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Mizuki Oct 17
¿No sientes por dentro el peso del vacío?
¿No sientes las espadas que atraviesan tu carne ?
¿No es cada vez más de noche ?
¿No hace cada vez más frío?

Es momento de cuestionar si la felicidad es más profunda,  
o si, tal vez, hoy solo contamos con más calmantes,  
más drogas, más distracciones  
que nos ciegan ante la cruda realidad.
Hay que preguntarse si la felicidad es más profunda o es solo que hoy tenemos más calmantes,
mas drogas,mas distracciones
que nos ciegan ante  la  realidad  .


Habría que preguntarse si, al declarar que el dolor y la muerte no existen,  
no será que simplemente los vemos menos ,
porque  los hemos arrinconado  
en hospitales, cárceles, suburbios,  
en esos terceros mundos de los que oímos, pero nunca vemos.
.

No enmascares el dolor del mundo
No ocultes este valle de lágrimas
No ignores el podrido océano del mal moral  ,
La carne limpia de los fariseos no ocultan  el  putrefacto hedor de la falsa ética
Si Dios nos abriera los ojos al mundo invisible,  
al mundo que nos negamos a ver,  
caeríamos muertos,  
pues es repugnante  lo abominable que puede llegar a ser el ser humano,
el  egoísmo , la hipocresía, mediocridad, violencia , angustia, dolor y sufrimiento.

No, no estás vacío; estás lleno de parásitos.  
No, no sientes esa espada,  
porque eres tú quien la clava.  
No, no ves la noche,  
porque te niegas a mirar.  
Pero sí, puedes sentir ese frío,  
porque en verdad, estás muerto , devorado por los parásitos
Chris Saitta Jun 2019
Alstroemeria, Southern-rooted watcher of the skies,
Angel tongues of Peru, with your ******-blushed annunciation
Or Incan-hued sacrificial fire.
So much like the moon tongues of all rivers in first frost or first harvest.  

Like first love, first death is the truest form,  
And blooms in scorn of all its many-mirrored rivers to come.
For a slide video of this and other poems, please check out my Instagram page at chrissaitta or my Tumblr page at Chris-Saitta.
the lost city of the Incas,
survives and breathes
with this cataclysmic vegetation
still malignant and undying
to conjure divinity
for those lack,
in the purest form,

it awed Neruda and Che
with the shimmer of the first light,
the smell is a poisonous offering,
the view is like an unforgotten love,

most of the nights in my sleep
I come back from there
and some of the nights
I wish I could never.
Hannah Jones May 2017
Lima has my heart
I was loved by these children
Until it hurt me

I don't speak Spanish
Yet they laughed and played with me
They called me their friend

Playground encounter
I thought I'd never see them
But the Lord provides

The hardest goodbye
Was to the mob of children
Kissing me farewell

Why do you love me?
We can't talk, I won't be back
Why are you so pure?

I will miss you all
Each of you has touched my heart
More than you can know
Over spring break I went on a mission trip to Peru. I didn't know much Spanish and couldn't communicate without my friends translating, but the kids I met were so beautiful and open, it broke my heart to say goodbye. Many chance encounters that were nothing short of a miracle inspired each stanza. Written through tears on the plane back to the USA.
the lost girl Dec 2016
He used to fly around me
    but he should've known
it is the kingdom of my fears
even the birds get lost in here
Cat Fiske Apr 2015
you,
two,
had no clue,
what new blue shoes,
and going to zoo,
could do for you,

Drew,
to Rue,
on Cue,
had their eyes glued,
and new true,
that very few,
due,

Drew,
with Rue,
flew,
to Peru,
And lost their new,
Blue shoes,
But gained a new
Blue hue,

Drew,
and Rue,
got married in Peru,
Under their New,
Blue,
Hue,
english project had to ryme with one of the following words:
Her, him, he, she, we, me, you, they, their, there, they're,
—for Mariel



She sells 2 sole paltas beside street  
vendors who whistle at crop-top-clad girls,
spewing profanities complete
with broken English. She has four girls
hungry at home. They dream of science, stars,
constellations that spiral and sparr
with particles that make us what we are —

interrupted by howling dogs, the 5
AM tamale man, and stray **** crows.
Amid dust-clouds of Zona D, the sun arrives
over the peak Luis claims once exposed
his innocent eyes to an angel: one
tale of faith raised on culture come undone
presently. Poet Andrea Gibson

writes, “I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about
the Big Bang.’ And the sun said, ‘it hurts to
become.’” At dusk, Mariel takes a Combi out
sixteen stops from Quince, up 302
steps to a turquoise shack and a red rose
garden, and plants avocado seeds at her toes.
Poco a poco, se anda lejos.
El oro, cuando lo golpea, brilla.


I want to stand at 3,082 meters
On the overlook above Machu Picchu — close
Enough to the edge so my timid toes
Flirt with wild columbine and teeter

On white granite stones laid centuries ago.
Speak to me the way the Andes
Breathe cumulus clouds phthalo blue. Seek
Answers in the form of temples. Slow

Down time in the Room with Three Windows —
Hanan-Pacha: bless my fears with conviction.
Kay-Pacha: reject this earth’s mundane affliction.
Ukju-Pacha: watch my seedling-soul as it grows.

Move with me in cyclical certainty from ruin
To reverence, beyond what words can measure —
Even the old Peruvian proverb for treasure.
Our trials make us mountains among humans.
peter poet Mar 2015
Once there was a man in peru
Who dreamt he ate his shoe
Then woke at night
With such a fright
And found out it was true
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