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Birthday: June 18

Location:
TAOS, New Mexico
United States

School:
Santa Rosa High School

Work:
Cook
meatcutter
restaurant owner
writer

Hometown(s):
Puerto de Luna New Mexico
Los Angles, Santa Rosa New Mexico
Montery California
Taos New Mexico

My Websites:
taospoet.onesite.com
taospoet.wordpress.com
route66stories.blogspot.com

Quote:
When we brag, we need to face two who's. Compared to who and who gives a damn. Ron Chavez

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About Me

I have just published my first book TIME OF TRIUMPH, a collection of short stories and poems that can be previewed on Google and Amazon. During Route 66's nostalgic heyday, I was a route 66 icon togeather with my restaurant the Club Cafe in Santa Rosa, New Mexico where I grew up shining shoes and hawking newspapers on the old road. I was featured in books, newspapers and magazines and on TV. Presently I am writing my first novel. I do poetry readings and am well published in both Spanish and English in various venues. Should I continue to find the fire, I hope to write two novels and a second book of poetry and short stories. In Taos I've acted on stage and had a part in a movie that premiered this summer. After I retired from business my life has been pure joy filled with artistic accomplishments and a keen sense of worth

Interests:

I shoot pool, dance, swim, camp out, read books, love to eat out, attend movies and ballet, opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico, chamber music, flamenco dancing, music events, poetry readings and visit with friends at a local pub, in Taos. I assist the ederly with benifit applications and provide transportation to and from medical needs.

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Ron's Poem from his book TIME OF TRIUMPH

CRY HOPE

In despair

I cried out to God

Screamed to the sun, moon and the stars

And called to beyond the beyond

Far into the empty vastness of the universe

That violent and turbulent caldron of creation

To all things

Eternally big and infinitely small

That place where star stuff gathers and shatters

Into old endings and new beginnings

To please, please

Lift me out of this living hell

Of sudden failure and failed hopes

And shattered dreams

In my sleep

A flash of brilliance wakes and blinds my mind

I shake in panic and fear

Then of a sudden in a surreal stillness

I am calmed

Enraptured in a peaceful rest that stills my heart

My cry is answered!

I am awash in the scarlet aura

Of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Where the winter snows sweep

Down steep

North facing ravines

Where the wind is high in the pines

Then, there, slowly… alone

Refreshed and revived by the rush

Of icy waters rumbling

In the clear streams

And the clean breath

Of the bracing mountain breeze

There…at dawn

First light splits the dark

The night stillness and silence slips away

Morning brightens

Birds, unseen, in the heavy green of the forest

Sing, shrill, warble and trill

A lone raven

Draped in coal black

Catches a stream of sheen

Off the rising sun’s beams

The force of its flapping wings

Cracks the flora scented wind

Whoosh, swish, hiss

Caw! Caw! Caw!

Echoes out and up into the sky

As it flies across the meadow and into the trees

There, afterwards

In the heat of the mid-day sun on my back

In the thick of the woods

I lay on a bed of fallen pines

Quiet and still

In my ears I listen

In my head --

Where the mind ignites the brain--

I hear

The songs of silence

The sounds of solitude

My heart swells

My spirit thrills

My soul soars and wells

What once was heavy is now light

What once was dark is now bright

Down switch back curves to Taos I go

Snow on the alpine peaks above timberline

Poetry, music, dance, a little wine

In a fever to be free of fear

I begin to mend, to love life with lust

To live with passion and fire in my heart

To laugh…again

“To know loneliness and longing in the wilderness

Is to wrestle

With the very

Fibers of your soul.”

Added: August 2, 2008
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judithdance29 says:

Vivid images in your poetry and thoughtful. Good poetry should make us think and/or feel and yours does. I will look at some more of your writings. I write poetry, fiction, and essay type articles, but have had only a few articles published. Since taking early retirement about 4 years ago, I'm supposed to have "time" to devote to it. I'm now committing to it and hope to get published this year.
I just joined this online community yesterday and am still feeling my way around. Best of luck in your writing (and other) endeavors and check out my page in a week or two and see if I've put some writings of mine. Would be interesting to see the difference (or sameness) in male/female angst and other emotional matters in a he/she manner.
By the way, I'm a native Virginian currently living in Indiana, but LOVE New Mexico. I have friends in ALBQ and have visited Santa Fe and Taos and hope to be able to return this year. I especially remember a day in July when we left my friend's home with frozen water to have on hand and we were just going shopping! Then when we went to Taos, we sat outside at a little cantina with a lovely breeze. Land of Enchantment - oh yeah

Posted: April 6, 2009 8:09PM EDT

Optimistic says:

I loved your poem, it was great. It makes me wonder what you have been through to write such a deep soul searching poem.... Congrats on your sales. I will check out your website... Thanks

Posted: December 13, 2008 3:54PM EST

tjohn55 says:

I hope you see a little humor in this; When I first saw your Profile name and picture my mind was wandering a little. Not that you look anything like Chairman Mao, but before I realized your reference was to Taos, New Mexico, I had already envisioned something on the order of the Communist Manifesto or the writings of Mao. Sometimes my eyes read letters a little differently than they are written. I was glad to see you were writing of our homeland. Now I guess you are wondering why I would have bothered to read it if I thought it was something else entirely. Really cannot answer that one! "Wakan Tankan Nici Un" TOMMY

Posted: December 2, 2008 11:56PM EST

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