tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218705652325154302024-03-13T09:56:11.874-07:00Into The Sixth WorldAlma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-8381666176929885062018-03-20T11:57:00.001-07:002018-03-21T13:30:37.210-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">SPRING</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Even orchids belong in Paradise</span>..."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">*From The Clarifier altar space, created by </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">citizens and artists in Lyons, Colorado, after</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a huge flood that destroyed over 200 homes-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I found these words etched in stained glass.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">You arrive newly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Born and so ancient,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You dazzle me with</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fertility and wisdom,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">New life, the dead</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Risen to dance, make</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Love again, fragile</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Fern, ripening roots, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Brittle bones, the Sprit rises</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To meet each unknown</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Beauty, your cloak</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Grazing earth releases,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Each newborn ancient</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Step <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><i>listen </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Song First</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Spring,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She begins to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sing, <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">orchid laughter</span>,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Do you </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">First song</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ever sung</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When we were</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;">Orchids </span><span style="font-size: large;">that</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Spring? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">March 20, 2018</span><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;">FELIZ PRIMAVERA </span><br />
<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-75248575787124710412016-05-23T12:16:00.002-07:002016-05-23T12:16:48.607-07:00<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">KARMA</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">*To George Zimmerman, who sold the gun that murdered Trayvon Martin at a high price, as karma has a high price. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">The life you took, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">I send it back to </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you, his high school</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">prom, dreams of</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">university, travel,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">lovers, wife, all of</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his children, all of</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his laughter/joy,</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his grief/tears,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">the son he was,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">the father, grandfather,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">he would become,</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you, George Zimmerman,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">took his hummingbirds,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">eagles, orange blossoms</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">the rose, dolphins,</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">African lions, wild</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">wolves, snow leopards,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you took summer,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">fall winter, his</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">17 year old spring,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I send him </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">back to you, what</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you took, what</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you took, what</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you took, what</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">you took, for</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">ever. </span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">In memory, Trayvon Martin, his family-</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">May 16, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c) </span></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-67170039592726492422015-11-22T15:28:00.001-08:002015-11-22T15:28:52.998-08:00La Bloga: Guest Columns for a November Saturday: Texas Book Fest. Reviewing Gracias by Villanueva.<a href="http://labloga.blogspot.mx/2015/11/guest-columns-for-november-saturday.html">La Bloga: Guest Columns for a November Saturday: Texas Book Fest. Reviewing Gracias by Villanueva.</a>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-84652128970163499162015-11-15T14:34:00.001-08:002015-11-26T21:03:26.544-08:00WE PASS IT ON<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Our fundamental state is joy." El Buddha </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">I trust my hungers, my</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">body's voice, purring</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">howling singing weeping</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">laughing, I follow</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">her wisdom, she's always </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">right, mi Mamacita</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">called her La Llorona,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">she's also Coatlicue,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">IxChel, Quan Yin,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Green Tara, White</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Tara, Shakti, Kali,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">sweet/fierce Saraswati,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">who I met in Bali,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">she asked me, "What is</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">freedom, madam?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>The freedom of my</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>hungers, to be fed</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>beautiful food, float in</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>healing waters, bathe my</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>mermaid hair, human</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>body, to be loved</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>unconditionally this</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>undying Cosmos, to</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>dream...</i> in spite</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">of wars, ongoing violence,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">the innocent killed while</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">eating dinner, dancing at a</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">concert in Paris,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">going to market, daily</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">human errands in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Beirut (and other places, the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Earth we share)- I</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">believe the killers are in</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">the minority, we who love</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">our hungers, laughter of</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">children, rising Sun Moon</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Stars, who feed our</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i> </i>human hungers to love,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">stubbornly/joyfully</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">dance our</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">freedom, always</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">with the other,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">we pass it on</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">this dance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">we pass it on<i> </i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">we shall </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">inherit</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">this wonder</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Earth. <i> </i></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">November 13, 2015</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">*I started writing this poem on November 11th, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">couldn't finish it for 'some reason'- until the 13th. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">We pass it on...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">The Healer, in all her hummingbird forms...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><i> </i> </span></span><br />
<br />Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-35329344252809418152015-10-27T15:38:00.002-07:002015-10-27T15:38:27.891-07:00<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear World,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear IxChel,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear Quetzalcoatl, October 23, 2015</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We are becoming a</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">world of refugees,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">immigrants, following the</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ancient human trade</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">routes, not guided by</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">dreams this time, but</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">guided by poverty, war,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">simple hunger, the</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">fierce desire that our</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">children survive us,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">we follow that <i><b>fierce</b></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>instinct</b></i> over man made</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">borders, Madre Africa,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">our Human Womb, dreams</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">her children in drought,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">flood, tidal wave, hunger, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">war. See that Mexican</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">mother, baby in her arms,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">older children surrounding</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">her, she is your</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">mother. See that Syrian</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">father, clutching his toddler,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">wife lost at sea, he</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is your father. See</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">that Congolese grandmother</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">starving, tortured, her</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sons gone to war, rape,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">she is your grandmother.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See that Guatemalan</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">grandfather weeping, watching</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">his 12 year old granddaughter</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">raped, los coyotes,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">journey to the USA, safety,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">land of daily food, he</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is your grandfather.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See the five year old trying</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to sleep with hunger, Land</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of Plenty USA, one in four</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">children hungry, she</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">is your child.