Happiness Immigration Poems

SUGAR-DADDY
BY QUAZI JOHIRUL ISLAM

On the subway a white sugar-daddy
Whispers to a brown girl, you stay with me
I will pay your rent and bills, tuition fee
Don’t...

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Sometimes, happiness is found in unexpected places,
In the smiles of strangers who cross our paths,
In the kindness of strangers who lend a hand,
& in the...

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I sat in my yard, revering to the sublime splendor. 
A Setting sun lighted wheat fields with a gold fender. 
The universe is a celestial art by...

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He says he saw "(this nation's)
Identity sold and robbed by immigration..."
And I remembered
My first day teaching at the border school
First teacher there that August morning
Cows...

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U

It is cool here. 
Is it hot there?
You have not written. 
I have not received...
a letter.

Do you think of me?
I remember you. 
I can not...

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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...

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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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Say Say O' My Playmate
come out and
write with me

you bring your
your pencils
three

and we will
scribble
play writes
or
do some
little ditty's

tell a funny joke
or
two

or
maybe three

maybe about
you and me

made up
about
me...

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Moving out feels much sadder
than moving in, more gladder--
which is poor grammar
for severance of love's embodied glamour.

Packing up
feels more like packing in
and down,
cutting ties with...

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Locked In

The walls all around, 
are not what is doing me under. 
It is not the lack of air, 
food or needed sustenance…
It is not...

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We had all joy & Jill in school I remember
We had all craze and blaze in college I remember 
Getting my first job I was...

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The Crowned Dead

The growing of green things, 
should concern all of us. 
The fires burning in far lands, 
can still reach US(a). 
There are all...

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Walking through the contemporary gallery of poems as theme,
where images are painted by the soul with words in a frame.
The calming thoughts like woven sound...

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Careless Thoughts

Honest whispers, 
from somewhere unseen. 
Things we should not, 
dwell upon. 
Life's mistakes, 
sometimes, 
without…
“Do Overs”.

Punished in this world, 
saved in the next. 
God...

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24 Days of Praise

Thankful for the day, 
In every way, 
I bow my head, 
and bend my knee. 

My family is fed. 
No one is...

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