Louie Vizcarra Poems

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1.
Civil War

Life on the farm was monotonous
I stayed inside and never lied
life was simple and there was plenty to eat
in a lonely, out of the way village
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2.
Hillside Burning

We ran in the rain
we ran in the wind.
We saw a hillside burning and we ran through that.
Throwing off our coats
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3.
The Reason For My Suffering

I looked at the reason for my suffering
defiant, brutal, overbearing
high in the sky, glaring down at me like an angry eye.
Exhausted by the heat
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4.
The Second Iceage

The second ice age started long after
My forest was washed away
first by my tears and then by the floods.
After the floods came the fire
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5.
The Spring Rains Pound On

Seamlessly and barely noticeable
while I was drowning in my songs and my poems
and burying my head in my poisons
the leaves migrated back to their summer home.
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6.
Two Plus Two

The sky matched my mood today
ugly and stale.
God wept over me and I wept over me and you.
The blue sky disappeared and was replaced by gray sky
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7.
Alexander

Golden was the savannah, the sun burning on my face.
As a boy on a mountain I gazed upon the desert and the sun planted destiny in my veins.
Shooting through time like a star in the icy sky
the frost burned my finger tips as my world became engulfed by giant spiders in giant webs.
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8.
Time

Time is a circle that cannot be stopped.
Life is a river that cannot be stopped.
I am carried along helplessly.
Sometimes while i am on The bus I call for my stop,
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9.
April

April, she will come
when streams are ripe and full of rain.
May, will she stay?
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10.
10 Days

Having been born in my own yard
I never knew a reason to leave.
But when a flower from the other side of the fence called my name
it brought me to consider.
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