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See the teens at Rikers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Island thousands, millions</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in adult prisons USA,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">at Rikers their once a day</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">outdoors, <i>hour</i> at </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">dawn, rain, sun, snow,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in a cage, shackled,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">solitary for months,</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the teenage brain/mind/spirit,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the time of <i>unfolding</i>,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">crushed, human promise</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">murdered, these are your</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">teens, these are your</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">teens, these are your</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">teens, these are our</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">teens, murdered promise.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See us all fiercely crossing</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">borders, the ancient </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">human trade routes,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">survival. Wherever</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">you are</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">welcome</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">your family</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">home. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">**The USA has the largest, for profit,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">prison system in the world. At Rikers Island</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the majority of teens are held for years, waiting </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for a 'court date,' as families cannot post their</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">bail. Google <i><b>Kalief Browder</b></i>, who refused to </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">plead guilty- the usual way out of Rikers- he </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">refused, that immense courage. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(My 'Dear World' poems are in their</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">20th year, where I bitch, moan, praise.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They can be found in my books, most </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">recently, 'GRACIAS.' </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">www.almaluzvillanueva.com</span></span></span><br />
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Mexico City, bike taxi...then to Frida's casita, where her Spirit lives, her laughter. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i> </span></span></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-81981429713945139852015-04-11T12:51:00.000-07:002015-04-11T12:51:52.284-07:00<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">QUERIDO POPOCATEPTL</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">The villagers call you </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">father, brother, uncle, son-</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">I call you lover, my</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">ancient lover- flying in</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">to Mexico City I saw</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your snowy peak, you</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">didn't fool me, I felt</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">the heat of your body,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your lava, your core,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your longing for my</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">touch, ancient lover,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">the Earth danced beneath </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">my feet, our Mother, la</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Madre, she knew nothing</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">could keep me from you,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your body, your lava,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your core, the ancient</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">memory of our union.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">I dream your body, gift from Earth,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sun, Moon, every Star, I see</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your molten eyes, your molten mouth,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">your molten hands, your molten sex, lava</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">bright, meteor bright, first eruption,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">genesis of our longing, I am coming,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">wait for me, I am dreaming,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">wait for me, I am singing,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">wait for me, I am dying</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">to receive. Your burning</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">body. Lava. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">April 2012</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">*Two weeks after la Madre's dance, Popocateptl began to sing to his lover, Iztaccihuatl, fire and ash.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">This poema is from my just published book, 'GRACIAS,' which can be found on www.amazon.com Just enter my name and all of my books pop up- also, my 4th novel, 'SONG OF THE GOLDEN SCORPION,' published last year is also listed. I love the personal emails I receive, but feel free to comment here as well- wishing you a beautiful Spring wherever you are.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-29402462821356468262014-12-09T12:25:00.000-08:002014-12-09T12:25:07.221-08:00THE WORLD IS FULL OF SIGNS <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The stars are like letters that inscribe</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">themselves at every moment in the sky.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everything in this world is full of signs.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">All events are coordinated. All things </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">depend on each other. Everything </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">breathes together." Greek philosopher, Plotinus</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE WORLD IS FULL OF SIGNS</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I can't breathe,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't breathe,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't breathe,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can't breathe,"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eric Garner's last</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">breath, words,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">words, breath,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">father, husband, son</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">no longer breathes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">no longer breathes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">no longer breathes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">or speaks or laughs</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">or calls his children's</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">names or sings his</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">favorite songs in the </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">shower, or speaks</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">softly to his wife</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">or laughs with her</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">or argues with her,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his breath is gone,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his words are gone,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">his mother's memory,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">first breath,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">first words,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">yes, everything breathes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">together, all things depend on</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">each other, all events are </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">coordinated, everything in the</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">world is full of signs,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">and we can't breathe,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">we can't breathe, we</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">can't breathe, we</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">can't breathe</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">freely, the stars are like</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">letters that inscribe themselves</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">at every moment in the sky,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">we can't breathe</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">freely, we can't,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">everything, every thing</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">breathes, yes, breathes</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">together.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eric Garner murdered in an <i><b>illegal</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>chokehold</b></i>, July 12, 2014. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">**Mike Brown, 18- Tamir Rice, 12- </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trayvon Martin, 17...all unarmed</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">December 2014</span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Everything breathes together...</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-45700953407184579212014-11-04T13:37:00.000-08:002014-11-04T13:37:28.167-08:00HANDS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I've arrived, the peak</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">of my life, so many</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hands have carried me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">here, loving hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">brutal hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">soothing hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">stinging hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">healing hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the hands that caught</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my four children emerging</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">from my pulsing vulva,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the hands that sang</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to every inch of my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">body, the hands I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">shielded myself from,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">fought back,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my warrior hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my mother hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my lover hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my daily hands,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">these blessed hands</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">that care for me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">without question,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">without reward,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">these hands that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">love me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">these hands that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">feed me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">these hands that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bathe me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">these hands that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dream me whole</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">nightly, daily,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I kiss each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hand, left and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">right, these</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hands that guide</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my way into this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">wondrous world, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">terrible world, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">loving world, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">killing world, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">exquisite world of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">so many </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hands, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">moment I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">kiss each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">one.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">*On tripping, hair line fracture, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my precious right hand I'm </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">writing this poem with, my </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">fingers taped together, still </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">able to move, write, type for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">short periods but getting better.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">And on turning 7+0... esta vida.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">GRACIAS for the private emails, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">feel free to post here, add a poem</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">if la spirit moves you. Now, pause</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to kiss both of your beloved hands.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Below photo, giving La Finger in the best, most loving way- Barcelona, 10/14...Vampire Girl behind me made me do it.</span><br />
