MIAMI: POETRY BY KARINA GARCIA

Miami

Some call her "The Magic City"

Some say she's the "City of Lights"

I'd say that's more like downtown at night.

It's a City that never sleeps

There's usually always someplace open to eat

She's filled with so many beautiful sights

From her international airport depart many flights

As Miami is the only connection between the U.S. and many nations.

So many cultures intertwined

Language barriers cause strangers to collide

It's how we struggle to survive

Its culture is what keeps our City alive

There are two lines that come to mind that when said strangers unwind as it makes no difference what language you speak Miami they define:

"Welcome to Miami" and "I Love U Miami" the first made famous by Will Smith (a famous American Hollywood star) and the latter by Livan Hernandez (a Cuban born baseball player) when he came to play baseball for the Marlins.

Miami

She's been my only home

Her City Streets I've Roamed

Sometimes Alone

I've wanted to leave her for some time and now she is the subject of this rhyme

As love for her I don't deny after all she is the City of my conception & my birth.

From Hialeah to Miami Lakes,

Miami Springs to Miami Shores,

Sweetwater to Westchester

South Miami to West Kendall

Coral Gables to Coconut Grove

Homestead to Cutler Ridge

All the way to the Biscayne Bridge

So many more little cities to mention wanting to have their own identity

But in reality it's Miami all the same and yes that includes you the residents of Key Biscayne

Continuously changing at rapid speeds it’s how we residents sometimes find it hard to leave. However for me I say the more things change the more they really stay the same.

Watching the sunrise & the sunset are her sights you never forget many Nights & Mornings I don't regret.

As I travel through the city's streets taking in all of the beautiful Miami beats I move my feet to the sounds and rhythms and feel the city’s hypnotisms. A city so methodical with its people trying to be so logical, perhaps it’s biological but take the time to read the daily periodical. A city filled with so much art, poetry, music, film and everything your heart can desire yet so very few are conscious and aware enough to admire. Take a minute and stop and smell the flowers it’ll fulfill your days every hour.

Miami

As beautiful as you are

Now here we are

Just you and me and maybe the sound of the rain and the trees

I love you as you love me as with you I’ve endured and shared many scars

Some which have yet to heal as they’re not the kind that can be healed by just sharing a drink at the bar

I’ve imagined loving you from afar even with as beautiful as you are

The number 3 has been good to you and me but it’s also come with toxicity it exists in every City but lately it’s become less pretty I’m starting to feel some sort of pity

Approaching 33 as this year I will be this toxicity is closing in on me to the point where I can’t breathe and the only cure may be to break free of this bond we share you and me my City.

Miami

I think the time’s approaching where it’s time for me to leave as there are dreams I must achieve

It’s not you I want to leave it’s your toxicity that’s killing me no matter what others perceive

I know I must one day leave

Next year I don’t know where I’ll be but Miami you’ll always be home to me.

From Hialeah to Miami Lakes,

Miami Springs to Miami Shores,

Sweetwater to Westchester

South Miami to West Kendall

Coral Gables to Coconut Grove

Homestead to Cutler Ridge

All the way to the Biscayne Bridge

So many more little cities to mention wanting to have their own identity

But in reality it's Miami all the same and yes that includes you the residents of Key Biscayne

TO WRITE AGAIN TO COMPLETION - SUCH A RUSH

OK SO APPROXIMATELY 3 WEEKS AGO WAS THE LAST TIME I WORKED ON THIS PIECE I WAS WRITING ENTITLED "MIAMI" I HAD BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR A WHILE BUT LEFT IT ALONE FOR ALL THIS TIME AS I THOUGHT IT NEEDED MORE AND SOME TWEAKING OF SORTS. US WRITERS AND CREATIVES ALWAYS THINK OUR WORK NEEDS MORE OR A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA LIKE A JE NE SAIS QUOI OR SOMETHING UNTIL MUCH LATER AFTER IT'S DONE THAT WE ARE HAPPY WITH IT. SO LYING HERE NOT FEELING SO WELL AND LISTENING TO THE RAIN THESE LINES STARTED TO RHYME IN MY HEAD AND I THOUGHT OK I'LL REMEMBER LATER AND THEY'LL WORK FOR MY MIAMI PIECE, BUT THEN I JUMPED UP FOUND A PIECE OF PAPER WROTE THEM DOWN AND THEN PIECED IT TOGETHER WITH THE REST OF MY "MIAMI" PIECE AND MAY HAVE JUST SUDDENLY FINISHED MY PIECE. PERHAPS IT'S THE FULL MOON, THE ANNIVERSARY OF WORDS AND WINE OR JUST ALL THINGS COMBINED, BUT IT JUST FELT GOOD TO WRITE AGAIN TO SOME COMPLETION.

