Returnee Poems - Poems about Returnee

...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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