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-78059321437147876572014-10-19T15:10:00.001-07:002014-10-19T15:17:02.808-07:00SCAFFOLDS OF (YOUR) VISION<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Gracias, Gaudi,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your dreams,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your vision,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your vow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">of poverty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">to create</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">such richness,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">the humble greatness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">of your Spirit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">flows, pierces</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">all humanity,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">all gods, goddesses,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">all names,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">same source,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Great Spirit,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">all mountains,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">forests, creeks, rivers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred lakes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred seas,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred trees</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">breathing air,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">bearing fruit,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred fields,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">our Mother's body</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">feeds us, you, us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">marries Earth/Sky,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Sun/Moon,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Winter/Spring,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">love/hate/love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dreaming us, Her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Womb, this </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred beauty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">you created </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">for us, I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">hear your</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sweet laughter,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">well spent</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">in riches,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">fever of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dreams, voice,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">song, your</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">daily heart,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">young men</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">still climb the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">scaffolds of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your vision,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">laughing as</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">they build</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your dream,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sacred sunlight,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">well muscled,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">pregnant women,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">running children, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">those in wheel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">chairs, we</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">enter your</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sunlight stained</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">glass rainbow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dream womb</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Earth Sky</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dream, I hear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your daily heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">alive, undying,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your sweet </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">laughter, tears,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">surprise, last</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">breath, the streets,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">metal trolley, your body,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dead, dream, daily heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">undying laughter/vision/light,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">gracias, Gaudi. Gracias. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Barcelona, Spain...October 2014</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span><br />
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-28541363873577826562014-08-05T12:40:00.000-07:002014-08-05T12:41:30.451-07:00WISDOM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">A child was sliced in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">half in Palestine, I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">saw the photo, wondering </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">if he could be put back</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">together, I wanted more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">than anything to put </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">him back together, his</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">four year old head, torso,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">his still baby-like </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">legs, bare feet, curled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">as though to spring to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">life, laughing at any</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">moment, the bloody</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">torso, the bloody</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">baby-like legs, bare</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">feet, his mother will</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">not ever hear the sweet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ring of his laughter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">from four to manhood,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">his bitter tears unshed-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">a child was sliced in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">half in Palestine today,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">among so many children,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the wisdom of Solomon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">could not save him, no</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">love strong enough to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">say, yell, scream, "<b><i>Here,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i>take him, let him</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i>live, let him live whole,</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i>intact, alive, do not</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i>slice my beloved child</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i>in half, let him</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">live!</i>" Wisdom. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">To the children in Palestine,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the children crossing the USA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">borders alone, being returned to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">danger. Into the Sixth Sun...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c) August 2014</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-42733300086733021732014-05-06T13:27:00.000-07:002014-05-09T15:30:04.303-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">CHILD</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Child of the ancestors,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Goddess, Gods,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">queens and kings,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of dreaming,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">myth, wisdom,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">pyramids, stone by</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">stone,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of visionary</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">poet kings,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Sor Juana,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of storytellers</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">and singers, Octavio</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Paz, Rosario Castellanos,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of perfect</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">beauty, Frida Kahlo, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Diego Rivera, on the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">500 peso bill,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of Quetzalcoatl</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">and Xochiquetzal, la</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">madre Coatlique, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">great IxChel,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of Sun and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Moon, every Star,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">born to Earth/Sky,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child in tattered clothing,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">worn, dirty shoes,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">toes exposed, trying to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sell a useless</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">coupon,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">the shiny, abundant</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">super market, the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">blonde woman shakes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">her head in disgust,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">you beg, eyes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">pleading,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">hunger, comfort, bath,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">clean clothes, some</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">safety, even love, a</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">hawk-eyed teen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">watches you,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">bullies you,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">not to stop</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">begging, pleading,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your useless</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">coupon,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your brown</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dirty hand, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">child of the ancestors, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">would the great poet</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">king, Nezahualcoyotl,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sing a poem to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">you, child of </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">despair and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">hunger, filth,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">your eyes still</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">innocence.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">May 2014</span></div>
