Latino – Yesenia Guerra

Birthright

Aug 25, 2015

America, citizen, community, family, generation, immigration, issues, Latino, life, poetry, political, racism, society, trump, undocumented, USA

Please give me another term because what I’m observing is best described as absurd I am first generation born and bred in the good ol’ U.S. of A. I’ll be quick to say Te amo Peru but it doesn’t stop my heart from beating red white and blue. Walls are built at the border to…

Mama

Sep 1, 2013

Haikus, Uncategorized

family, food, haikus, immigrant, Latino, love, mother, poetry, relationships, soup, spanish, writing

Sopa caliente Vegetales y carne Amor suspiro Warm vegetable soup Meat chunks float trasnational Love among oceans

Lily Peruana

May 17, 2013

Verse

American, identity, Latino, Peru, poetry, spanglish, writing

Flower war my name for those who can’t speak Español Peruana roots developed in American ground Spanglish is my sound Bonita flor growing under Inti sol one taste of mi amor Leaves to crave more Delicate y calmada Until mistreated then You can drown In Mar Brava Only truths to be…