Waiting

While I'm waiting on the world to change, I'll do my part but you need to do yours too! Live, Love, Breathe! Peace, Art & Music! Without Love We'd have Nothing. Love is the essence of our being and all we need is just a little Patience.
 ~ Karina Garcia ~

Selfless vs Selfish

It's time for me to take care of me and if taking care of you fits in alongside my plans then you can join me in this ride of life. This isn't me being selfish as I've always been a pretty selfless person this is me just learning to be selfless with those that are worth fighting and hurting for and simply take care of me for a change.

♥ Crazy Love ♥

♥ I think the crazier we are the more love we have to share & it comes right back to us in the same way, it may be crazy love but love is only as crazy as the ones you love! ♥
~ Karina Garcia ~

Wishing

Wishes you looked at me & saw me the way u once did. It wasn't too long ago but it feels like forever somehow. You're the closest to heaven that I've ever been & I don't wanna give up right now as you see the colors in me like no one else & behind your dark glasses you're something else but there's still much more to see & share.

The Little Things

It's the little things that matter although sometimes both people aren't paying the same attention or putting much importance or emphasis in certain small details for some people like me it's those little things that make great memories & build friendships

Missing

Missing

what we had and what we could of had

Missing

our connection 
although we still have one
 it's not the same anymore 

don't know if it ever will be

Maybe One Day!

You make it so hard to have it all as we both want the same thing so what are you afraid of.

Missing

Defined: Poem By: Karina Garcia

Defined
No longer having an open mind
You say this is your way of being kind
To not mess with my mind
However I wish we could rewind
I liked it more when we both had open minds
It made it easier to unwind & just enjoy the time

I'd start fresh from the beginning when were both winning
There was more to look forward to but now that too you have put behind
That which was still a mystery but now that part of us could just be history
Now instead there are too many restrictions
Based on these set definitions and too many conditions

Defined
I prefer things undefined
I like things intertwined
At least until the right time
Instead I feel like you tossed me a line
To free yourself from your own mind
Perhaps that is you being kind
But instead it messed with my mind

Let's together hit rewind
It's not as if we've taken up too much of each other's time
Now I'm just writing a rhyme
Passing the time 
Wondering why?
Yet I'd rather be intertwined together body, mind & soul
Our bodies tangled together
Discovering one another's pleasures as your kisses for me were a treasure.
Instead you took a drastic measure & took away the pleasure
Making our friendship more defined & avoiding the risks of what could grow
If you continued to go with the flow & just take it slow.

Perhaps I'm too free spirited
Your views & perspectives limited
Needing more structure & taking more caution for emotions & friendships not to rupture
I take risks and go with my gut feeling that which I know is revealing as that's
what makes life worth living despite if there are any hurt feelings the
experience has more meaning that for which I'm less fearing perhaps I live my
life dreaming

Defined
No longer having an open mind
You say this is your way of being kind
To not mess with my mind
However I wish we could rewind
I liked it more when we both had open minds
It made it easier to unwind & just enjoy the time

Words and Wine- Acoustic Edition- Karina Garcia - Poetry Reading of Upward & Downward Spiral

This video was taken a while back by Jerry Oviedo at a Poetry Venue entitled Words & Wine which takes place in Miami at the American Legion on Wednesday Nights. Although the visual of me is rather dark the sound quality is excellent and it is me reading my poem entitled Upward & Downward Spiral! Enjoy!

Perplexed ~ By: Karina Garcia

Some days I feel as though I’ve been hexed

As these days all I feel is vexed

Like my life has been nothing but a wreck

The kind where you have to leave it all behind and say

What the heck? What are you going to throw at me next?

As there’s nothing that’s going to lay me to rest

I’ve survived many of life’s tests

These days I find myself perplexed by your actions

Surprised that in me they have yet to trigger an impulsive reaction

As those have been known to just start a chain reaction

The kind where in the end no one feels any satisfaction

Although at times they ignite our chemical reactions

For you my feelings have remained and never went away

Although lately some days I think I’m going insane

My heart has yet to stray

Although I want for us to be together some day

It’s perhaps time for my heart to stray and go another way

As it seems your heart needs help finding it’s way even if it’s from me it strays

I need peace and tranquility these days

Wherever your heart goes whether back to me or to the mystery of this whoever is she

Let me be unless you intend for us to become we

So my heart can be free and I can continue being me and the light again I can see

I may be somewhat masochistic in my ways

As I give in to your sadistic ways

With all the mind games that you play

I think about you and your ways and torture myself with thoughts of our better days

