Best Displaced Poems

Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its porcelain thrones into the walled garden’s weedy rear yard. Village women wash: the floors, the pots, the laundry from first...

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Whats at your center?
Where is your peace? 
Is it puppies or the season, maybe color.
     For me, you see, it must be the sky, the trees, the way they meet. 
The way they vary but always stay the same. 
Blue by...

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I am a displaced Scouser,
Who comes from Bootle way,
And no matter where I go,
A Scouser will I stay.

I eat my chips on Butties,
Or perhaps upon a barm,
I get by on old Scouse wit,
And on my Liverpool charm.

But I’ve never owned a tracksuit,
It’s simply not my...

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Displaced or Repositioned

You know that it happens to others but, not to you but, it did!  Twenty years
of your life gone, you’re left alone with your children.  You’ve never worked outside of your home.  A fear strikes you, what do you do?...

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Evacuate, immigrate, 
contravene-covenant 
escape, 

encroachment 
foreign attachment 
intrusive? 

"Independent Culture", 

solidify 
political ignorance-political unrest 
cultural arrogance-social injustice, 

 
social engineering? 

terrorism? 
communism? 
weaponsa? 
corruption 
disease released! 

persecuted religious belief? 
exiled 
dormant hatred 
personality disorder? 
dysfunction? 

pestilence 
inertia 
condemned 

terrestrial inert, powerless? 

indignation 

birth right fundamental...

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Tossed high up in air
Cradled in valiant fort
Oust Archimedes
Vastness being inside the dot
White dreams ignobly sold...

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Time Period~~1830-1850

	
As rain falls hard and soaks the ground
and thunder roars its mighty sound,
so tears of the displaced may fall,
our cries bespeaking dearth and pall.

The Deep South tribes of long ago
were forced to forge a trail of woe,
of death and want, with goods so small,
our...

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Blue days, like bruises on the mend
without your banter, breeze and light
without your words, my friend

Long hours, like stains of star's long scattered mist
without your laugh, infectious laugh
which brutal days once kissed

Tight thoughts, like packed aquariums blue
without your nudge, your breaking my shell
without the history...

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Displaced

	Displaced at birth
Now is where, here on earth,
	Time is the only factor
To slow down the present reactor,
	It is like a snowball
It goes so fast but not at your call,
	We start life in the light
And hopefully end up in the bright,
	The past is the past
The present...

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The liar puts on their mask to conceal 
Truth that has been kept hidden 
From a desperate world.

10-10-16...

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The sins of man had brought Him here
To carry weight we should have bore
Upon His shoulders He carried all
For all of us, for love and more

At birth, His destiny was set in stone
He was to travel, on fated road
To save us all, brothers and sisters
He...

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Someday soon , we will fly,

High in the clouds , above the sky,

Soaring weightless, no ratios or angles,

Graceful floating, as if with angels.

Slowly drifting above the earth,

Departing the place we were given birth,

Some day soon we will find a place,

Where happiness reigns and hate displaced.

There...

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...inspired by 'The Average' by W.H. Auden


From scant beginnings, and of lowly birth,
bound to tractor pull and harvester,
squinting in the sun and pouring rain,
imagination lost, his soul would fester.

Smothered by his parents' love, he saw
no future plan, his for the taking,
how could he repay their...

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A troubled youth gone for a year
Far from his family’s allure
For reasons that are still unclear
yet behooving that is for sure.
We hope his stay is suitable
for one so very young as he.
meager details but on the whole
we’re hoping with no guarantees.
A year may not seem...

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I'm scared to close my eyes tonight
I ask my mom to hold me tight
To tell me it will be alright,
and rock me close till morning light

I hear my auntie start to cry,
and no one wants to tell me why
my uncle's gone without goodbye
I wonder what...

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