Saturday, December 2, 2017

TAMALE DAY (Day #22 "_____Day")

My mother-in-law and me. Miss her so much.


I'm not sure how she did it
All those tamales in one
Or two days, meat simmering
On the stove, mixing masa,
Wrapping them in the corn husks...
It was a labor of love.


Caren E. Salas

WALL (Day #21 Construstion/Deconstruction poem)


Brick by brick he built a wall
Trying to hide his heart
Never realizing love
Would break it all apart.


Caren E. Salas

SHINING IN THE DARK (Day #20 What I Learned)

Nothing is certain
There's no guarantee, that life
Is going to give you
All the things you dreamed about
No matter how hard you try.

One day you might wake
To find everything you love
All that you worked for
Dissolve into nothingness
It's then that you must decide

You can just give up
And choose to wallow and whine
Or you can go on
Because who knows what bright star
May start shining in the dark?


Caren E. Salas




photo: nationalgeographic.com