Relocation Poems - Poems about Relocation

submitted into "Premier VII Open Poetry Contest," Rob Carmack, Sponsor ARRIVING AT EL PASO © Sara Etgen-Baker 2025 Some 20+ years ago, hubby and I took up roots, moving across the entire state of Texas for the hope of a better future. This poem attempts to capture my initial thoughts upon our arrival. (Yes, our future...

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People flocked round badly hurt Paul, Ten minutes ago had a fall While he was playing rough football... And they had to a doctor call, Then with chess players in a hall, Loved more than the card's near a mall "No! His treatment not in this hall, For not being ethical at all... Some First Aid and then my clinic... At...

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We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why I’m sitting around not helping to unpack. So I tell her the problem which is her problem too but she keeps unpacking. I’m not at home, I tell her, but I’m not here either. Not to worry, I say. I’ll let both of us...

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Saw a man at a snowy bus stop Tall and lean Black as black can be Probably in his Sunday best This Monday morning. My guess Sudanese. Here on compassionate grounds Home country ripped apart Tribal and religious strife. What might he have seen Lord? What atrocities and robbery? What loved ones abandoned? With no other apparent choice? Does he have English Can he handle this Awful Waterloo cold This awful...

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Moved everything here to be with you, What more did you want me to do, Let my job go so I could be in your world, Then my settled life became unfurled, These eyes watch you turn my world to an end, These arms long to hold you again, But hurtin’s on me yeah, so what can I...

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