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Jose Marti
Member

since 2000-07-01

Posts 374
washing DC

0 posted 2000-07-17 01:49 AM

My search for a home
brought me one day,
to the southern most part
of Miami Beach.

There we found a lovely adobe house
mediteranean style,
Spanish tiles,
and a festive pink design.

I wondered why,
for all of it's splendor,
It had gone three years
with no buyers,
and no vendors.

I advance ito the house,
I feel a shiver up my spine,
and a draft through my soul.

I can almost hear the deceased spirits,
warning me,
threatening me,
pushing me back at all odds.

Intricate details of the house
now come into naked view.
All of it awakens the carribean in me.
I am who I am,
and I be who I be.
unfocused eyes see nothing,
but me, I know what I see.

A festive pink scheme,
strange beautiful plants,
Huge conch shells
along an outer adobe wall
Odly scibbled Hatian words,
and most ominous of all,
small portraits of black men,
Of Papa This, or Papa That

The sound of a thousand African drums,
rushes through my ears,
without anybody playing,
There's actually no one here.

Me,
with my roots firmly in the Carribean,
see this for exactly what it is.
So I turn and leave
without much ado,
for I know now what this is
and that this be a house of Voodou.

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Chel
Senior Member

since 2000-07-01

Posts 511
Baltimore, MD, USA

1 posted 2000-07-17 08:53 AM

Wow, very interesting. Sounds very familar. Well this was very well written. Keep up the good work.

Chel

"True friends stab you in the front"
"Always do your best, you will always succeed"

LoveBug

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Member Elite

since 2000-01-08

Posts 4697

2 posted 2000-07-17 12:23 PM

Wow... it's amazing how you can always feel the roots of your heritage. You describe it well.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde
"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief" -Shakespea

Isabel Galaxia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-18

Posts 733

3 posted 2000-07-17 12:41 PM

Wow....very good. Nice job describing the house, very detailed....as always keep up the good work
Bel

Linzi
Junior Member

since 2000-07-08

Posts 35
Pennsylvania, USA

4 posted 2000-07-17 01:46 PM

Again, excellent descriptions!! I could see myself standing in the house! I love this one!

~*~Linzi~*~

"Ignore reality; there's nothing you can do about it" ~ Natalie Imbruglia

The_Driven
Member

since 2000-07-11

Posts 60

5 posted 2000-07-18 12:45 PM

nice poem. I enjoyed reading it, and well, keep up the writing. Nice job!

Jose Marti
Member

since 2000-07-01

Posts 374
washing DC

6 posted 2000-07-18 12:26 PM

Thanks everybody for reading my poem. I'm glad you all liked it. Linzi I'm glad you liked the descriptions.

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

7 posted 2007-12-02 12:55 PM

Enjoyed

ARCTIC WIND

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