Puerto Rico

El Coqui
The Coqui is a very small frog native of Puerto Rico. He can't live in any other country.

I am dedicating this Spanish poetry to my family and friends from Puerto Rico. This poem expresses my travels in Puerto Rico when I was a teenager.

From my book Abnormal Footprint
Araqua Coqui

Le voy a contar la historia
de un Cubano-Borincano, que
en Capparra el vivia y en la
Mistral estudiaba

Al Coqui yo lo mire, tocando la
flauta un dia, y era la amiga mia
que le daba un contra pie.

Luego de ahi me aleje con una
sonrisa plaera, y era la madriguera
de los montes de Guaynavo. Oscuro y
muy abrumado hasta Guayama llegue.

Me comi los chicarrones y los mondoguitos
fritos y gritando "Hay Bandido," en
Bayamon me pare. Luego me desperte con la
musica guajira y accordandome de Cuba,
hasta una plena me baile.

Por las Patronlaes me pase, y
mirando aquel ambiente,
me tome un MAVI caliente y
a Guayama regresse.

Caballero que sonrisa cuando
el Cogui miraba, y tomando
piraguita hasta Santurce llegue.

Para terminar la fiesta y
mi gira Borincana. Grite
con mucha gana, tu libertad
la extrane.

En el lechero me fui, pensando
yo en Guarbo y terminando asi
la historia del Cubano-Borincano.

[signature]
Luis Du Perez W33937
NCCI - Gardner
P.O. Box 466
Gardner, MA 014440

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From my book Abnormal Footprint
My Ancestry_Mix

My loving Cubans. I am searching for myself and my roots have been found in the rivers and on the mountains in the island of Cuba. Taino Indians and African start send the splendor like the brain and sun, the mixture of culture is given me a great treasure of earth.

My beautiful Herona,
Without a country, I am American,
my ancestries are many, I am sharing the
blood of a prison subculture
Not only the pilgrims or Puritans, each Americas.

I am a debtor prisoner, Oglethorpe
was my father and I became the
founder of a wild land, my blood is
not only with the native of Cuban
but I am the son of Savannah Georgia.

I never was recognized.
My Ancestry_Mix is like GOD gave the
birds the power of flight.
I am your own roots because God made
me a human being, a member of your own family
San Feo de Paula, my Mother Land
My Ancestry_Mix
My blood and roots are in you and me
look at the mountains and touch me
on the rivers and watching me at the
SUNRISE.

My Ancestry_Mix is in you!
Luis Perez W33937