Daughter Immigration Poems

I didn’t know if I was going to make it through the night, my feet were as cold as ice, my heart was where it...

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Promise me 
The jungle remains the same 
So it so hard to see you change
Responsibilities has turn you into a stranger
You are not who you...

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Albert Nolan
"Abtract Gospel"
God in
"Picture" out
current problems
shoved aside
preach good
Feel good
do apartheid

II - Part 2
In his book, God in South Africa The Challenge of the Gospel," Albert...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Days have flown,
Months are gone..
Theres never been a day which was lacking your thought;
I even see your smile dropping down to a frown..

I have your...

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I never know what will happen…what memories I’ll see
but I love when my imagination merges with my memory.

My memory picks a person…sometimes quite randomly
and my...

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1886 
Frightened immigrants
holding hands

Spoke little English
two suitcases
strange tongues, smells
cornucopia of sounds
crowds, horses, wagons
tenement apartment
little heat

1909
Their own home
central heating
learned English
Model T Ford
business, savings
four children
daughter in college

Dauntless citizens
holding...

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Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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In reprimand of Donald Janus Tramp
     (the Grand Old Party's best and choicest loser,
who sleazed and promised us he'll “drain the...

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Chana's the face of America
Chana heralded from Iraq
Chana came here with seven sons
  and a daughter
  ~ Everyone of them tough as a...

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Layli Long Soldier speaks ...
Legalese: with lots of "Whereas"

Her Lakota people make other news in praying -
She really believes in prayer as resistance

Yes, "Indians" are...

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FOR PROLIFERATION OF THE IMMIGRATED SOUL

There are those people who would not leave their country no matter how the trouble comes.
There are those people who...

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Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Out of the bosom of eternal bliss
 In which I reigned with glorious sire
 Out of my comfort zone
 With dreams to fall a sleep...

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Out of the bosom of eternal bliss
 In which I reigned with glorious sire
 Out of my comfort zone
 With dreams to fall a sleep...

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