Separated by a passport and 8000 miles - An Acrostic Sonnet
Calling over a blurry video,
As much emotion as static would allow,
Natheless I knew you missed me; your kiddo
I can see it in your eyes and wrinkles now.
Ever since I boarded the plane for distant lands,
Venturing zealously for a better life
Excitement eclipsed the price of my plans;
Repenting now I didn’t kiss goodbye.
Recalling sweat and all the
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Categories:
passport, 12th grade, home, immigration,
Form: Other
Weight of Wanderlust
©Dr. Jamuel Yaw Asare
(Dreams Deferred, Destinations Denied)
Passports once filled with hope and dreams, now gather dust and tears.
The allure of distant lands and new horizons beckoned,
But the harsh realities of a world not made for us awaited
Visas denied, borders closed, and doors slammed shut.
The fortunate few who made it out faced storms and rough
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Categories:
passport, abuse, adventure, africa, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Revoke Her Passport
There's a passport I would like to revoke
from one person who thinks it's a joke
to repeatedly make fun of fellow writers.
Like a pugilist, she calls us 'prizefighters.'
What harm if we enjoy entering contests?
That doesn't prove whose poetry is best
because one person's opinion has weight
and another says it's open for debate.
If she's trying to deflate anyone's
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Categories:
passport, character, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
My Poetry Passport
Since I was blessed to land here,
One matures…….as a young deer.
To be popular, is not my desire.
But to grow in desire, for poetry’s fire.
To be above all, graced with humility.
Do I try new forms in a mad frenzy?
For me, that simply…is not my style.
Truth, beauty, but never high profile!
The rain kisses the earth, as I
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Categories:
passport, growth, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry As Passport
Everything appearing as nothing..
Obviously the reverse of
Nothing appearing as everything..
In their turn
Each seems to propose a source..
Language seems to have
Source talk embedded..and cannot
Capture the paradox of what is
Unexplainably
Simultaneous..
Poetry may be the passport...
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Categories:
passport, appreciation, forgiveness, lost, words,
Form: Blank verse
Visa On My Green Passport
Time and chance happened
to me
Opportunity came knocking
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Categories:
passport, appreciation, blessing, city, heart,
Form: Free verse
I Am a Book
I Am A Book
By David J Walker
I am a book of Unread pages
I am a book
I am a book Written in stages in
A travel log On a road called Time
With the foreign stamps Of Passport Ministers
Checking my credentials along the way
I am a book
I am a book Of unread scripture
With the lectures on faith
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Categories:
passport, allegory, books,
Form: Rhyme
The Ship Is Sailing
The Ship is Sailing
By David J Walker
The ship is sailing
And there is no going back
the shore you were sure of
Is further away
The ship is sailing
Under the flags of
Gods at odds over
Control of
Wind and sea
The ship is sailing
And the day to day
Is the same as same
So the sane read
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Categories:
passport, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
My Passport
In my dream, I lost my passport;
I was searching high and low
Though it wasn’t clear exactly where
I was supposed to go.
I was frantic as I rooted
Through my bag with all its stuff
As the line was inching forward
And I knew I couldn’t bluff.
But at last, I seemed to find it,
Zip-lock baggied, buried deep,
So I stuck it
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Categories:
passport, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Stamps
Stamps, perforated passport squares,
Took me oft where I wished to be
On my own low budget world tour
Warm, safely tucked in dad’s armchair.
I loved to dream in dad’s warm chair
A young wallflower who would dare
Brave adventures safe in my head
Free from boldness, courage, and dread.
Flipping album pages happily,
On safari in Kenyan lands
Lions and leaping gazelles roamed
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Categories:
passport, adventure, imagination, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Passport
The Passport
Sometimes we think people and our significant others are going to be our passports,
Passports to love, passports to happiness,
Passports to the beginning of families that we may have always craved,
or lives we always imagined in distant countries
passports to new experiences and
emotions we may have never felt.
Instead we find them to be passports to
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Categories:
passport, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Virgin Passport
she is
you are
going to be
the one that
sees me for
the first time
setting foot
on South
American
soil and i
didn't do it
for mankind
but for myself
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Categories:
passport, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Liberal Passport
-What are here?
Nothing. Only alphabets
-Aren’t alphabets anything?
-What are here?
Nothing. Only words
-Aren’t words anything?
-What are here?
Nothing. Only sentences
-Aren’t sentences anything?
-What are here?
Nothing. Oh! Only poetic expressions
-Aren’t poetic expressions anything?
-Who are they?
None. Oh! Only poets and poetesses
-Aren’t poets ad poetesses none?
-Please, let me live into this perpetual planet
No; you’ve no liberal passport
-Do I
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Categories:
passport, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Passport
Excuse me sir ,said the Security at the Airport.
Can you Please show me the Passport.
Have you ever thought of a Passport.
Who are you without a Passport.
Like an alien without a Passport.
Like a criminal without a Passport.
Why can not we walk without a Passport.
Why can not we meet without a Passport.
I am thinking of the one
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Categories:
passport, creation, destiny, education, future,
Form: ABC
Passport
"PASSPORT"
Passport to Freedom Baby Shooting Star Released
(Lovejoy-Burton/ 2018 Jan)
1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_lhbPVDi4
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Categories:
passport, adventure, freedom, life, light,
Form: Monoku
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