Famous Immigration Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Immigration poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous immigration poems. These examples illustrate what a famous immigration poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain

...of fortune swings

Your will could have sped it up...
But you left that in a plane
Because it wouldn't pass customs and immigration

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Here's synchronicity for you:

Your music's tape was inside my walkman
When my best friend from summer camp
Called with the news about you

I listened them...
It was all there!
Your music kept cutting deeper and deeper valleys of sound
Less and less light
Until you hit solid rock

The drill bit broke
and the valley became
A thin crevice, impa...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Jim


They Should Have Asked My Husband

...dom, and the pearl.

Well . . . they should have asked my ‘usband, he’d have told’em then and there.
His thoughts on immigration, teenage mothers, Tony Blair,
The future of the monarchy, house prices in the south
The wait for hip replacements, BSE and foot and mouth.

Yes . . . they should have asked my husband he can sort out any mess
He can rejuvenate the railways he can cure the NHS
So any little niggle, anything you want to know
Just run it past my husband, wind...Read more of this...
by Ayres, Pam

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