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-25696983830899224602014-04-01T14:55:00.000-07:002014-04-01T14:55:10.126-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">UNCONQUERED</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I eat breakfast</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">and watch Moctezuma's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">throat be slashed, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">conquest unfold,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Sor Juana at the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">top/edge, encircled in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">violet, her poet's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">heart on fire, La</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Virgen carried on a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">banner, Coatlique in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">disguise, her skulls</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">hidden under her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">gentle dress, a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">woman giving birth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">with great IxChel's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">help, as all women</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">are, umbilical cord</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dangling from vagina,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">child alive, survivor of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">the conquest, I am</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">a survivor of the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">conquest, a wild</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">mestiza child, my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">poet's heart on </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fire, I am the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dreamer, one of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">thousands, Moctezuma</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">slaughtered, terrified of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">our dreams, our visions,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">now I sit, centuries</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">later, my dreams,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">visions, memory,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">intact- I see the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Great Books burning, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I weep, this I know,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dreams can't be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">burned, I see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Sor Juana's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">poet's heart on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fire,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">as the woman's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">vagina burns with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">birth, IxChel singing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">"Dreamers, you have</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">survived, each century</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">your voices stronger,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">sweeter, your poet's heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">unconquered, dream</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">new words,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">new stories,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">new Great Books, on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fire." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">To Sor Juana's heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">*Written at Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Mexico, while gazing at the magnificent mural of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Mexico's his/herstory, on fire, unconquered. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">March 2014</span><br />
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-59619376721102544402013-10-03T14:11:00.000-07:002013-12-12T17:52:19.257-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">BRIDE</span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Death paused</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">for me, I ran</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">across the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">slender, cobbled</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">street, mourners</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">behind black</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hearse, all</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">walking to the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">graveyard, they</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">will make the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">grave so beautiful,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">flowers, favorite</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">things, bottle of</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">tequila perhaps, they</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">know their beloved</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dead, their ancestors,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">it will be so</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">beautiful, they</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">will return Dia de</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Los Muertos to weep,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laugh, share</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">their family</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">feast, remember </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><i>this life</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> * * *</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I arrive for breakfast,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">courtyard fountain, mural</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">of Mexico to gaze at, a </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">child still connected to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">her mother's vagina, cord</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">not cut, just born, her</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ecstatic body- teens</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">carry stacked chairs on</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">their backs, hauling huge</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">tables, velvet sofas, into</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the courtyard, men create a</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dance floor, women scatter</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">candles everywhere, fire,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">joy for the wedding, fire,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">joy tonight, the wedding-</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">an older woman calmly fills</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">each tier of the central</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">fountain with paradise,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">armloads of paradise,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rainbows of paradise,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the scent of paradise</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">reaches me, a wise</span></div>
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-5978829883221213632013-09-11T17:50:00.001-07:002013-09-11T17:50:05.251-07:00SONG OF THE GOLDEN SCORPION, novel | Alma Luz Villanueva | Blog Post | Red Room<a href="http://redroom.com/member/alma-luz-villanueva/blog/song-of-the-golden-scorpion-novel#.UjEPpWx2I7w.blogger">SONG OF THE GOLDEN SCORPION, novel | Alma Luz Villanueva | Blog Post | Red Room</a>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-60275582371107815082013-08-11T10:42:00.003-07:002013-08-11T10:49:24.464-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">My new novel, 'SONG OF THE GOLDEN SCORPION,' is now available- for more info please go to my publisher's site, here's the link www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=163 *It looks like you must paste this address- another way is to go directly to www.wingspress.com and click on Authors, my name....but the link is faster. Also, my new book of poetry, 'GRACIAS,' will also be available in November, same wonderful publisher and site, gracias. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">In the streets of Mexico, where I live, vendors selling delicious ice creams, roasted corn, freshly made tamales, bouquets of yellow squash blossoms- my favorite couple in their 80s leading their burro loaded with rainbows of vegetables/flowers spraying out like a halo- everyone comes singing and shouting their offerings by mi casita- this is me singing and shouting with so much JOY...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">**The first two photos are of the wonderful native dancers that arrive from all over Mexico (as well as the ones who live here), taking over the zocalo in San Miguel de Allende. The 3rd is me at Quetzalcoatl's Temple, Teotihuacan, Pyramid of the Sixth Sun. </span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-76782438118947828872013-04-29T08:43:00.001-07:002013-04-29T13:19:04.845-07:00"OUR FUNDAMENTAL STATE IS JOY." Buddha<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Here's a link to some of my poems and an interview... wishing every one, wherever you are much JOY, in spite of sorrow, the daily bad news...I know there's also the daily good news, and we must witness it all. "Our fundamental state is joy." Buddha <a href="http://spaceslitmag.com/2013/03/13/poetry-alma-luz-villanueva">http://spaceslitmag.com/2013/03/13/poetry-alma-luz-villanueva</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">**Also, the photos are mine. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">One more link from my favorite Buddhist teacher, Pema Chodron- she quotes from one of my poems, 'Sassy'...very honored. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mandalapress.com/blog/?tag=alma-luz-villanueva">www.mandalapress.com/blog/?tag=alma-luz-villanueva</a></span><br />
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Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-66479398316783762852013-03-12T15:33:00.002-07:002013-03-12T15:38:33.477-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Dear World,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dear Earth,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dear Ixchel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> March 1, 2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">The taxi driver takes the long </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">route, I'm irritated until</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I begin to <i style="font-weight: bold;">see</i> (again) small</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">stores with oranges, papaya,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">mangoes, bananas, broccoli, avocados,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">tomatoes, fresh corn, fresh squash,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fresh strawberries, watermelons</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">from neighboring fields, some</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">plowed by horses- everything</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">tastes like it self, earth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">born, not the killing laboratories</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">where false food becomes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">chemicals that stunt our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">children's brains, bodies,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">spirits, and then medicate</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">them, they're hyperactive,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">autistic, so-called <i style="font-weight: bold;">spectrum</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">The vendor on the corner, his </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">small cart, laughs as he</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">swiftly slices papaya, mangoes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">watermelon, pineapple, in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">containers, lime/chilie on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">top, the young woman</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">roasting her small chickens</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">(no growth hormones) under</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">an open flame, she'll spoon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">free roasted potatoes, onions,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">jalapenos into the plastic bag,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">freshly made salsa, a small</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">store selling handmade</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">tortillas, freshly roasted</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">corn into plastic bags,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">the vendor on the corner with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">her still warm chicken/pork</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">tamales, hot atole, science </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">doesn't intrude on the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">streets here, only a muted</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">human joy, meeting eyes, greeting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">this one, that one, "Buenos dias."