Best Border Poems

"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must not forget 

Lunesta ... Suave ...
He savors every moment;
Then questions my capabilities 
Suddenly I feel like a refugee in my...

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The flush of spring has bought new life to romp in greening feed,
along the border with the forest where domestic flocks do breed.
Managed through the daylight by the fear of being seen,
the sentinels of death await for night when they are keen.

Though distant lights may...

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South Of The (United States) Border...
(Reigns A Welter Of Disorder)

Caravans comprising multitudinous
     peoples plodded a steady course
analogous to iron filings drawn by
     strong magnetic force
gravitational pull generated

     by North America
   ...

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I dwelt once in a dreamy town, my land was alongside the border,
In a region of natural beauty, next to a crystalline body of water.

From the jade hills of my land, I could clearly see the other side,
Like black midnight sees the stars, when they've...

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“ Where is the border?”
              “ Well, not in El Paso, mam!”

         Thee older men were crying in
      ...

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Interior Landscapes: The Border Collie

It is the country of fallow fields in
my dream, our car pulls off the road 
beside a fenced in area...

The grass is tall and merciful there.

In this field, a border collie runs at top
speed back and forth.

My soul knows the dog...

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Cinco de mayo, 
Fourth of July-o, 
The whole enchilada will do.
Pie in the sky-o, 	
Cleveland Ohio,
Ciudad Mexico, too....

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Limerick : Once a Korean crossed the border

Once a Korean crossed the border
Found his papers were not in order
They checked his knees and genes
Found he ate the same beans
So they stewed him in nuclear cooker.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Tired of the soil and of death
dreams caught you crossing
trying a one way trip.
You've eaten the flesh and the eyes
from the trees that one day looked at you,
but you are today an unforgiving desert
watered with blood,
separating the injustices
in unequal fractions
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F
A
L
L
E
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You fall a thousand times...


Fall your...

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Mangled swollen skins arrive
bleeding bitter dark prayers;
loathsome chants of naysayers
detached dreams dying alive

Cross wrath borders seething gold
seek anchor, desert heat fumes
disgusted skeletal tombs
foreign bloodline wealth resold

Fortune steps circling schools
bouncing life, twirling fair hair 
speaking foreign tongues of flair
bright dreamers stunned by dark rules

Come seek lands...

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THE BORDER IN YOUR MIND

The border in your mind...
The dividing line,
Between me and you, and
You and me.

The borderline we hide behind.
The crying child on the dusty road
Without clothes-heading towards you,
Her back to the wall.

Don't you see, can't you see?
What causes all this misery?
The border in...

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     USA Border Fundamentals


“ Where is the border?”
“ Well, not in El Paso, mam!”


Three older men were crying in
their beer.
All were veterans with no legs.
They felt like crying such soulful,
patriotic tears!


And rightly, so!
What did they fight for?
If not to keep us...

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Border collies
highly intelligent-sometimes
two edged sword...

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Trump wants to build a wall
Between Mexico and us
I can't help but wonder
Why he's making such a fuss!

Cartels were building tunnels
Underneath our border fence
When Trump was groping females
And Pence sought common sense

Though Congress say Trump's thinking
Is reasonable and sound
We know they'll find the workforce
From los...

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In my country, gangs of fiends own the night.
In my country, we lived broken lives of torment.
My family fled with little but our naked terror.
Bleeding and blistered, our feet carried us hundreds of miles.
But I always had my familia. 

We migrated in trucks, never sure
we...

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