Emigration Poems - Poems about Emigration

'Give Peace a Chance' 55 Years Later

...
  ~ To the tune of John Lennon and Yoko 
     Ono's 1969 song, 'All We are Saying is
            Give Peace a Chance' ~

 
     Diversity and equity
       Nothing but green energy
    Elect...

IN A WORLD WHERE I DO NOT EXIST

...IN A WORLD WHERE I DO NOT EXIST

In a world where I do not exist
Nor believe I am entitled to be
Then that will be my destination
Following a period of gestation
And do not need a reservation
...

Butterfly On the Hand

...A bright dream, you have swallowed my morning sleep
In your arms, you are drowning in love and affection

Your eyes are stars in the sky of my heart
Whispers of love, every eternal dinner of doub...

Straight White Privileged Silence

...Listen to sterile silence
nursing homebound fans
wavering white noiselessness
of silent futile passing

Absence of passion
hope
care
happiness
or creased
and reasoned 
nearing deceased sad...

Emigration

...Nightfall,
Darkness permeates,
Stars are dispersed around, 
The moon comes out of its closet,
It stands on its podium in a full glow,
We hear the sounds of the night beings,
As we take our jour...

Sacred Discourse

...My OldSchool patriarchal Pentateuch
precedes our polycultural HolyNew Paraclete.

This Pentateuch
begins with the beginning
of theo-TribalEgo cultural correlations;
Genesis begets Exodus,
the ...

Boat People

...Boat People
                        by Bob Moore © 2017

We, were the boat people of our day, 
from many lands so far away
with Europe in chaos from war and strife 
looking to find a brand new ...

Mass Immigration

...Mass Immigration 

Once upon a time, there was a mass emigration 
from Northern Europe to America, caused by social injustice
and bitter poverty.
46%n of the population in Norway immigrated to t...

Chaim Nachman Bialik: On the Slaughter of the Jews

...Holocaust Poem: "On The Slaughter of the Jews"
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Merciful heavens, have pity on me!
If there is a God approachable by ...

Spangled Star Banners

...Oh say, did you notice
a national predative anthem?
Moving immediately
urgently,
without reflection of starlight 
sent or received,

From waving flags predicting elite weapons
fueled by compl...

I Have Known

...I have known 
the blessing of caring parents,
the pain of emigration,
the miracle of motherhood,
the wonder of loving and being loved,
the thrill of learning and teaching,
the joy of poetry and...

The Sea Does Not Feed Its Children

...land is  threw you

And was laid on pavilion of a poem

It may not mislead characters ... Who are you?

A homeland on the door of hell though it appeared

your is emigration was to merit

 ...

Red and Blue Estrangered Families

...Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a diaspora s...

Anti-Ode To Rain

...The big 'R', do you actually know what you're doing
To our week nation,
Absolute panic stations, feckin banter deflation, endless duration
Eternal damnation the foundation, our country's creation....

Long Before Isis

...Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out a small nation...

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