Wishing you’d of never strayed

Wondering why when with me you could of stayed and kept some promises we made 

These days again I find myself perplexed by your actions

Surprised they have yet in me to trigger an impulsive reaction

It’s possible that I’m just being masochistic

But must you really be so sadistic these days with all the things that you say

Or is that just part of your evil ways

Making it easier for you to in some way stay

Rather than just go your own way

So you can blame me for your unhappy days and your lazy ways

Even when I do everything to stay out of your way

So much I’ve kept myself away to the point I may have lost some friends along the way

But who is to say that wasn’t just an excuse for them to just stray and me betray 

You find a way to crawl under my skin and make me cringe

Without even the slightest glimpse nor the sight of you

In ways that although:

 I LOVE U I DESPISE YOU

Have you nothing better to do than make me miserable even without the sight of you?

It must make you feel better to leave me feeling under the weather

I seem to think it gives you pleasure

It’s as if you hold onto me like a pirates claimed treasure

As if your manliness is being measured by your resistance to giving me the pleasure of us enjoying being happy together or at least letting go of me forever

I am definitely to blame for letting you get under my skin and making me cringe

But you’re definitely sadistic despite me being somewhat masochistic

Self ~ By: Karina Garcia

Self
I analyze
Never seem to rationalize
Always feeling paralyzed
I didn't just realize
Myself I just always criticize
Which makes me fantasize of the goals I wish to realize and no longer feel paralyzed yet I continue to overanalyze

Self

Perhaps too analytical
Making me so self critical
Yet this is so typical me
It's the one constant that is me
Perhaps is how I'll always be
Wanting rationality to fit that which is my personality
Yet that's just not my reality

Self

Always searching for contentment
While holding on to my own self resentments
My mind is just relentless
Filled with scattered thoughts which I don't ever piece together  They seem to remain there forever

Self

I want to read you from the outside
Escape my own mind
Before it leads me to my own self demise
I know myself's perspective from both the inside and the outside Believe me I never lie
I'd rather die than let you see me cry

Self

Deep thoughts scattered
Nothing seems to matter
Yet everything makes my world seem shattered
Yet that to mine self should come as no surprise
As that is how I see my world through my own eyes
Eyes who often cry afraid of my own self demise

Self

I am too filled with pride that which I never hide
Letting all feelings rest aside that which I also never hide
You just will never see me cry
Not even if this is goodbye

Me ~ By: Karina Garcia

Me

I am me

This me I'll always be

Whoever that is she

That is me

I am free to be

Just not from whoever that is she

That is me

She holds me back from being truly free

From being all that is I want to be

Perhaps she'll set me free that me who won't let me be all that I can be

Together we can set our other halves free

Live in full harmony of that which is she; that is me wrapped up in one body, one mind and one soul.

We'll forget what we're told

We'll never grow old

Always remain bold

There are many things I've been told

Yet I've never let myself become completely sold

My longing to have someone to hold has at times made me vulnerable to ignore what I've been told

I've allowed myself to be sold

Thus letting myself be left in the cold just to have had a minute of warmth and someone to hold.

Me

I am me

This me I'll always be

Whoever that is she

That is me

I am free to be

Just not from whoever that is she

That is me

She holds me back from being truly free and leaves me open to all this vulnerability

It's time I take full responsibility

"I’m as Feminine as Can Be" By: Karina Garcia

I’m as feminine as can be

But when it comes to your love I don’t know what comes over me

It’s like I fall so hard immediately that I don’t even let you chase me

I don’t give you the chance to pursue me as you so admire femininity

I don’t give you time to miss me nor desire me the way you once did

When you look at me all I want is for you to kiss me so I kiss you

It’s as if I don’t know what else to do

But I know you want it to be you who take the lead in pursuing me

No matter how long we have or have not already been together as us

Don’t get me wrong I enjoy being courted and graciously escorted

I too enjoy being wined and dined it is always graciously divine

Yet why do I ignore it and always allow myself to go for it

Why must I be so blunt and straightforward for everything?

And not just let some things such as these remain a mystery to me

I’m as feminine as can be

But why don’t I have the patience to let you come and approach me

I know this is something that doesn’t let love be

As for you it takes away from your masculinity

And the desire to chase after all that is my femininity

What can I say? Can it be that I’m fire and always so filled with desire?

Or maybe it’s my sense of being kindred and free

Always just wanting to be me as its part of me to take a lead

Is it part of my creativity and the spontaneity of my being?

That forgets that you too have a sense of purpose and being

And that at times I need to slow down and enjoy what I’m feeling

I’m as feminine as can be

I need to learn that seeing is believing, acting is not all about reacting

I hope I can one day be free of these feelings inside of me

Those that make me lose sight of my femininity

Those that don’t always let love be as they invade your masculinity

I hope one day I can I have the patience to let you come and approach me

And fulfill your desire to chase after all that is me and my femininity

I hope to one day again let myself be courted and graciously escorted

I want to again allow you to wine and dine me and let myself feel free

I hope to not always be so blunt and straightforward for everything?

