Best Refugees Poems

Come by the thousands

Hungry, desperate, each day

Greece's agony mounts!*


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Home lost, new home found

Distant shores opening arms

Tears flooding the seas 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
   17 August 2015 




*Thousands of refugees and illegal immigrants enter Greece 
each day in search of a better future. Greece, despite...

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SYRIAN REFUGEES

I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees

I'm watching the desperate faces
The terror and hunger and fear
They're facing their ultimate nightmare
And me? Well I'm just sitting here

And saying 'Isn't it awful'
'Something needs to be done'
Whilst...

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They are refugees in their own country.....

No land for them to go. No body care them either
They are known as refugees in their own country
War brought uncertainty in their lives
and made them to live in refugee camps forever
They travel long distance along the road 
with...

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Hopes of happiness,
Laughter,
Turn into darkness and fear.
Screaming,
Shouting,
A spray of despair.
Tugged in my heart,
Ripping out my hair.
Nowhere to turn,
Nowhere to hide,
So much is going on,
Looking around,
Eyes filled with horror,
My country is falling apart,
Guns shooting,
Rebellious,
Tears of sadness,
Dropping down my cheek.
Gone are the dreams,
The hopes of joy,
Because of...

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To be called a refugee is one 
thing but to be ask why you're a 
refugee is the hardest question 
to answer.

Mafata.D...

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Our President assured us
that "they", will all be cleared
"You're safe here in America
there's nothing to be feared"

Vetting may not help us much
Where, were the Passports made?
Did they buy them on the street?
Or, from someone in the shade?

Takes an Expert with a "sense"
to spot the "Real...

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REFUGEES

I read of Rohingya
Thrown out of Myanmar.
In a city near Cox’s Bazar.

I remember that place.
It’s hundred-mile beach.
Its waterfalls, jungles.
Its beauty and peace.

A place where turtles
Come home to nest
Where waterfalls
Splash from on high.

Where the jungle holds sway
Over tourists at play,
On the longest sand beach
On our world.

Please...

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A real dilemma faces us, don't think it's going away
refugees, "not vetted ones", will soon be here to stay
They're coming to America, Obamas plan is firm
the thing to be concerned about?  It's not about a germ

Could be an ISIS army, there is know way...

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My LeftYang eye and ear,
and maybe throat
and hand
and probably vocational foot
remain adamantly persuaded

My most successful time for deep ecological listening
and watching
is immediately after inhaling a vast theological lungful
preparing to speak my WiseElderness
into the remaining yin void
of those no longer refuged 
or capable
of hearing nurture
and seeing
cooperative...

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We’re never uncivil, 
    But sewage, it’s raw,
    Pumped over the innocent.
    It’s displayed and sprayed
    Over every infant.
We’re uncivil all the time.

We’re never unschooled,
    But the teaching is stopped,
...

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Now doors were all closed, without single crack,
The father exposed, with son was to black,
Inside of a lorry.

Surrounded with fruit, they trembled from cold,
For clothes from Beirut, which little warm hold,
Too thin were and hoary.

»Where father are you and where is your face?
For dark is...

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THE DESPERATES

The hungry and the poor,
Will always try to find a door,
That will offer them a little more,
Than what they had before.
They cross the border through 
The Kruger Park, 
When it’s dark,
A singularly desperate act!
Between them all they,
Have made a pact,
To secure a life,
Where they...

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The Little Children are Crying
 
Of recent sad occurrence—
At the southern border of the USA
In prescribed DHS detention centers,
Little refugee children are crying
For their mothers and fathers—
From whom they had been cruelly taken
And caged like mere animals,
Full of tears, fears, and horrifying sadness
All at the...

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The kids are just fine
On this Wednesday eve
Our lives intertwine
Until one takes leave

On this Wednesday eve
We huddle in the waste
Until one takes leave
From this bombed-out place

They’re readied for school
Packed up for the day
Ballet class in tule
Then we hurry away

Packed up for the day
The evacuations begin
Then...

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A Colossus
And on it 
An emblazoned inscription 
From days long gone by
A message 
Of Love 
Of Peace 
Of Dreams
Made real 
Breathe in the life
TRUE freedom brings
Of Love
Of Peace
Of Power
Of Pain
Of Happiness and Sadness
Her TRUTH
Remains
Rest upon this lady,
Who beckons to ALL
From her golden shores
For EACH of...

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