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Refugee Poems - Poems about Refugee

The Wife's Lament
"The Wife's Lament" or "The Wife's Complaint" is an Old English/Anglo Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book, which has been dated to 960-990 AD, making it the oldest English poetry anthology. "The Wife's Lament" may be the oldest extant English poem written by a female poet. The Wife's Lament loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I...

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Categories: refugee, husband, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am a Refugee
I'm a refugee in my own country I'll never be free because they've labelled me They say I'm far right And I'm not too bright Took away free speech Now it's out of reach My mother would tell me as I sat upon her knee how we had saved the world from tyranny. She'd say how great we were how freedom was our spur I had no idea...

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Categories: refugee, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Refugee
Warming myself in the fire of the sun, why must the soil be so cold? Listen closely, and I'll show you a story of ancestors I never knew They had a place like this that they called home, or so I was told Watch intently; I'll unfold my own fable heard before you like they grew Down the blackest...

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Categories: refugee, courage, flower, growth, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ukraine Refugee Crisis
As the war in Ukraine continues, Millions of refugees flee with a target on their backs. They rush down the few open corridors left, Looking at their gadgets for the latest information, Hoping to live another day. The refugee organization staff Try to keep track of their movement Amid the cracking of the bombs falling. ...

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Categories: refugee, political, war,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Is This A Way To Live
“ Is This a Way to Live” “The Innocent” As warplanes thunder overhead We rise from our beds And wonder, Is this a way to live? “The Soldier” As he crouches in a frozen trench Amidst the falling snow He wonders, Is this a way to live? “The Mother” As she lays to eternal rest Her little one, She wonders, Is this a...

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Categories: refugee, emotions, sad, thanksgiving day,
Form: Free verse



Refugee
I was born in the African horn, In a village, that was always warn torn, Tired of my life, on a gloomy morn, I took that fateful decision alone. Without telling my loving family, I left them behind, sleeping happily, I knew, later, they’d cry and mourn, When they’d find out, I was gone. With a few pennies and old clothes, Daring the Sirocco,...

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Categories: refugee, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Refugee by Max Burchett
"He was a refugee in his own country, my home too. How can that be?" Refugee poem by Max Burchett by Max Sebastian Burchett I met a man, homeless he said. Home was wherever he stood. He had no house, no doors, no locks, As long as there were sidewalks, That was his bed. There he laid his head. Every day I see,...

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Categories: refugee, addiction, death, drug, life,
Form: Lyric
Refugee's Not Aliens
Refugees Not aliens, once citizens reduced to Stateless beings Not because of own making On run as find life simmering due to anarchy set afire by mindless Power bearers Womb of their myopic terror sans umbilical cord giving birth to orphan refugees on Mother Earth Refugees ignored by Heartless Progressive tribes some busy in fun trip to Mars some listed as Forbes billionaire some...

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Categories: refugee, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Refugee's Not Aliens
Refugees Not aliens, once citizens reduced to Stateless beings Not because of own making On run as find life simmering due to anarchy set afire by mindless Power bearers Womb of their myopic terror sans umbilical cord giving birth to orphan refugees on Mother Earth Refugees ignored by Heartless Progressive tribes some busy in fun trip to Mars some listed as Forbes billionaire some...

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Categories: refugee, humanity,
Form: Free verse
To Be a Refugee
Means you walk with a mute dignity And because the touch has a memory, you can no longer make another one, No sea can reveal to you the joy of its flowing and its every wave is shackled with corpses and identities of drowned people, no land will welcome your shy steps. To be a refugee...

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Categories: refugee, how i feel, i
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Spice
Variety is the spice of life At least that's what they say.. We celebrate different colours Yet the world still chooses grey There's room for different flavours Whether green leaf, pulse or grain Banana loaf or carrot cake? Nutrition stays the same The truth it seems is constant With the source identified; Humans - not so different On this planet we reside As this year...

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Categories: refugee, discrimination, food, immigration, lost
Form: Rhyme
Refugee Poetrix
By taking refuge from myself I didn't notice the margins of the road nor the mirages of the desert...

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Categories: refugee, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Refugee Crisis Reported By the Bbc
A permanent fixture on the news over here on the BBC Is the Refugee Crisis so much so it may just as well be given it's own individual segment And the general running theme throughout is how we aren't seemingly doing enough for them Or treating them in the way or in the matter they are accustomed to or were expecting due...

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Categories: refugee, emo,
Form: Free verse
Refugee Story
Those are my shoes I keep then neat To remind of when I had both feet; But I am alive Not like my brother Nor traumatised Like my sisters and mother. I’ve not seen my father Since that day They came and took Us both away. They said they were fighting To set us free But what they did before They took father and me. They didn’t tell that all around They’d...

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Categories: refugee, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Refugee
Refugee I caught myself, my bad side. in the mirror Of someone else’s face. I stopped mocking No longer thinking it funny and placed my Feet in the shoes they had to wear. In my cynical mind it was a comedy In theirs a moment of indecision, worry. Go home to a war zone or stay here in safety, no brainer. But here...

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Categories: refugee, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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