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I follow fully feathered</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">dancers, women, children,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">teens, men burning copal, guitars,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">full throated singing, drumming</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">guides the feet, alive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">human joy revealed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">feathered dancers turn </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">toward newborn Sixth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Sun Spring, a large</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">man painted entirely blue</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">sky, lighting bolts appearing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Thunder Being Kachina-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">a tattooed teen hidden in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fangs, eagle/owl feathers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">kneels both knees, tourists</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">rush to photograph him-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">"He's praying," I say-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">"Looks like he's posing to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">me," they say- they focus</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">on his sacred passion,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">his Beloved Spring, and when</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">he suddenly screams, a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">jaguar, they scatter, I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">laugh, he continues to dance,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">kneel, pray, dance, his Beloved</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">into being. Into being. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">The children turn on the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">cobbles, little rattles creating</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">rain, the drummers creating</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">thunder, the young women,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">girls creating beauty, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">tattooed teen dancing passion,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">womb of Spring,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">praying passion,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">womb of Spring,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">into being, that we</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">may live.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> * * * *</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Not in the infertile test tubes of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">science, but in the endlessly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">fertile, wild womb of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Ixchel, our Beloved Spring,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">that we may </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">live, that our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">children live, dear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">World, dear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Earth, dear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Ixchel, dear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">beloved jaguar</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">spring.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;">**The painting, Frida Kahlo, Casa Azul.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-39930885325056769412013-02-25T11:44:00.001-08:002013-02-27T11:24:47.380-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">RIPENED ROSE</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Woke up to a bird</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">flying out of my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">body, a ripened</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bird of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">joy, water guy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">delivering water, flute</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">player sharpening knives,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">warm blue tortillas</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">soon, joy joy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">joy...young man,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">immense bucket of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rainbows on his</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">shoulders, I buy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my share, he smiles,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the woman on the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">corner, warm tamales</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">wrapped in Madre </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Maiz, Mother Corn,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hot thick chocolate</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">atole, breakfast,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my granddaughter gave</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">birth to her first</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">child, beautiful boy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my granddaughter a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">healer, may her son be a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">healer, as my youngest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">son, my granddaughter's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">age, a healer, a lover</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">of Earth, Madre Mar,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sweet Sky, the families</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">he heals, his own</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">family, now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">a man, the world-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bring me the daily</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">sorrows, my own,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the world's- do you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">think the rose suddenly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">just bursts into bloom,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">it begins as a dream</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">at the very tip of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">thorn, the one that demands</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">blood- this is how the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rose is born, blooms,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ripened joy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">To Logan Pauvan Preto, blossomed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">born, his mother's blood, February 18th, 2013.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">To my amazing granddaughter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Ashley Preto. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">(c) All writing copyright on this blog.</span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-54164276258870771362013-02-15T12:47:00.001-08:002013-02-16T14:18:19.898-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">FIERY WOMBS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">My grandmother, Jesus, full blood</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Yaqui, a curandera/healer from</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Sonora, who popped the paper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">sack with her hand at the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">border crossing, the rude</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">officer emptying all her carefully</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">packed luggage, boxes, pregnant with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">my mother, crossing <i>legally</i> with her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">minister/poet husband to a church in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">East Los Angeles, she popped the sack,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">shouting, <b>AIRE MEXICANA</b>, I can</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">see her eagle eyes from my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">childhood, defiant to her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">molten core, her heart, her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">spirit, her fiery womb- I read this,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">that women are born with their</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">ovaries, all their eggs, so a part</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">of us in our grandmother's, great</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">grandmother's, great great, their</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">wombs, their fiery wombs,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">in my daughter, my granddaughter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">my great great, yes, grandson,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">my sons born from these fiery</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">ancestor wombs, we are.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> * * * *</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Yesterday in line for my FM-3 to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">live in Mexico, I saw the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">photo they chose, among the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">smiling, friendly ones- I look</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">like I have indigestion, someone's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">trying to fuck with me, someone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">won't let me travel the ancient</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">trade routes, the I-don't-need-no-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">stickin-badges-look, not pretty,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">believe me, and I start to laugh,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">"I look like a damn criminal,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">I say to the customs guy, he protests</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">that I don't look like a criminal-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">"I'm a border crosser, so I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">must be," I laugh louder. "Ayyy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">senora," he shakes his head. We</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">Villanueva women, Jesus Villanueva,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">cross our borders with Kokopelli's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">ancient flute in our ears, laughing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">shouting, dancing, fiery wombs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> Arizona's SB 1070 give me indigestion,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> One people, one planet the next</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> 1,000 years, QUE VIVA....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"> San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br />Jesus y Pablo, wedding day, Sonora, Mexico...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">my great-grandmother, a well known curandera</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">in Sonora at that time, refused to name her daughter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">the feminine, Jesusa, I love that, her fiery womb.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">**All postings/poetry on this blog copyright- </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">contact me via the email shown here for </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">publication requests, as I've received some,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">gracias. This poem will be published in my </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">new book, 'GRACIAS,' fall 2013- will post</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">info toward summer 2013. As well as my novel, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">'SCORPION HUNTER,' The Twins, the same</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;">publishing date. </span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-80983741621094039662013-02-01T13:57:00.000-08:002013-02-01T13:57:10.496-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Dear World, dear Earth,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">dear La Ixchel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">dear Sacred Mockingbird,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"> January 2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">You must not kill a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Sacred Mockingbird</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">because they sing </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">for us sun to moon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">to sun, learning up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">to 200 songs in their </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">life time, they sing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">their tiny hearts out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">for us till they cease</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">to fly the wind into</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">sunlight, moonlight, they</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">mark our moments, our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">days, our dreams,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">fresh songs, memorized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">pulsing hearts, they</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">ask for nothing, only</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">sun, moon, wind, berries,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">to fly sun to moon to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">sun, learning songs, to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">simply live, within our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">dreams, our human</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">memory, their berry</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">rich songs, up to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">200 in a life time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">I wonder, oh I wonder,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">what songs, their voices,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">each voice, each dream,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">each fully lived life,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">their 200 songs ripened,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">each one had to sing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">sun to moon to sun, their</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">flight cut short, each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">one...