Taina+Rosario

**// And the flash of my teeth, //** **// The swing in my waist, //** **// And the joy in my feet. //**  - ** Maya Angelou **
 * // It's the fire in my eyes, //**

**// On this page you will find a few poems that I have written, one that I recorded, a picture to go with my words and a poet that I researched and dug deeply into their poetry. //**

** Carilda Oliver Labra- ** Carilda Oliver Labra was a Cuban woman born in Matanzas in 1924. She studied law at the University of Havana. She was adept at painting, drawing, and sculpting. She was known as one of the most influential Cuban poets. She mainly focused on the aspects of love, women roles in society and herself. As I read her poetry I felt myself being draw in by her similar way of writing. I was able to feel the emotions she put within her story telling. In most of the poems I read by Carilda I realized that she used suggestive language that enticed the reader to read more. For example in her poem 'I go crazy, my love, I go crazy' she wrote:

** I go crazy, my love, I go crazy ** ** When slowly I go into your mouth; ** ** And almost without wanting, almost for nothing, ** ** I touch you with the tip of my breast. **

She used a bit of one-worded lines, which I believe are some of the most powerful. They give of a sense of not being able to express the feeling in multiple worlds. Also within her distinct type of poetry she uses a bit of visualization. But more the often she used comparison of her feeling to objects, which has you looking at that object differently in the future, and helps the poem stick in you mind. After reading Carilda’s poetry, I felt that they truly struck a cord in my heart and my mind. Her poetry has given me a new outlook on my own and has inspired me to write more.

** My poetry- ** My poetry is what I feel. I build up emotions often and the only way I know to release them is to write them down. I am the type of person that doesn’t like bothering others with my problems. After writing a poem I reread them often, but I never had the feeling of wanting to correct or change them. I feel that the first time I write something is the true masterpiece, its raw, full of the pure and fresh emotion, and shouldn’t be changed. I paint my heart and soul into my poetry. I let every thing out when I write. For example a quote from a poem I wrote was:

** Piece by piece my heart ** ** Frozen over with the ** ** Love I thought ** ** That’s what it was ** ** But love is shared not ** ** Just taken with nothing ** ** Returned ** ** So what were you? ** ** Returning to me ** ** Nothing, that’s what. **

I spill my tears on the page, I let the rays of my smile shine through them, and I rip a whole into the page as I angry push the pen on it. If my poetry isn’t filled with emotion, then either I didn’t write it, or I was forced to be precise. Poetry isn’t precise, you can’t never fully say I will write a poem this day about this subject because you told be. Poetry is free, a spur of the moment type of thing. When I write my poetry it can differ from others I have written. I might feel like rhyming one day, and decide not to the next. Though it is a mystery to myself, I tend to have a very loving heart, but I skeptical mind that has witnessed too much. So when I look at my poetry I realize that most of it is about love, but not the happy purely blissful type of live. I feel like I get into the deeper side of love, the arguments, the peacemaking, and the indecisiveness that is in all of us. I don’t know what event caused me to start writing poetry, but I never want to stop, even if it is only a hobby.



** Memory Poem - **  ** Sins of Puppy Love **  I thought it was **love**  ** Love ** at first sight  ** Love ** of a friend Just **love**  I wrote a letter Words on a page The smell of ink <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Filled the room <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I **tried** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I **tried** when I shouldn't <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Tried ** to bare my soul <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">To tell him how I felt <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">To bad <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I was **caught** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Caught ** in the act <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Caught ** to soon <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">My mother <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Ripped ** the letter <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Ripped ** my heart <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Ripped ** my hope <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I **cried** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Cried ** for my creativity <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Cried ** in my room <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I wanted the thrill of love <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">To bad I was not ready of the pain <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Of **PUPPY LOVE** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">

** Ode to- **

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Skull Necklace ** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Shining in the florescent light <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Like the moon off of the sea. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">In the dark of night <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Glittering in your <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Tarnished color, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Iron, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Metallic like. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Made by fire bending <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Your arms <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Into twisted forms <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Turing you around <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Upside down <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">And backwards. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The empty spaces <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">On your face <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Give me life, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Creativity, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Individuality. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Your thinly coiled chain <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Cuts into <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">My skin. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Pierce me <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">With the freedom <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I crave. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Your were given to me <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">When I aged enough. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You represented <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">My maturity. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You were <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The symbol I needed <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I remember the <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Bones that framed <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The outside of <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Your face. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Your were me <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">And I was <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Alive again. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Never to feel <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The cold <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Silence <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">That followed me <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Again. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You sit on your perch <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Above my breast, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">And I feel <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The heavy weight <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You bring. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Or the cold <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">As the wind <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Hangs on your curves. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Matching with the <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Darkness that clothes me, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Like the night shades <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The child-like world. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">My ode is to you: <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You who are not living, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Yet give life to others. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You who shines, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Though you have no light. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You who is an accessory, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Yet speak on your own. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Chalkboard; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">You who is my favorite <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Skull necklace. ** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">

** Riff Poem – line from Naomi Shihab Nye **

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Deciding Fate ** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Love <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The thing the lets us <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Live and breathe. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Love is <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Wonderful, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Desire filled, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Heart-ache, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Tears on a pillow, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Words in a diary, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">A symbolized ring <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I do and don’t love you, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Isn’t that happiness? <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I never want to minus you. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">But times <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I never want to see you <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Again <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Can you not be, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Satisfied <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">With my indecisiveness <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">I do not know <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Whether to <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Live <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Love <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Die <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Or hate <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">But I do know that <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">What ever I do you will <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Haunt me <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">In my dreams <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The feel of your skin will <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Linger in my mind <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">And I will never escape <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">The deep seas <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">That are your eyes.

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/%20ENGLISH/my%20poem.mp3?w=0c4ac396

** I Was Raised By- **

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** A Dysfunctional Family ** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I was raised by <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> The influence of  <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Liquor drinking <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Stuff smoking <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Living by the seat of my pants <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Boriqua” (Puerto Rican) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> People <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Some love to laugh <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Hate to work <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Maybe I’ll go tomorrow <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Calmate” (Calm down) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> People <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Tall, tanned, talented <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Full of freedom <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Until the bills come <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Have to <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Do what I gotta do” <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> People <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Raised in the midst <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Of my family <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “La familia Brown y Rosario” <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Some <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Got so many baby daddy’s <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Baby making <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Heavy handed <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Full figured <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Ven aquí” (Come here) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Women <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Those lay down for a nap <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Don’t wake for hours <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Lazy <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> But hard working <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “dejáme quieto” (Leave me Alone) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Men <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I lived with these <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> People <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Through the deaths <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> And the births of <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> New lives <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> My family <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> These <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Locos” (Crazies) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> But they were a <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “Te Amo niña” (I love you, girl) <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> And <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> “I got your back” <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Type of dysfunctional family <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">

** Iambic Pentameter- **

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> ** Love, Lust, Death ** <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> If you compare me to the summer’s eve <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I shall sit here wondering. What is wrong? <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> You look into my eyes, full of passion, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Yet I sit here singing my lonely song. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> The rain outside my window brings me life, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> The moon sitting in its perch sings to me. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Your love smothers me gently though the night. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I wish that you would simply let me breath. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Though every person wishes for true love, <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> There may be time when it is merely lust. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> You lusted after my heart through out time <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> You squeeze it too hard, and now it is dust. <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Now, please, leave me here alone in my bed <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> As I relive the memories in my head.

<span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"> ** Thank you for taking your time to read my page. **

<span style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"> ** // Sincerely, Taina Rosario  // **