Long Migrant Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
migrant, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
migrant, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Essay: a Better Kind of Poetry Contest On PoemhunterCHALLENGE TITLE POETRY CONTEST FOR AUGUST ON POEMHUNTER.COM!
'WHY DO TURTLES CROSS THE ROAD? '
OK FOLKS! Please choose your favorite poem from those entered here and remember too to give your reasons for your choice....
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Categories:
migrant, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations IChinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
migrant, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
migrant, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
migrant, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
What Kind of People Are WeWhat Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...
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Categories:
migrant, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form:
Narrative
Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In ParisDIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths
March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris
The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...
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Categories:
migrant, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Seeking SanctuaryDiaspora Dwellings
On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.
Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better business opportunities
for his healthy future.
Here...
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Categories:
migrant, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Empowering PassionIn passionate psychology,
powers of proactive compassion
are generally thought of in personal
and familial
interdependently relational
perspectives.
In political science,
large-scale powers for proactive compassion
resist reactive competition to merely overpower the opposition,
preferring pro-active energy for liberal love
constrains against investments in conserving...
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Categories:
migrant, caregiving, education, health, integrity, nature, passion, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Prisoner of the Matrix LoadedPrisoner of the Matrix loaded
Prisoner of the matrix loaded
Cattle within the herd
cages within the slaughter
Profiteers prey upon the wounded
Branded comodified beings consumed
In consumption
Led to the plunder of themselves
Within the plotted grids of bondaged earth
Still between...
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Categories:
migrant, america, analogy, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
migrant, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
The Conditions of LivingThe Conditions of Living
Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation
Instead of chronic devastation
Process the abject consternation
From contrived over-saturation
And acute mass manipulation
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...
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Categories:
migrant, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Liii - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LIII - Tongue Teasers
Whether the glass is « half full » or « half empty », what counts is WHO « drank" the "other half », the « better half » ? Lucky...
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Categories:
migrant, animal, girl, humor, irony, word play,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Liberating MigrationsI was listening, last night,
to a sympathetic defense
for conserving liberal arts
and producing deeper and wider liberating sciences
including healthy democratic
politically empowering science.
Once again
I am hearing about the persuasive prominence of identity,
how we label our ego-political selves,
as...
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Categories:
migrant, earth, health, identity, integrity, metaphor, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Natural Integritea"Nature yields to artifice,
not artifice to nature."
Iain McGilchrist
Winning yields to lost and last identity,
not ego-loss to healthier winnings,
more ecosystemically robust.
LeftWing values for transparent
inclusive
democratic rights
more than royalistic wrongs,
yield to RightWing
nationalistic
white supremacy,
not artifice to integrity
of...
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Categories:
migrant, gospel, health, integrity, language, romance, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Political Verse
Unsanctuaried SoulsI currently conjoin with AllSouls,
a sacred green communion of saints
and sometimes sinners.
A few live together,
couples,
extending families
reaching multiculturally out
through AllSoul roots
regenerating pasts,
transforming future generations
now repressed by fear of global climate pathology
as thick and toxic
as lose/lose ecopolitical...
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Categories:
migrant, appreciation, christian, community, earth, engagement, health, soulmate,
Form:
Political Verse
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim TiesVillanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*
Never...
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Categories:
migrant, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and LxiIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI
The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… "...
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Categories:
migrant, bullying, immigration, leadership, people, political, surreal,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unfinished ExodusAs Exodus tells his story,
Moses was compelled by God
and then invited,
commissioned by inside/outside Voice,
and bv voices of Israel's extended EarthTribes
to lead them through forty desert years
of sometimes nomadic wins
and mostly immigrating losses
in a competitively shared...
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Categories:
migrant, christian, health, islamic, jewish, mountains, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Under the Bridge In Del Rio, Texas UsaUnder the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased, mistreated and deported like Haitians
Like herds of cattle to detention...
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Categories:
migrant, africa, america, anti bullying, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Cry
“Soul Cry”
Yeezy you da best
Not ice cold soulless
You gotta big heart
Wanna be next U.S. Pres'
You now swingin' with da rest
with your delusional pal
That Humpty Dumpty
gonna have a big fall
One messy cracked
bad...
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Categories:
migrant, abuse, america, child abuse, children, discrimination, family,
Form:
Free verse
Diary Notes: Lament At DawnDiary Notes: Lament at Dawn
…at the...
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Categories:
migrant, french, holiday, introspection, paradise, paris, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxiv and LxvIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV
NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done to the infirm, minors and seniors (i.e. over 65) is...
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Categories:
migrant, allegory, anti bullying, corruption, french, immigration, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Letter To Ronald Hull On His Comment On Diary Notes: Lament At DawnLETTER to RON" Diary Notes : Lament at Dawn - A Year Ago Yet Now No Change "
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
8/19/2018
"Quite a lament! The state of Paris at dawn. Just the thought of sewage seeping...
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Categories:
migrant, conflict, immigration, paris, political, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse