Sorrow Immigration Poems

Soldiers of fortune caught in the construct
Captive foreign held in the menagerie
Shoulders abortion fought for my next salary
Now souls smoulder over their short daiquiri
I hate...

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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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In the depths of the Mediterranean's embrace, 
Where waves and sorrow interlace, 
A tragic tale unfolds each passing day, 
Of lives lost, dreams shattered, swept...

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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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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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9 to 5 at a dead-end job, staying on someone else’s couch.
Paycheck to paycheck, house to house.
This is how I survive, this is how I...

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I am a sprite pixie lost in the vast plain of tomorrow

Plain simple and impish and easy to find in my sorrow

A true spirit I...

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Our country is turning to .
And not like a pretty  that your pet cat hid pretty well in his litter box
No. 
A Big Fat...

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The Damnable Sin of Self-righteousness.
All of our leaders have their different views of human rights.

Our leader has repeatedly resisted calls to assume the moral leadership...

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Anyone who had a heart

Would feel the pain that I feel,

Every time I see the bodies of children

Laying on the streets of bombed out buildings,

Anyone...

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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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Victims

I Pity you
For what you had to do
for what desperation, poverty and despair drove you to.
What lack of education, dangerous situations 
and complex cross-cultural relations...

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All  I ever wanted, was to live a happy life
Never did I imagine, I'll one day face this plight 
I never wanted a life...

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The world has gone crazy
Countries are at war
Our lives are now uncertain
We are cautious, afraid 
Shocked to the core

When will it end?
Innocents dying so needlessly
Families...

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IMMIGRANT GIRL
Remembering this night of our last touch,
when nothing is between us we should know,
in love with loving you, and just how much
I wonder where...

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