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Charlotte Bacon, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Daniel Borden, 7 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Olivia Engel, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Josephine Gay, 7 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Ana M. Marquez- Greene, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Dylan Hockley, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Madeline F. Hsu, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Catherine V. Hubbard, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Chase Howalski, 7 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Jesse Lewis, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">James Mattioli, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Grace McDonnell, 7 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Emilie Parker, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Jack Pinto, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Noah Pozner, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Caroline Previdi, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Jessica Rekos, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Avielle Richman, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Benjamin Wheeler, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Allison N. Wyatt, 6 years old</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">In the beautiful film, To Kill A</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Mockingbird, Scout says, about </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">harming another, "It's like killing a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">mockingbird, isn't it?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">**To the twenty little birds killed in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Newton, Connecticut, and the parents</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">who will not hear their so sweet, ripened</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">songs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-857243234665248372013-01-10T13:23:00.001-08:002013-01-10T13:23:55.778-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">ALEGRIA</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Returning a mi casita,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">students glowing joy light,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">family children holy fire,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">old friends volcano</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">core and ash filling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">the sacred Sixth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Sun, I was sad,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">all alone, all one,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">the word rose out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">of me, womb to heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">to throat, a cry,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><i>ALEGRIA</i>, Yaqui rattle,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">red rose, green leaves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">painted, gourd handle,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">I began to cry/sing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">"Alegria alegria alegria,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">rattle song, each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">room, mi casita, up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">the stairs, bedroom,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">bath, more stairs, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">roof, "Alegria alegria</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">alegria," flocks of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">white winged birds tipped</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">their wings, laughing, my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">ancestors laughed/wept,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">joined me, "Alegria alegria</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">alegria" esta vida of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">sorrow joy sorrow joy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">let me swim oh swim</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">its vast glittering ocean,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">let me dance each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">step as though</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">for the first time,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">let me kiss each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">beloved face, the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">first time, <i>alegria</i>,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">let me remember</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">simple love of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">children's tender fingers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">around my neck, baby</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">scent crown chakra,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">lover's sweat merging</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">mine, shy trusting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">eyes meeting, each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">friend a flower</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">dazzling eyes and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">heart, to the lovers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">who were first</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">friends pistil stamen,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">the letting go of beloved</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">body, not the Spirit,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">returning in dreams,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">we know each other</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">not by names (although</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> I name you), not by</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">faces (although I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> remember you), not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">by scent, laughter, voice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> (I remember, always will),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">we know </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">each other</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">alegria</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">simple love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>alegria</b>...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">January 2013...'13' the Mayan number</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">of magic, Sacred Self, Sacred Other...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">**To Meliza Orantes, who danced on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">table tops in Paris, her dazzling smile, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Spirit, always alive...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-53222709915168579912013-01-02T12:33:00.001-08:002013-01-02T12:37:23.183-08:00SACRED CHILD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Circular pan dulce,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Rosca de Reyes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Ano Nuevo, New Year,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">we begin (oh again),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">cutting, biting carefully,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">sweet bread, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">surprise baked in,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">break your tooth in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">half, surprise, gift,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">cut/bite carefully,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">the Sacred Child</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">emerges in clay,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">the Sacred Child</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">emerges in us all,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">bite carefully, kiss</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">tenderly, s/he emerges</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">laughing/weeping</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">into the Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Sixth Sun, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">next 5,200 years,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">the Sacred Child</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">so alive, singing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">us home, singing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">us Home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva (c)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">January 1, 2013</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">*#13, Sacred Mayan number, magic/mystery unfolding... Sacred Self, Sacred Other, Sacred Child...one planet, one people, into the Sacred Sixth Sun...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">(To my son, Jules, who works daily with families, children, teens at risk in California, his work inspires me, his stories. He knows the families with no food, no furniture, teens of color who are in (great) danger of going directly to prison- he counsels them and also finds them food, furniture, and they give him JOY. And to all those who do this daily hero/hera work...Sacred Self, Sacred Other, Sacred Child alive in the world, gracias, amor, mas milagros (miracles)....</span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-31735702925618625162012-11-08T22:13:00.000-08:002012-11-08T22:13:03.131-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">CEREMONY</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Climbing the Sixth Sun,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sacred Sun Pyramid,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">straight up, warm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sun, cool morning</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Wind God pushes me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">up, I pause to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">breathe deeply,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">drink water, a boy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">of four behind me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">begins to cry, he's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">thirsty, forgot to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bring him water, I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">offer mine, he smiles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">and drinks- work at</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the top, not able</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to climb to the top, a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">great-grandmother in her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">eighties is helped to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the almost top, her</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">family bracing her,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">no one's bracing me, it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">seems to be my path,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to climb the Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Pyramid of the Sixth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sun alone, the only</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">(grown) child I miss</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">is my youngest, but</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">la vida calls him,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">as