Rain Immigration Poems

fade out from the camera lens
the lotus bloomed from the broken glass soil
all things came into perspective
as every toil was put into focus

every shard set...

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				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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Dear Canada, if I were an artist,
I would paint the world with your beauty,
A masterpiece for all to see,
As I know it to be.

Oh, the...

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Ghosts in Gray Rains.
All along the rain swept street
Crowed With Ghosts of Lost Sovereign thoughts.
Shadows are carved hard, 
sharp by
Neon Bars. 
My mind wanders in...

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Blood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along...

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20 years ago, I attempted this "sonnet" (c) Deo

Ebullient, animated anticipation
That delicious delay as I await the words
Precious and precise cascades of persuasion
In reference, refrain,...

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Rain makes you lonely, Rain makes sad

            Rain makes you wish things you never...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIX (continued)

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My words are incoherent
but emotions -- all tender;
My soul is encapsulated
and thoughts are shackled. 

When it rain, hear;
the sound of thunder ...
where my heart surrender
losing...

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Because I dared, I have tonight
This is my flight into soft light
Where flowers drenched with dew,
delight, as canopy of sky turns heavenly blue.

Because I dared,...

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April begins as a joke in a house of children:
A surprise, a word, a laugh if we’re lucky.
There are still bills and taxes and poems...

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STEVE

A trickle on the water
A wave upon the sea
A chance to say, now you're on your way
Just what you mean to me
The ups and downs...

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I couldn’t understand the language she spoke,

at least not all of it,

but the emotion pouring past her lips, 

the tears in her eyes, her clenched...

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She has eyes that have seen all the sky
a smile that is both knowing and shy
Her brow is humble and also proud
Expressions as soft as...

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"The Immigration Officer Asked Me."

I was asked where are you coming from?
I answered I ran away from the war in my
country.?

I was asked how many...

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