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Ruben M. Leal

Your Smile

It’s my wife and I’s ten year anniversary. I wrote short poem for her expressing my love for her:

Oct 23, 2021

Your Smile

Oct 23, 2021

Ode To Neruda

My family and I took a Sunday stroll in Placerville, California. I walked in the used bookstore and found a couple of poetry books by Pablo…

Oct 19, 2021

Ode To Neruda

Oct 19, 2021

Those Who Sit and Watch

We’ve recently had some catastrophic wildfires in California including the Dixie fire that continues to burn. These wildfires pose a risk…

Oct 8, 2021

Those Who Sit and Watch

Oct 8, 2021

I Drank from the Nile

I drank from the Nile, The chalice of remembrance. Quenching, since dawn’s countinance Smiled upon the beauty of its people.

Aug 10, 2021

I Drank from the Nile

Aug 10, 2021

The Old Virgin Forest

To my loving Mother Terry Scott:

Jul 22, 2021

The Old Virgin Forest

Jul 22, 2021

Colonia

The Colonia had left my limbs and body. Remembering that past is like a mystical torso, Now a stranger, it makes itself at home. Its…

Jul 17, 2021

Colonia

Jul 17, 2021

Ode To Walt Whitman

Dear Walt, sing me the song of myself; Your words, more delicious than any. Sitting in the warm comfort of our home, My son melds into my…

Mar 13, 2021

Ode To Walt Whitman

Mar 13, 2021

I AM

I am a shark roving the high seas; An apex predator searching for its prey. My dorsal fin is formed by my small hands Wrinkled by the…

Mar 7, 2021

I AM

Mar 7, 2021

A Blessing for Cairo

Take me back to Cairo, Where the adhan warms the heart Enveloping the soul like a warm robe By a fireplace that kindles the spirit — The…

Feb 21, 2021

A Blessing for Cairo

Feb 21, 2021

Tribute to Selena

A Tejano diva preternatural, A spring flower she had bloomed, Inimitable buds full and bursting, Corollas full of reds and blues.

Jan 4, 2021

Tribute to Selena

Jan 4, 2021

Ruben M. Leal

Ruben M. Leal

Poet, bon vivant, and family man. A graduate of Texas A&M University. As a boy, he found the love of verse in reading Baxter Black’s cowboy poetry.

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