Juan Olivarez Poems

God's bow rises far above,
the grateful Earth below.
Through a myried of colors, flies a dove,
and seeds burst open and start to grow.
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Reach out your hand and touch,
your brother, that you never knew.
He does'nt ask for very much,
reach out, there are just, too few that do.
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With six shooters blazing, and thundering hoofs,
Gene and Smiley rode into the west.
They were the good guys, with all the right moves,
Silver screen cowboys, simply the best.
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There's a Brontosaurus, in Cabazon.
He's standing there, though he should be gone.
Big as a mountain, a big huge thing,
he is humongous, but not the king.
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A field of lava and plutonic rocks,
Stretches for miles all around.
And the crater looms at one o'clock,
In Amboy California, it can be found.
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A fat old rat wanted a hole,
that was the home of marty the mole.
He tried to squeeze in the front door,
but that only made his belly sore.
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One christmas morning a long time ago,
I opened a present that I wanted so.

It was a daisy a real western gun,
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Fried chicken livers on my plate,
sweet breads and kidneys don't be late.
these are the goodies we're cooking for you,
here in the back yard, got cold beer too.
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Son como el alacran,
paran la cola y se van,
dejando una polvadera,
mas y miran una guera,
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Mamacita in heaven, how I miss you,
right after you left us, I knew not what to do.
It's almost twelve years now, since you went away,
and my heart is still broken, to this very day.
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