I am honoured and humbled to have my poem «Shadows of New York,» which was published in April 2023 in Spillwords, nominated for publication of the month and I ask you, humbly, to help this poem get there. Thank you so much!
And you can check out the poem here, as well as my other poems on Spillwords…
Una plaza en El Carmen, el casco antiguo de Valencia donde hay un bar con una excelente terraza para el tapeo, tardeo o chachaleo… Pero el vídeo tiene mucho mas de nuestra ciudad…
A plaza in the El Carmen (Old City) district of Valencia where there is a real cool bar with a great terrace for tapas, late conversations and lots of chatting…But the video shows a lot more of our city.
Bueno, Coconut Grove no tiene playas aunque si costas muy bonitas, la foto es de Miami Beach, pero estuve destacado en una mini-base de Coconut Grove un tiempo cuando fui de las reservas de la Guardia Costera de EEUU.
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Well, Coconut Grove does not have a beach, although it does have a beautiful and interesting shoreline, this photo is from Miami Beach. I was assigned to a mini-station in Coconut Grove when I served as a reserve officer for the US Coast Guard…
(Foto/Photo Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)
Toques urbanos… la arquitectura como arte que embellece y que funciona…
Urban touches… Architecture as art that beautifies and that functions…
(Foto/Photo Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)
Estar rodeado de belleza es estar rodeado de Dios, de ideas brillantes, de sabiduría…
To be surrounded with beauty is to be surrounded by God, by brilliant ideas, by wisdom…
(Foto/Photo Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)
El comenzar la tarde, especialmente en primavera, en una terraza, en tu bar favorito, o en cualquiera donde te traten bien y te den buen trago y olivitas, es un deleite urbano necesario y placentero…
To start the evening off, especially in spring, in a terrace bar, your favourite bar, or any other one that treats you well and where you get good drinks and olives, is an urban delight needed and pleasurable…
(Foto/Photo Francisco Bravo Cabrera/Derechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)
La ciudad es como un cuadro que se va realizando poco a poco, y que crece con el aliento de la gente que busca, pierde, gana y disfruta y que también esperan y andan, pero donde siempre hay movimiento, aunque sea del aire…
The city is like a painting that grows slowly and little by little and which sometimes grows with the breath of those who search, who lose, who win and who enjoy… and also wait and walk, because there is always movement, even if it is only the wind…
And just as shameful as racism is the president of a country accusing Spain of racism. Ultra-Leftist (Communist) president of Brasil, Lula da Silva has stated that Spain is fascist (a movement that no longer exists) and racist. This is just as intolerable as what happened in Mestalla to Vinicius.