UNCONTROLLABLE HEAVING

Would she have allowed me to go?
Soon as she heaved uncontrollably
These thick fumes darker than the exhaust
Clouded those entrance of her eyes and mind
A long talk many of repetitions
A point passed, the mistake made
Took a swap my waving cloud
Almost turned a home for flooding

A demand for a hug, went out calmly
Her response, for a shake abruptly
Then reached out aloud her truth
Something greater than a shake, out came
Held in my hands before they stopped

… This hug

LILINA

What’er winds blew my way
Indeed ago should have blown
Very early haven missed
All these goodies I now have
And may it not take her
Away, again I plea

Noble born commoner
Yet to possess I now
Commoner born great, like
The name I ever bear
That will make all bow down
Should she ever blink in glee

Thou beautiful petal
Blessed in magnificence
By their nurturing rain.
The closed eyes view thee
Like a fly in free flight
A halt to sap nectar

Ye brighter than lotus
Purer than rain water;
Oh thou gentle tendrils
the winds will blow your leaves
Passing, the hanging dark
If only you remain

Feel free maiden flower
Fairer than the clear day
After several days rain
Let not these clouds around
Blare your sight for I stand
Glaringly to be kept

Drink with me thou holy
From thy sap this thy wine
To poison my reason
Intoxicate to kill
No more to have any
No one but thou only

From mom to you

There lies there
Breathing of weariness
All the heaviness she has earned
The rising sun
The shining moon
Your heaviness her weariness
To nurture emptiness for fullness
In sight might be nothing as she lay
In depth to be cherished as we live
An award unknowingly behind her back
About to be conferred if she be lucky
Before her heart beats the last

And if she left before her laurel
I will tell you how she desired you
Not for herself but yourself
And if I should recount her smile
Just like yours when I first saw it
Those beautiful set of teeth
Opening to crown my presence
Her only worry that you be better
That you climb the ladder quicker
Higher where the eagles could not lay their eggs

My queen she said,
some day I would leave you
then young you were
not yet developed your enchanting look
my queen you replied
some day I would leave you
only to mimic,
not understanding her saddening look
her warm drops sipping through her pale face
tender arms though strong, you to carry.
I would leave you, some day
Baptizing you with her opened pipe

Mine still lay there breathing of loneliness
Earning weariness out of our heaviness
And if you’ll care to know
I would share with you all I have of her
As she still lay breathing of weariness
Hold my hands you’ll not fall
Slow your breath, its alright
One step at a time, we’ll get there
Picture in your minds, enough energy in your veins
Close your eyes
you’ll open, and we’re there

BROKEN MIRROR

They all passed it by not looking on
Their feet in a hurry to shake it on
The dust underneath it, off it, covers it
Broken pieces still shining reflected to refine
The psyche of this dying soul its seed to sow

Not seeing what lay there but their hurry
To do something nothing can be done
There, where they passed, lie there
Not what ought not to be done
Broken fragments lie there deserted

What those precious veins fell for
The brave protected with their fainting breath
What wobbling feet went in search for four years
Losing friends and family, lies there
In fragments and in pieces, there deserted

On that lonely road in tattered silky skirt
A far away damsel stoop to pick
Not to patch but shine a piece
Just her cloth, an edge of a cloak
With all its dirt, brightly it beamed

Once it stood the master’s bed side
That perfect piece of pearl wiped and shined
A constant reminder of the Astra
Hanged away from the visiting eye
Their mind’s mind jealously to track

Fragments and pieces will no more neatly show
An innermost soul the dark will grope
Fragments and pieces now in a patch
How we left it loose, the pain
And its scars painfully will remain

What was whole, a guarded gift of old
Broken mirrors, in fragments and pieces
Hanged patched, scars dazzling
Reflect again the mind’s mind to revive
The dust that ever settled on it in bits

CUBA: LA MARAVILLA

Who will tell of your wonder?

And the twisting and turning

Of your body and feet

As the hands roll it all

On the cleanest shores

With only sugarcane

From the overgrown fields

Who will tell of your wonder?

Of self satisfaction of contentment

That all must be respected

Not because of black or white

But traditions which are valued

And tied with culture to preserve

To remain green as ever, oh wonderful.

Who will tell of your wonder

O land of beautiful people

The sun will not stop setting

on your clean beaches

and keeping the sleeping night awake

in joy on the streets

oh wonderful like Patio Alberto Cecilia Julia

Beautiful Havana wonderful Havana

Which will make you wonder and marvel

O wonderful people our friends

Having love in their hearts

And true smile on their bright faces

unlike those who took away

their canes from their fields,

let not the sun stop shinning

on their beaches o Havana

Beautiful Havana wonderful Havana

Where our minds were shaped

Fidel’s Havana Marti’s Havana

In envy they sought to destroy

The twisting and turning

Of your body and feet

Which the hand rolls all along

In wonder to watch from afar

Beautiful Havana wonderful Havana

Wonderful people with love in their hearts

True smiles which faded not

In winter like in summer

Of her twisting and turning

I have watched from afar

In wonder, I would learn to be like her

La maravilla

Quién dirá que tu maravilla
Baila el twist con giro rápido
Que tu cuerpo y pies
Como
las manos
lo mueven
todo

Sobre las orillas limpias
donde sólo
las cañas
cubren
los campos
abandonados

Quien dirá que tu maravilla,
tu satisfaccion
y alegria
donde
Ăfrica se repite.
No por
el color
negro
o
blanco
Sino en tradiciones
que vuelan y se atan en cultura
Para preservarse
En vida original y verde

Quién dirá que tu maravilla
Ah, tierra
Maravillosa,
llena
de gente maravillosa
el sol no dejará
de amanecer por tu playa limpia
La noche no dormirá
en la calle porque bailará
en alegría
ah aquá gente maravillosa
como Pacio Alberto
ah aqua gente maravillosa
como Cecilia Julia

Llámame linda, soy de Havana
Havana que continuará a maravillándote
La maravilla es nuestra amiga
porque tiene amor
en su corazón
Y sonrisa
verdadera en rostros brillosos
No como los que roban las cañas de los campos.

Que nunca deje de brillar
el sol por las playas limpias
Ah, Havana la maravilla

Llámame también, soy de Cuba
Donde nuestra idea se formó.
Fidel luchó por mí.
Martí escribió por mí.

En su envidia buscarán destruirte
Pero al bailar el twist con un giro del cuerpo y pies.
Se quedarán como la mano que se mueve,
Maravilla, para mirarte desde lejos…

chasing after justice

Opposing torrents roaring to and away them
When their listeners hear another tune
Justice and justice nearer they beckon
Mounting the hill tops and plains
Asking the noisy blowing winds
And touching the running rivers
For answers and a stand still

Justice and justice all around us
Yet find we not when we call
Hiding their heads in the hole
Leaving their body all to space
For the little fingers all to see

We search for justice far away
When righteousness so near us to take
Take we not but in the dark shadows
To grope, strangers to lead astray

Justice and justice when time past
That hurt and pain that I once bear
Not smelling the aroma of righteousness
When close to it I had lain
Will leave me here, when all is done and gone

Justice and justice demanded his rights
With eyes that are covered
With the revenge of yesterday
Yourself you’ll become unjust
To even plea for her unfailing mercy

Justice and justice our undeniable rights
Mercy and mercy still the best

If we can temper with justice
Righteousness we’ll not call
But like our shadows will lie with us
All what we have achieved for years
The toiled respect and earned reputation
That we’ll be in the heavenly field
An illusion and its place a shooting star
Still roaming the firm firmament because of justice

When the free entry with mercy awaiting us
Will be gone.
Gone into perpetual glory without us