Returnee Poems - Poems about Returnee

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...