Juan Olivarez Poems

Companion of sorrow today,
My world as I know it is gone,
Sorrow all along my way,
My sorrow won't leave me alone.
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Listen to the thunder,
In the distance hear it roar.
It's splitting asunder,
The heavens as never before.
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Oh to be a hummingbird,
Visiting every flower around.
Kissing them all, no need for words,
New ones never left unfound.
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Sunny day in the city parks,
Mothers pushing strollers down the walk.
Kids playing tag flying like larks,
Old men on a bench, all they do is talk.
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O' GREAT SPIRIT
whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose life gives breath to all the world,
hear me! I am small and weak, I need your
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A mournful cry off in the wild,
The children of the night I've heard people say.
Like the sorrowful call of a lonely child,
Lifting their voices at the end of the day.
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Possum on the roof,
Jumping off the tree.
Eating the persimmons,
That I grew for me.
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Tiki, Tiki, Tia, all day long,
Tiki, Tiki, Tia, still going strong.
Tiki, Tiki, Tia, sings Bilbo the finch,
All day and all night, it's a lead pipe cinch.
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Sometimes as I sit and gaze,
At the clouds floating in the sky.
I'll see an old familiar face,
Someone i've seen, that caught my eye.
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Cool Ray Polaroid, shades on my eyes,
Dallas Cowboy cap, completes my disguise.
In my 67 Mustang, I'm cruising around,
With my 289, I'm doing the town.
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