Line: The light outside is blinding Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 4. CHIMAYO, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dog ambles across the empty dusty road Last Line: I am the bear that comes at nightfall %to greet the new moon%soy india, soy mexicana %soy mujer %soy Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Puerto Ricans - New York City SANTA FE JOURNEY: 5. RETURN TO THE CITY OF HOLY FAITH, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Signs back to santa fe are incongruous Last Line: Tucked resolutely beneath his arm- %defying windmills, imperialism, death. Away! Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City SPANISH, by TATO LAVIERA Poem Source First Line: Your language outlives your world power Last Line: I'm gonna fight for you, I love you, spanish, %I'm your humble son Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City VISITING DAY AT SCHOOL, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is sitting on a swing Last Line: I want to go to her, claim her, %but there is no room for me, no room Subject(s): Puerto Ricans - New York City YJUANAS, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: There's not an iguana that isn't drawn up Last Line: A place that can never be told in words Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Reptiles |
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