Song Immigration Poems

I have entrusted my verses to migrating birds,
Their wings carry my words across vast miles.
Last winter, they faltered on their journey to you,
My cherished avian...

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Show me a place where I can be in a little island far above the sea where the skies touch the hills and transmit a...

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As another refugee dies
camped along America's southern border 
a poor family seeks law and order
In Mexico
(In Mexico)
And the family cries.
They didn't expect to find hatred...

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*** OF AND ABOUT IT ALL ***

Life’s  so much a-coming or a-going,
With hours of waiting or flowing
From now to next
While we step about, hopefully...

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Here I am standing on the empty stage looking at all the shadows around me, shadows of the past, shadows of the present and shadows...

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The Border
The southern border
The migrants stood
There is no order
Too risky for migrants and no food

Buses of migrants enter
Where do they go?
A song is sung by...

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outside my window
somewhere in the dark
a sound I've never heard before...
a bird in distress-a nests width beyond a song..
it is the season of migration
where all...

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It is natural to hunger for a savior – 
when spiritual, we turn to God; and when
feeling more literal, toward government, 
our mates, extended families...

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walking down a one-way path 
straight with the moon over one shoulder 
following the tracks 
as they lead into the horizon 
following the faded imagery...

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Spaghetti

The meat, 
the cheese,
the sauce.

The smiles,
the laughs,
the wine.

The music, 
the song, 
the moment... 

The vow of forever!

Then...

You and I, 
and the garlic bread!



A. Foster, Ann...

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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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His girlfriend he wanted to see
To travel he came by Jet Ski
The moron, the fool
Broke our Covid rule
Our Deemster was far from happy!

His Christmas will...

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The Garden at Grandma’s

The house is quiet, the chores are all done. 
We have gathered in the place out back. 
There is pit for a...

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Today is Enough

The morning came early. 
In fact I was up all night. 
I watched the coming and going…
of the stars.

God’s work ever at hand,...

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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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