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MaryJane Doe May 2014
Hello

My Name

   It's Antonio
Montoya

   You killed my father

Prepare to die

     I say to the bottle

And you ask

     Why?

Have you not seen
  The Princess Bride!?

The for finged man
Killed his father!
  You ask me
  What's your point?

    I say

        It was Jose!

Who killed dear old dad

  As I drink from the bottle
       Your expression turns sad
& you pour out the rest
    Saying
  That's to bad
Mr Montoya
I want to know
Did you discover the great design of your art in the puffs of clouds
hanging
lazily in the sky
In the eyes of stars
did you push back the deafening city lights to hear the chords in your latest song?
How is it that you find trinkets of brilliance like clovers in a field?
I need to know where you felt the lines of your latest poem?
Did you harvest them like peaches from the purple orange sunset?
Can you lead me to where hearts have unfolded
minds are open
spirits are free
like oceans after a storm
I want to meet the muses that live between the pages of your notebooks
wrap my mind in your leaves
like fresh towels from the dryer
did you chase them towards horizons unfounded
did you hear your music in bellowing rainstorms
The chords in the wind and thunder shaking your spinal chord
What divine being hand delivered your brilliance from cloud nine?
Sincerely,
Madame Nanacakes
Las piquetas de los gallos
cavan buscando la aurora,
cuando por el monte oscuro
baja Soledad Montoya.
Cobre amarillo, su carne,
huele a caballo y a sombra.
Yunques ahumados sus pechos,
gimen canciones redondas.
Soledad, ¿por quién preguntas
sin compaña y a estas horas?
Pregunte por quien pregunte,
dime: ¿a ti qué se te importa?
Vengo a buscar lo que busco,
mi alegría y mi persona.
Soledad de mis pesares,
caballo que se desboca,
al fin encuentra la mar
y se lo tragan las olas.
No me recuerdes el mar,
que la pena negra, brota
en las tierras de aceituna
bajo el rumor de las hojas.
¡Soledad, qué pena tienes!
¡Qué pena tan lastimosa!
Lloras zumo de limón
agrio de espera y de boca.
¡Qué pena tan grande! Corro
mi casa como una loca,
mis dos trenzas por el suelo,
de la cocina a la alcoba.
¡Qué pena! Me estoy poniendo
de azabache carne y ropa.
¡Ay, mis camisas de hilo!
¡Ay, mis muslos de amapola!
Soledad: lava tu cuerpo
con agua de las alondras,
y deja tu corazón
en paz, Soledad Montoya.

Por abajo canta el río:
volante de cielo y hojas.
Con flores de calabaza,
la nueva luz se corona.
¡Oh pena de los gitanos!
Pena limpia y siempre sola.
¡Oh pena de cauce oculto
y madrugada remota!
MMV Abad Jul 2011
Feel my spirit,
obsessive and fiery.
It’s unrestrained,
even with your cruelty.

I have been blessed,
God inhabits within me.
Shan’t be conquered,
your attack will be futile.

Eternally,
my fire will ceaselessly burn.
Tongues won’t be vile,
for I stay deaf with passion.

©MMV Abad as Phoenix  Montoya @ June 29, 2011
'Let no one hold us down.'
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2020
He woke and felt the fell
Of dark not day

I wake and wonder
What more there is to say

My mind too has mountains
Hey, hey, hey

May we climb Cliffs of Insanity
With Andre

To reach the top alive
For this I humbly pray
Babatunde Raimi Mar 2020
You are the soul reason
We believe in selfless service
At the expense of your lives
You risked all to save ours
Like the Mesaiah, you laid it down
The world thanks you

You took the hippocratic oath
Swore by all the Greek gods
And the only Uncreated Creator
To preserve the destiny of mankind
In the face of a pandemic caller Covid-19
Even of it takes your life
Thank you!

While we quarantine and pray
Asking forgiveness for sins untold
You solemnly swore to defend our nation
To serve her with all your might
Against all foreign and domestic enemies
But today, it is a biological war we fight
Thank you to all military and para-military

Show me a Nurse in white
I'll show you a person who left hers
To ensure you are not plagued
Fatigued, overworked, but resolute
You took the Nigthingalish oath
To lay down your life if need be
Thank you!

Now you all know the magnitude of her sacrifice
When she and her team stopped Ebola
She should be accorded a national honour
Monuments and schools should carry her name
That the blood of our heroes past be remembered
And their sacrifices that we may live

The world, stopped by one virus
The pendulum suddenly stopped swinging
The sun refused to rise from the east
And set from the west, but spins northward
Right now, say a prayer for the world
That this plague may pass away
Lord, we are sorry, please heal our land

Image Credit: Mark Kevin Montoya, Philiphines
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2020
Like former New York Governor Mario Cuomo
I have old-fashioned Catholic guilt

Like Inigo Montoya
I would stick in Count Rugen the sword to the hilt

However,

I have not had *** with 20,000 different women
Like Chamberlain (Wilt the Stilt)

And if the Big One ever shakes Seattle
I hope and pray it will be beautifully rebuilt

— The End —