it should, his own</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">family, families in great</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">need, a daily warrior</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">in the world, and I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">needed to come alone,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">all one, to greet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the Sacred Sixth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sun, and one thirsty</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">four year old boy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Unable to climb to the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">top, I circled my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rattle singing, next</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">year I will be a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">great grandmother and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">no one will brace me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">yes, they will love me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">that's allowed, maybe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">in my eighties when I'm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">a great great grandmother,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">maybe, right now the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">waiter's read my mind,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">plays native flute, drums,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rattles, my birth </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">day gift, so</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">well deserved, bird</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">song, rattles, all day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">sacred white butterflies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">followed me, yellow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">monarchs, little bees,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">brash young men, "Hola </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">hermosa...I have a </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">special gift for you...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Take it, it's free," I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">don't do my usual come</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">back, "I'm old enough</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to be your grandmother," </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">now I'm old enough </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to be your great grandmother,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I just laughed- right now</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the music is only rattles, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the sound of sweet </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bones, the ancestors</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">winging home, I'm</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">a baby, I'm an </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ancient, I'm not</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">born, I'm dead/transformed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I'm newly born, always</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to the song of rattles,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">sweet bones winging us</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">home, dancing us home-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I just told the waiter, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my youngest son's age, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">"This music, flute, drums,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">now only rattles, is</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">perfect, gracias."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">"It suits this place,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">your presence (he</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">doesn't bullshit me</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">with <i>senorita</i>, I've</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">been called senorita </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">all day, I laughed, they</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">want some thing, my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">smile, my money, my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">life)- he's an eagle </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dancer, a deer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dancer, a wind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dancer, a Sun</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">dancer, I know</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">his mother loves him,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">he loves his mother,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the women in his </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">family, sacred, he</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">knows I need the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">sweet bones of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ancestors, a pure</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">chocolate cake woven</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">with fruit, drizzled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">with honey, chocolate,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">a perfect birth day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">cake- I sit by</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the pool, too cold to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">swim, a clay flower</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">painted senorita, I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laugh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> * * *</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">An older man, probably</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my age, asked me if</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I'd done ceremony on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the Pyramid of the Sun,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">without thinking I answered</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">yes, the two silver bracelets,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">symbols of Quetzalcoatl,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sacred Sixth Sun,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I bought 50 pesos </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">each, the third a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">gift, he smiled, "Fuego,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">fire should always </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">be a gift, the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">entire day a</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ceremony, the gift of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">water and fire,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I hear the laughter of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my four grown </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">children, grandchildren,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">great grandchild in the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">cosmic womb dreaming,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the ancestors singing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">the rattle song, all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">my friends, some over</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">thirty/forty years, my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">students seeing me whole,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I seeing them whole, we</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">are the gift, we are the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ceremony.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> * * *</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">White butterflies,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ancestor souls,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">guide me/us to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Quetzalcoatl's Temple,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">some know it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">some don't,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">yet we all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">arrive, Quetzalcoatl's</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Spirit laughing in the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">young grass, the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">large rocks tiny</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">red ants carry to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">their mound, bleeding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">cactus fruit/flowers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">ancient clouds/air</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Quetzalcoatl breathed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laughing, I hear him</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laughing, some times</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">weeping, for his</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">children, I sit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">facing steps that </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">he climbed (still climbs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> Full Moon Mother</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">blessing him), flanked</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">each side Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Snake, Sacred Jaguar,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sacred Eagle, Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Shell, I hear him</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laughing, take out my</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bird rattle, Quetzalcoatl's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">flute I bought here</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">thirty-four years ago</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">at the foot of the Pyramid</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">of the Sun, lone vendor,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">almost sunset, newly </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">married, we climbed to the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">top that day, each</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">playing it, we became</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">God/Goddess, today I play</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bird rattle, snake/eagle</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">flute, weaving tears and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laughter, loss and gift,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">folly and wisdom, marriage</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to the Other, marriage</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">to the Self, silence</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">and song, stillness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">and such dancing, today</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">I become fully</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">human.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> * * *</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">We all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all circle</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all circle the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all circle the Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Pyramid of the Sun</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">rattles in hands</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">flutes to our lips</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">laughing weeping silent</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">singing limping dancing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all enter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all enter the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all enter the Sixth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all enter the Sixth Sacred Sun</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">we all enter the Sacred</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">Sixth Sun</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">bracing each </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">other up</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">together</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">together</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">together</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> Teotihuacan, Mexico</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> October 4, 2012</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> Into the Sixth World...</span>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-83620949067153160142012-07-31T13:18:00.000-07:002012-07-31T13:18:29.373-07:00QUETZALCOATL'S RADIANCEI live in Mexico<br />
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because fireworks wake</div>
