Category Archives: Poems by Licet Ariza

Pam’s Love Letter

(Written for Pam…Sept. 2009) To find comfort, I must go deep, back, within, Now that I am without. I miss my partner. The fierce lion, the gentle brogue. Companion, lover, opponent, brick wall. You were there … there … there

Pam’s Love Letter

(Written for Pam…Sept. 2009) To find comfort, I must go deep, back, within, Now that I am without. I miss my partner. The fierce lion, the gentle brogue. Companion, lover, opponent, brick wall. You were there … there … there

Dime Mami (Poem by me for my mother, written Oct. 2008)

Dime, Mami mia. Dime de sus desenganos y de su alegria. Dime de cuando se rompio su corazon por la primera vez, la segunda vez, todas las veces. Y dime de cuando sintio un amor completo, puro, sin dolor. Dime

Dime Mami (Poem by me for my mother, written Oct. 2008)

Dime, Mami mia. Dime de sus desenganos y de su alegria. Dime de cuando se rompio su corazon por la primera vez, la segunda vez, todas las veces. Y dime de cuando sintio un amor completo, puro, sin dolor. Dime

In The Kindness (Poem by Yours Truly)

(Something I wrote in Dec. 2011… I call it a poem though I’m not sure the term really fits) ******** They say people live in us. Our souls, our hearts, our thoughts are somehow infused with all the connections we

In The Kindness (Poem by Yours Truly)

(Something I wrote in Dec. 2011… I call it a poem though I’m not sure the term really fits) ******** They say people live in us. Our souls, our hearts, our thoughts are somehow infused with all the connections we

I AM (Poem by Yours Truly, Written Oct. 2009)

I AM …. I am an island baby…not of steel drums or calypso music, But of iron-willed women with swaying hips, and lips that glean with sunshine and open up to rattle in my mother tongue. I am a ghetto

I AM (Poem by Yours Truly, Written Oct. 2009)

I AM …. I am an island baby…not of steel drums or calypso music, But of iron-willed women with swaying hips, and lips that glean with sunshine and open up to rattle in my mother tongue. I am a ghetto