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algunz
10-31-2009, 10:27 PM
Día de los muertos

By Ableardo B. Delgado

Renacen los huertos,
también los muertos.
El día de los muertos
por siete minutos
podemos platicar
con los seres queridos fallecidos
I remember
tagging along
chasing my abuela
to el camposanto
to sell paper flowers
to make the somber tombs bright
That was back in Mexico
I was only seven years old.
Here in the U.S.
los muertos
are persona non gratas.
Here we do not wish
to hold dialogue
with los muertos
They remind us
we too
will eventually join them.
Here there is no luto
and there are no novenas
or puños de tierra
Here in the U.S.

the idea is to hide,
to ignore the dead
and to even avoid death
in our conversations.
in Mexico la muerte
is well known.
She’s la talaca, a feminine figure.
Our Puerto Rican
brothers and sisters
Call her “la flaca.”
Talking with the dead is necessary
to remind ourselves
to enjoy our lives
and not to go about
as if we already died
and no one said good-bye or cried.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee218/alessandragunz/Halloween/dia-de-los-muertos-art-rj2-.jpg

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee218/alessandragunz/Halloween/IMG_0766.jpg

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee218/alessandragunz/Halloween/IMG_1156.jpg
stinkbutt
10-31-2009, 10:32 PM
Bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone
stinkbutt
10-31-2009, 10:32 PM
Tell me what ya gonna do
Geno_guerrero
10-31-2009, 10:33 PM
I love this art...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2101/2135914370_27bdc36624.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/3116669204_498ece1656.jpg
algunz
10-31-2009, 10:34 PM
Tell me what ya gonna do

Bone, bone, bone, tell me what you thinkin about . . .
algunz
10-31-2009, 10:36 PM
I love this art...

It's beautiful, and the shit that can be done with sugar - AMAZING!
fiyahhh!
11-01-2009, 05:13 AM
My girlfriend's family makes a bunch of calaveras every year. They turn out pretty sweet. (pun fully intended)
TomAz
11-01-2009, 06:15 AM
that poem was really stupid.
Drinkey McDrinkerstein
11-01-2009, 11:52 AM
http://crow.renezain.com/images2/photos/COA/asheriver.jpg
suprefan
11-01-2009, 12:06 PM
http://crow.renezain.com/images2/photos/COA/asheriver.jpg

Thats Devils Night, you are 2 days too late.
Aurgasm
11-01-2009, 12:07 PM
Tucson's 'All Souls Procession" is the best muertos celebration I've been to in the states!

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/photos/2007/11/01/l67442-1.jpg

http://www.azstarnet.com/ss/2008/11/07/266149-1.jpg
Dale Gribble
11-01-2009, 12:08 PM
Great pictures Forza.
BROKENDOLL
11-01-2009, 02:14 PM
Thats Devils Night, you are 2 days too late.
Has the time come yet for you to be put safely away in a time capsule? THAT would be worth celebrating since you're so on top of timelines and shit!
Drinkey McDrinkerstein
11-01-2009, 02:29 PM
Thats Devils Night, you are 2 days too late.

No, City of Angels takes place during Dia De Los Muertos in Los Angeles. It even has Deftones performing during a giant Day Of The Day celebration. That pic is the film's version of the River Styx wherein iggy Pop is sent down to meet the ferryman
rage patton
11-01-2009, 02:38 PM
I love this art...

I was comming in here to say the exact same thing. I love Day of the Dead art. I absolutely love it.
M Sparks
11-01-2009, 05:02 PM
There's so MUCH of it too. My wife used to manage a call center and she has a tile with a skeleton on the phone and "Please Hold" written in bones.
Pixiessp
11-01-2009, 11:34 PM
Here's my little fellow.
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t18/Pixiessp/juststuff002.jpg