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me up pre-dawn,</div>
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Quetzalcoatl shimmering through</div>
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sky window, these</div>
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fireworks sound like </div>
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gunfire, someone's </div>
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died, left the body,</div>
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someone beloved, they</div>
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explode, they weep</div>
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for two hours, through </div>
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the day, and no</div>
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one calls the police, every</div>
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one understands some</div>
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one's left their body, some</div>
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one beloved is gone. I</div>
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dream through explosions,</div>
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wake to loud joyous </div>
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mariachis in the distance,</div>
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a marriage, family gathering,</div>
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I live in Mexico</div>
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because death and</div>
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life hold hands</div>
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dancing, singing, exploding</div>
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with grief and joy-</div>
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I live in Mexico</div>
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because every car stops</div>
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for the funeral procession,</div>
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a singer/guitarist sings</div>
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the beloved's favorite</div>
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songs on the way to</div>
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the cemetery, where</div>
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families will gather, Dia</div>
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de Los Muertos, to</div>
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welcome their tender Spirits</div>
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home, from babies to </div>
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elders, a feast on the</div>
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graves they decorate,</div>
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joy/sorrow equally,</div>
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beauty, song, candles,</div>
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tiny stars flicker all</div>
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night long as Spirits</div>
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come to taste tamales,</div>
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tacitos, tequila, cerveza,</div>
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fresh limes, oranges,</div>
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sweet cakes, where</div>
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the father of his Spirit</div>
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teen, grave decorated with</div>
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little cars, dancing</div>
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muertos, bottles of</div>
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empty Victorias (his</div>
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favorite), some full,</div>
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proudly shows me his</div>
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handsome boy, I can't</div>
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weep, his smile of</div>
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pure joy-</div>
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I drove to Mexico</div>
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in spring 2005, the</div>
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fear color codes of</div>
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my country, endless</div>
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wars on some enemy,</div>
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my dreams filled with</div>
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mourning women, holding </div>
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Spirit sons, daughters,</div>
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only sorrow, only grief,</div>
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no graves of marigolds,</div>
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feasts, sorrow/joy,</div>
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death holding hands</div>
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with life, dancing, singing,</div>
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weeping, exploding</div>
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pre-dawn journey of</div>
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the beloved, all day</div>
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into the night, mariachis</div>
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leading a wedding party to</div>
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more joy, holding hands</div>
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with life death life-</div>
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I live in Mexico</div>
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to remember,</div>
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to witness</div>
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simple human</div>
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joy sorrow joy,</div>
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those without my</div>
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country's great entitlements,</div>
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the leaders, the shameless</div>
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1% who would haul</div>
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off the mourner with </div>
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explosive weeping, singing,</div>
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who allow one in five</div>
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children in my country to</div>
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be hungry, who prefer</div>
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the poor to die (very)</div>
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quickly, while mouthing</div>
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how much they love their </div>
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country, care for its people,</div>
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send the neediest young to</div>
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kill/die for their oil wars,</div>
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want to control the</div>
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sacred wombs of women,</div>
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the constant enemy,</div>
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the constant fear,</div>
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unhinging our young, our</div>
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unbonded to our Mother</div>
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Earth young, bringing</div>
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automatic weapons to</div>
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schools, universities,</div>
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playgrounds, now</div>
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theaters where the masses</div>
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go to dream, the manufactured</div>
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dream of Holly Wood,</div>
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dream, all humans need to</div>
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dream, many have forgotten</div>
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how to dream, <i style="font-weight: bold;">vision</i>-</div>
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I live in Mexico</div>
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because a Huichol family</div>
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in full brilliant rainbow</div>
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dress motioned me in front</div>
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of them, the market, I </div>
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thanked them but no, their</div>
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rainbow smiles insisted,</div>
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and the woman helped</div>
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me unload my full</div>
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cart, their few carefully</div>
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selected items waited, she</div>
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smiled her rainbows, I</div>
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smiled mine, "Gracias,</div>
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gracias, gracias," </div>
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I kept saying, why</div>
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I live in Mexico.</div>
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I live in Mexico to feel</div>
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full sun on my face,</div>
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full moon light/shadow,</div>
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Quetzalcoatl's radiance.</div>
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico- July 2012</div>
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<br /></div>Alma Luz Villanuevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156626828444320857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621870565232515430.post-35443708940652028982012-06-04T12:24:00.001-07:002012-06-04T20:42:27.867-07:00Dear World, dear Earth, dear Mother Ixchel... (Karma)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mother Ixchel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">bring the children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">home,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mother Ixchel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">bring the children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">home, the little</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">ones, the trusting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">ones, who knew</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">only tender touch</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">from mother, father,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">grandmother, grandfather,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">sisters, brothers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">shot, slaughtered, cut</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">down, still tender-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mother Ixchel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">bring the children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">home that we</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">may feed them in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">the morning, little </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">birds, undying song.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">May the men who</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">slaughtered carry this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">karma, dreaming</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">life times, tender souls,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mother Ixchel, you are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">tender, ruthless, loving,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">pitiless, wise beyond</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">human </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">understanding, when</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">will they learn,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Mother Ixchel, bring</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">the children</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Singing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Undying.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Little birds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>What I do</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>to you</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>I do</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>to my</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>self.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">To the children in Syria, their families, May 2012...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">fifty tender children under the age of ten slaughtered.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><br />
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