Thank You Immigration Poems

Hand Me Down Past
David J Walker

As if to say 
	What if It came to pass 
Taunting the future 
	With unproven ideas

Rearranging 
		the constellations 
Rejecting
 the...

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"Loadshedding" - we have power cuts, weekly
LORD you are light, thank you for eyesight. And candles!
"Criminal Immigrants" - as with the USA, South Africa pulls
LORD...

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His poems were about racism.
About the white man who wouldn't hire him
	because he was a “dirty Mexican.”
My mind shivered in disgust.

In the end he said,...

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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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I’m all out for In, Boys, I’m all out for In
I’ll not consign dear Europe to the bonfire or the bin
We’ve fought too many flippin’...

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The Bangladeshi Flood

It is the latest worrying news to hit this troubled nation...
There is a growing bewilderment and fast rising indignation....
Ever since the Home Minister...

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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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In Texas, we measure time with a cow’s height
the calf, the heifer, the yearling, the cow, 
the calf, the bull, the steer, the steak. 

In...

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