Potential Titles: ire'ne lara silva

[somethingdarker]

we are taught the beauty of the rose - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

the serenity of the soft and the still - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

the austerity of silver stars in a winter sky - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

the soaring of voices to untouchable heights - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

the beauty of the spinning knife catching the light - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

catching the light of the day that will never repeat - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

we may never speak the beauty we saw - ire'ne lara silva "el abanico" [Poetry April 2025]

fear will never make you stronger - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

when the body does not obey - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

the constant battle of necessity versus necessity - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

the choices we make out of fear - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

blood turned against itself - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

the enemy everywhere within and without - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

a war always claims casualties - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

the first part of the dream is learning to listen - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

until you are the one writing the song - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

learning love one utterance at a time - ire'ne lara silva "blood.sugar.canto"

the world will not end if i love who i love - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"

if i say this place belongs to me too - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"

the world will not end if i live - ire'ne lara silva "machetona"

carved me from the old mesquite that stretched impossibly - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"

laughing as he changed the lyrics about Pancho Villa - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"

and makes my name a true name - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"

born of struggling and dreaming and training - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

becoming one body one heart one mind one spirit - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

crossed and recrossed and uncrossed and unmade borders - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

things in life that can't be renounced - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

surrendering has never been an option - ire'ne lara silva "lo nuestro"

didn't have time for ribbons or petticoats - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

and paid the price of not learning - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

we taught each other when we did not know - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

men rewrite history with impunity - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

blood spilt on the ground does not know how to be silent - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

in this life in the afterlife or the life before the stories - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

the living can be silenced the dead cannot - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"


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