Best Migrant Poems

With return to summer tree of berries red -
   he flashes ‘tween the green scene like a trinket;
      celebrant in citrus hues of sunset bled
         it matters not if twilight...

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Birds

                                          Fly

  ...

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The Lady of Liberty looks me in the eye.
I am tempest-tost, and welcome reliant.
I pass at her feet, yet gaze at torch high:
Soon to be standing on the shoulders of giants....

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Migrants Tears

They tried to shoot me
Then rape me
Then enslave me
I am empty inside
Where shall be my refuge?
Is there any humanity left in this world?
You, with your earthy comforts and peace
Why do you fear me?
You, who has not seen war, why scorn me?
I am you, I...

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The Female Migrant
A customs official found a suitcase with a forgotten
Syrian refugee lady in it, he took her home blew life 
into her and he was no longer alone. 
Bought her sexy underwear skirt and blouse and
a bicycle pump and no longer did he bother...

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silhouette afar
first seen thrush in withered paddy
lone warrior...

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Migrant workers and street children
Tarek Hasan

I do not sleep on eyes
Early action is away on leave
I have the luxury of back pain.

I did not question my race today
Abroad my identity?
Most of the walls are stained the conscience of the question
Minded as unwanted, what is the worst?

There...

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Yes, this is a bad joke
Yes, this is a sad comedy
What an irony
What a parody
Smile and smirk, so you won’t be poked
What a hilarious lie! It is a travesty
Immigrants don’t eat pets
They eat beef, chicken, and pork
Like you and me. All bets
Are off. Let’s be...

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I sit in a tent, rain pouring down
My children are crying, no food to eat.
My spirit is failing, starting to drown,
Hands clasped in prayer, my God to entreat.

My homeland has perished, corruption and war.
Our houses destroyed, our lives ripped apart.
Inhuman brutality to even the score
The...

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Jets and planes have conquered the sky 
Just like us, fly over the deep blue ocean
They have copied us, use avian highways 
But, why are the  singles  unable to fly?
They have made mechanical giants
Which will carry  many of them. 
A pilot navigates...

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I was a lost boy I wasn't talkin'
And I was so small I wasn't eatin'
So I went on my own, my demons I'm beatin'
Three years of silence, no walkin' no fightin'
Up to LA, that's where I'm goin'
Will I return, I can't say without knowin'

I'll go...

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The American migrant bounds along like a bouncing ball along the wobbly suburban fence,  

before climbing the nearest tree like a grey helix, leaping into the drizzled drenched foliage.

Some dislike its ubiquity and its imperialist approach towards our more attractive patriotic 

bushy tail red...

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it casts off from the quay 
to cross short stretch of sea   
heading for foreign shore 
with migrants from afar  

they leave place of despair 
to start new life but where
the boat is sitting low 
the swell begins to grow  

and...

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Incomers

From the middle east and Africa, people seek European shores
dispossessed and poverty struck, they seek, a better life
a promised life of democracy and work for everyone
Many, when reaching Europe, cross the channel from France
in Britain, thanks to the BBC World program.
Their point of embarkation is...

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dear migrant
where you came from
what did you leave behind
memories moments

dear migrant 
who did you leave behind 
family friends
 
dear migrant 
what dreams did you not find
there
here

dear migrant
neighbor 
liked 
disliked 
wanted 
unwanted
I will never understand you
you or your reality
fully
partially
but I will try 
try my best 
to...

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