Returnee Poems - Poems about Returnee

... I've been contemplating the tastelessness of the soup being served on site. The difference between what's sweet and sour is noticeable in every bite. It's not just the infusion of artificial inte......

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...Unitarian Church returnee After a hiatus of countless years plus an additional almost three months since a major makeover, (I experienced the magic wrought courtesy a bonafide big hearted ......

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...Maunakea comes into view. Coastlines from right side windows. Hilo, my hometown. Soon we’ll be landing. I feel the plane stop and cargo door with luggage bumps hold, thumps ramp. Passen......

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...I: Provisio in scriptura (provided in scripture) The Lord made us from the Earth's crust, He creates that vessel blood's line, each of us from ashes, --from dust, blood flows, soul, min......

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...Hurt of holidays, December vacation daze From toils and travails Of tense, maddening travels, Remorse on return, mind blasé. ____________________________ Tanka |07.12.2022| Poet’s note: Some ......

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...I have seen the black face of his Kenyan father With whom he didn’t go farther: an absolutely Black Papa Describing not the Diaspora Rappa, His loudest trumpets for Jomo, As Barak’s nearly were ......

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...For thirty years long I fled my fears Until I was wax soft and white like moon The fugitive only his own voice hears His lips trembling swell the empty spoon Shattering dusty teeth. O the exile Has r......

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...The Doctor delivered the news like a Court Judge in a final death sentence verdict "You are HIV positive!" A the clinic corridor the Nurses had gathered Like Eagles converging on carcasses the......

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