Best Migrants Poems

Tears upon tears. 
Cruelty upon misery. 
Swapping hell
 For the psychotic sea. 
Capsizing in infinite night. 
Empty silence now ruptured, 
As haunted faces 
That once knew kindness,
 Wail and scream. 
Kick and splash. 
Fighting their surrender 
To the murderous depths
 and then quietness falls. 
But...

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Liberal or conservative 
the questionnaire asks
about migrants.

Fred’s in the middle.
Asked about The Wall 
he writes that he sees 

nothing wrong 
with hungry illegals 
crossing the border 

looking for work and 
nothing wrong with
the Trumpeter Swan 

sending them home
as long as no one is 
killed in...

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Regardless of culture,
of religion,
of national residency,
of gender,
of sexuality's vast pantheistic diversity,
of hemispheric prime presidency,

When humans step out of our shelters
into a riotously gorgeous
and fresh
perfect warm sunshine breezy
natural day,
we feel healing positive passion

Is what we have been needing
and what and/or whom
we are currently sacred graced
to feel...

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I kept drifting, drifting, drifting, I wasn’t sure where I was going but I kept drifting. The winds set in my back spinning around my new frock and I kept drifting.

 I kept focusing ahead of me hoping to find some company but the empty...

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For Migrants No Other Choice

When we had heard voice after voice,
Containing crying making loud noise;
Heading here,
Still with fear;
Coming to America was only choice.

To arrive in America tried and tried,
And yet after all of this she still died;
Another migrant,
To heaven went;
No water supplied and father cried.

Jim...

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Errant atoms
Running amok
Colloidal conspiracies
Intertwining
Wandering
Hidden
Behind the opaque
Mysteries
Of their being....

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It was an afternoon, I sat lonely;
And watching the horizon silently. 
Suddenly I watched a flock of birds flying in a straight way,
Perhaps to this nature, they were trying to say. 

Oh! they were so lucky indeed, 
Because they were free from human's gaol;
And each...

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Illegal Migrants
Miracle Man
4/19/2024

Their sleeping bags and tents line each street,
making an eyesore of what once was neat.
The thing most unfunny,
we’re giving them money,
while our healthcare resources they deplete.
...

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Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on hell-bent backs
just trying to reach Spanish-shores’-east 
from Moroccan beach with a camel-mystique
—the seaway west of Africa 
a rags-wearing-flotsam grave

migrants on the...

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Encage us we are of collective souls
Display us in prisoned wallpaper as ghouls
Send us into these sepsis tanks, in tin cans 
in torture dungeons, in faraway lands                  ...

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Just another African
Once full of sun and hope
Train to Venice from Milan
At the end of your rope
Horrors seen at just 19
Crammed onto a flatbed
Desert burning red
Human carrion in the sand
Oblivion near at hand
Beatings, rapes in Tripoli
Leaky tub on a rough sea
Peril all the way to...

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Come out of the darkness, stand in the light.
Speak from your heart and give us insight.
Don’t treat us like animals lured by honey.
Saying you care and you’ll give us your money.

Offer instead, a small thread of hope,
A plan to slow, illegal immigration, guns, dope.
Shore up...

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Comrades, we still live under the stars for many years, People identify us Lankan Tamil refugees,                            No passport,...

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Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, 
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was in the 90's,
and Jose began to not feel well.

He went to rest on a bus used for worker
transportation to the...

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