This Is What It Feels Like
a stranger in familiar land
my blood
too sings from the cracks
of cobbled...
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Categories:
immigration, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Nativist Riots, Kensington PhiladelphiaSit down, and let me tell you, son,
about the historic district, Kensington,
in the year eighteen-forty-four,
when the streets broke out in war.
The Irish-Catholic were new arrivals,
impoverished, fighting for survival.
The existing population was disquieted,
and so, Philadelphia nativists rioted.
It was then that false rumors were passed.
In a bad light, the Irish were cast,
Propaganda and lies, the devil's tools,
"They want...
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Categories:
history, immigration, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
OF MASTERING TODAY'S TRYING TIMESOF MASTERING TODAY’S TIMES
Controversy has its place,
as to disagree does not necessarily
mean to disavow; save in the event 0f
conspiracy to subvert justice, and void the
rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness:-
Today’s controversy
over power in America,
has become so conspiratorial that
it has reached the point of bastardizing
much ideology of the founding constitution
of our...
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Categories:
immigration, allegory, america, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Prose
Bones Remain AliveLoitering around at the expense
of my parents back,
I too wish to be at the resemblance
of hardworking thumbs,
those same fingers that sewed
the futile grounds back home,
my mother’s yuca farm,
my father's dying crops,
dance taking their final
waltz with the tumble-
weeds in direction
where my ancestors
sleep while their bones
continue...
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Categories:
immigration, death, family, farm, growing
Form: Free verse
Silent One in the SkiesThe morning is walking in its own pride
And courage is leaning by my side
The sun is rising up from the east
and fire is burning in the belly of the beast
Morning is shining all over the place
And the evening sun is melting their faces
Strange things are happening in town
And the multitude is moving around
With bags...
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Categories:
immigration, chicago, city, earth day,
Form: Prose
Tea TimeLook, London ladies, buff your speech
Mind your soiled plantation fingers
Nary a trace of our old worlds
Occupy their halls royally
Porcelain cups poised on pinkies...
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Categories:
class, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Abecedarian
Reflections while on my morning walk
You would pardon insurrection -freedom to mob, good people; while pouring ICE on immigration -Free rides National Guarded
Rebellion
Breached
Vigilante
Patriotism
Rebellion
Protest
Discontent
Nonviolent
Rebellion
While pouring ICE on immigration
Free rides -National Guarded, you would pardon insurrection -freedom to mob, good people
...
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Categories:
immigration, america, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Sputterflies
noonday sunshine
butterfly wings
pause, alight
in the shade…
northerly haze these days
...
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Categories:
america, butterfly, fire, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Separated by a passport and 8000 miles - An Acrostic SonnetCalling over a blurry video,
As much emotion as static would allow,
Natheless I knew you missed me; your kiddo
I can see it in your eyes and wrinkles now.
Ever since I boarded the plane for distant lands,
Venturing zealously for a better life
Excitement eclipsed the price of my plans;
Repenting now I didn’t kiss goodbye.
Recalling sweat and all the...
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Categories:
12th grade, home, immigration,
Form: Other
What was I sayingI don't want to imply that it was bad.
but what I've seen is drenched in black.
And I don't want to feel this way for you.
So scrape me out of you,
and I'll lead you out of me.
I don't want to live this way for you.
Only time will tell how this will end
there's to many scars...
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Categories:
immigration, fishing, for him, i
Form: Free verse
A Judgment Day Dialogue: Matthew 25 for 2025And the Lord will say to them on Judgment Day,
“I was hungry, and you defunded my food aid programs.
I was thirsty, and you rolled back drinking water protections.
I was a stranger, and you snatched me and deported me.
I was naked, and you gave tax breaks to billionaires.
I was sick, and you cut Medicaid and Medicare.
I...
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Categories:
evil, immigration, jesus, judgement,
Form: Free verse
My Sea Mystery MythI do not know
If the sea can
Listen to a man,
But a man knows how
To listen to the sea
For sure, I feel it.
On an open sea
I sit on the bank
I can think, talk
And remember things
I wonder how many
Secrets the sea holds....
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Categories:
appreciation, immigration, mystery, sea,
Form: Free verse
Racial Preferential TreatmentGod laughs when fools behave like racists
All persecuted individuals are His children
God laughs when a few are obviously chosen
And receive preferential treatment under the basis
That the lighter complexion is superior and better.
God created one race. The same blood flows like a river
In all God’s children veins. This blood is red, not amber
God laughs when a...
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Categories:
immigration, abuse, america, bible, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Montreal - Apr 29O’ Mother!, take me back at last, receive
—(unclasped arms as vast as mine)—my embrace;
this longing, laughing love, the proof and grace
of my abiding for your shores.—I grieve
the lasting loss that shear struck—do believe
my grave and groveling art of disgrace,—
when ten years had but barely found their place
in my life. As with you then, now...
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Categories:
celebration, happy, home, immigration,
Form: Italian Sonnet
All My LifeMy Blood, Polluted
My Face, Masked
My Name, Silenced
Inferiority, My master
Adaptation, My Inheritance
Assimilation, My Friend...
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Categories:
discrimination, immigration, lost, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Immigration Poems
Definition | What is Immigration in Poetry?
Poems Related to Immigration
travel, exodus, migration, displacement, exile, voyage, relocation, removal, movement, transmigration, defection, march, peregrination, colonization, journey, expatriation, trek, shift, departure, crossing, wandering, moving, resettlement, settling, transplanting, leaving, homesteading, reestablishment, uprooting,