I hope to let some things such as these remain a mystery to me

I want it to be you who take the lead in pursuing me

I’m as feminine as can be

"YOU MY TRUE FRIEND" By: Karina Garcia

Your voice soothes me and your lyrics move me

Your smile is contagious and your spirit is outrageous

You say you are cold and distant

But to me you are warm and close

We are the same in many ways only I'm a girl and you are a boy

We are different yet the same, as what's in a name?

Our bond is like no other yet it wasn't too long ago that we didn’t even know one another

Up until not too long ago I only knew your name

Now you comfort my pain and our friendship isn't in vain

Your honesty with me is key and friends is what we'll be as you definitely relate very well to me

There was something about you the day we met that somehow I knew we would be friends one day

We met by chance not once but twice but suddenly we shared a vice for music and poetry

Immediately you called me a friend and I hope to share this friendship until the end

I feel your words in my heart and soul

They creep under my skin and give my life inspiration and deeper meaning

They usually cause butterflies in my stomach and many sentiments all at once

When they all come together I gain a deeper sense of understanding of art, poetry, music, life & love 

The only things I need in life to achieve the true pursuit of happiness

My friendship with you takes me back to my friendships of my youth

Where I could still be a girl in every single way and every single day

Yet the boys always asked me to come out and play and hang as if I was just one of the boys

Without the misconception that we’d be more than friends or that I’d be so prissy

Just like all the other missies afraid to scrape their knees rollerblading or riding bike

Afraid to break a nail if we took a hike, climbed a tree or jumped a fence instead we just let things be

Don’t get me wrong I was a feminine as can be only they just saw me for me and let me be

We saw right through our differences and got each other through the good times and the bad

We laughed together when we were happy and cried together when we were sad

We were like brothers and sisters and nothing or no one came between us

Now we are just all grown up yet still find time to say what’s up

I know we’ll be friends forever although I could see us together

We are free and kindred spirits sharing intellect, intelligence and artistic insight

Deeply connected synchronicity in time and space as our thoughts are intriguing, dark and complex

You share with me lyrical texts and it reminds me of what we like to call spiritual sex

Especially when your muse the rain too becomes my muse as it ignites my fuse

The rain turns on my desire I get inspired and become amused as words flow with every rain drop

I feel your presence when you’re not there and begin to smile as you so admire

Our bond is like no other yet it wasn't too long ago that we didn’t even know one another

I’d rather remain friends forever although I once thought I could see us together

"Responsibility is Knocking on My Door" By: Karina Garcia

Writing, Singing, Dancing,

Performing, Laughing, Loving,

Hugging, Caring, Sharing

This is what my life is in a nutshell now

Responsibilities are knocking

But I’m not answering the door

As when I think of them

I feel like I’m going to fall through the floor

I’m enjoying every moment

Whether Happy or Sad

Taking the Good with the Bad

As I’m living the life I never had

Not that it was ever so bad

Just these are the days I longed for in so many ways

And I hope they are here to stay

Art, Poetry & Music Surrounds Me

Creativity & Talent at its finest

All which were always part of my existence and so much of who I am

But when responsibility came knocking it was another me walking & talking

But now there’s so much more to me I’m finding as I continue unwinding

Creating new friendships which are binding

New interests which I am liking

Like when I was really into mountain biking

Continuously digging into my psyche

Trying hard to one day likely

Make this journey a permanent reality

Where my art & responsibility become one

And I can continue having fun

While living this dream which is what it now seems

Yet turning this lifestyle into a way to make a living

So I can continue giving and still enjoy the life I’m living

Without having to answer the door

Of the responsibilities which are now knocking

Because it would be who I am they’d be stopping

And once again another me walking and talking and ripping at the seams

Because it’s time for me to realize my dreams

And once again just simply be me

I want to be me the one I see

Me the one filled with hope ideas and creativity

Enjoying activities and floating with gravity

Yes this is my new reality

Finding my identity which was once lost

In the midst of society and expectations

None of which matters now so I sent her on a permanent vacation

This is me now on location living life like a vacation

Writing, Singing, Dancing,

Performing, Laughing, Loving,

Hugging, Caring, Sharing

This is what my life is in a nutshell now

And hopefully forever as it’s me I have finally found

Responsibilities are knocking but I’m not answering the door

As I’m not letting you make me fall through the floor

As my life holds too much more      

Which will one day lead to a better door

One on which you won’t be knocking anymore