Greetings dear friends of @literatos, a community of letters that allows us to express what we feel. I hope you are feeling well this Saturday weekend.

Here I share with you the joy I feel through this poem for the poetry club, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the invocation of the Divine Shepherdess, spiritual guide of the people of Barquisimeto. The phrase of the week is “return”.

It is a tradition that every January 14 she goes out in a large procession from Santa Rosa to Barquisimeto and this time she will wear a beautiful costume donated by the Redemptorist missionaries, of which I am an active part. I hope you like it.

A Barquisimetano tradition
that fills the heart with joy
the guaro people, united in procession
with much devotion and Christian faith

It is about the divine shepherdess
image of the immaculate mother
that the people carry on their shoulders
with love to the intercessor mother

This afternoon I come to visit you
together with my Redemptorist brothers
as your children, not as tourists
we have come to present you with a suit.

We want you to look beautiful and radiant
that all the people admire your beauty
your virtues, woman all purity
blessings for your loving people

Dressed in this beautiful garment
with a golden colored dress you go ahead
in your return you walk beautiful walker
show us oh mother our path

We want to ask you beautiful lady
that you intercede for us before God
health, peace and well-being
to this town, my divine shepherdess