Chicano Poet: Jose Marcial Guerrero

(The staff of the Xispas website know that without art and culture a people have nothing. Our arts section features everything from an art gallery to articles on music, poetry, dance, theater, and more. The Xispas website also features a lively poetry section, where professional and experienced Chicano poets as well as nonprofessional community poets present their visions. Here we offer a new poem by Jose Marcial Guerrero)

Priorities -by Jose Marcial Guerrero

On the April side of the year
We returned to the north
Embracing the fifth series
Of dislocated souls

We belong to the corporation
And one more year shall
Bring legal sponsorship
So HE tells us…

But my brother and I
Only dream of our little village
And the faces in Oaxaca
Shining with contented sweat
And their hands full of seed

We pray that walmart
And the government won’t
Rob anymore land from us
Our people and our ancestors
Cry with cold hunger
And the land begs like a little
Bird still in the nest