BIO
El Davíd is a Nuyorican Poet whose works appear in 2011 “Me no Habla with Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry”- Emanuel Xavier, & 2008 “Bandanna Republic” - Luis Reyes & Bruce George. He is the 2015 Taino Awards Poet of the Year & author of “Hip Hop Made” “The Outlaw of Poetry” and “Outbursts of Horror” with Manuel A. Melendez. El was a featured performer at the Full Circle Ensemble’s two sold out shows: “Page to the Stage” and “Misconceptions.” He hosted the “Smokin’ Word Open Mic Series” in the Bronx NY and has been the featured artist at many venues in the Tri-State, including the Nuyorican Poets Café and Bowery Poetry Club.
Esperanza is anxious.
Impatiently waiting for revolution
without lifting fist or sword,
expecting love to eradicate hate
and spread like corojo
over blood stained Eshus.
Dodges bullets with Azabache,
La mano negra poderosa.
Pinned with the eyes of Lucia
that block the evil eye
from the innocent.
Orchestrates change
through Yoruba Oriki,
dancing for Orishas in la sala
to ritmos Africano.
Bata, chekere, cowbell,
resonating within the room.
Agogo bells wake spirits
that mount open cabezas,
riding full saddle in home grown misas
where palmas whip darkness away
from tainted flesh.
Hosts Spanglish gatherings
plucking boiled fowl.
Joyous laughter hand in hand
with the seriousness
of preparing foods for the "Gods."
Heeds messages
from whispering muertos
over unknowing heads.
Works revolution
at Oloricha's Ochas,
where Rican and Dominican cuisines
raise sofrito fantasmas that float
through hot tenement apartments,
enticing Iyawos and family
of La Regla.
Dresses thrones with offerings;
altars fit for Kings and Queens.
Concerned but confident
that the works will spark change,
like the winds of Oya.
Speaks in foreign tongue,
when the medium hat is worn.
Lives in a humble abode,
where streets are paved
with drugs, guns,
litter and chalk outlines.
Liquor stores hustle for souls.
She soul searches liquor stores.
Rum and aguardiente
sprayed past sacred lips.
Esperanza seeks revolution.
Finds revolution daily.
Tastes it in ebbos to Oshun.
There will be no crucifixion,
just revolution.
Constant revolution.
Esperanza rolls no dice,
only leaps of spiritual faith,
earth and universal ashé
The paradigm of revolution.