Expulsion Poems - Poems about Expulsion

Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed. In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed. In the muck and the gas unhygienic, alas, was the back door expulsion that followed....

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Fields that once were ripe with crops Now play host to blackface and cheviot Where the children ran and played Among the bluebell and the thistle Now screams the wind in bansidhe wail Looking for those who once dwelt there. This land was once our land Where we lived and loved Rings now with silence In this our last dance. In wooden vessels on...

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A black cloud rains selectively on the dispossessed, a wretched lot. My billowing abaya now clings to me, revealing my form. Their glances lacerate. The road stretches to the horizon, but has swallowed my expectations. Palestine, 1948 First published in Blue Minaret...

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the end of the bridge my heart aches tears roll down cheeks ...

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A wish a woo it moves and glows your face To red with cold it burns this wind and frost As darkness drops upon the land And with it bringing shadowed fright You can close your eyes and think no more It will tap you on your ears and nose Don’t turn round and see its eyes Like before your birth stay...

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Life outside the garden Through the hand of man Before my appointed time I weep Psalm One thirty-nine My rebuttal at the Gate Yes, I am a life Yes, I have a soul Now I wiggle is Heaven's crib God created my inmost being When I was conceived in secret I was skillfully wrought In the lowest parts of the earth All my days were written For...

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