Short Diaspora Poems

The African Diaspora was when flowers were trapped & caged 

Each day I think and wanted to see them free

I see why... Your African beauty deserves to be picked

I realize that its just a figment of my imagination that their creation is truly magnificent....

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Stars, hovering over us.
Floating emotions,
Love's moonbeams.

Eternity, strings on her bow.
Hearing the wind blow,
God the creator.

We are magnetic and charged.
Drawn into action,
Blinder than bats.

Forced to surrender.  Finally,
The storm has come
And we are complete....

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MORNING APPARITION 

midnight
   moonlight

sunlight
    rewrite
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smooth pen, under midnight moonlight, breathes.
dust diaspora in sunlight — rewrite seethes.

1/24/2018...

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Many are them in the diaspora
Wandering in other's wilderness
Laundering their battered image 
Conquering the world like a mirage

Mustering last energy for a return home
Pondering over the puzzle of un-uttered racism
Yet, dark in our black
Of the black origin
But not of the black brain.

Alayande Stephen T.
13th October, 2007
2.25am...

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   In America, Passover’s a marathon
     in Israel, it’s a sprint
   Two nights @ four cups of wine in the USA
     One night, four cups, in the Holy Land, recover in a day 

   All that anticipation in Israel
     one measly night, the bubble bursts
   In the Diaspora, two long nights of carousing
     ~ though some would say we’re cursed
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No refuge here
Just bitter cheer


Search now in vain
Kind words said plain


Cliques and cliches
Odd word croquet 


Islands of stress
A savvy mess


Not much for laughs
Broken mad stuff


Loss that now pokes
Sad burden yokes


Once a big tribe
Scattered once ripe


Not much to say
A wind-blown way




Leon Enriquez
07 June 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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Glimpses of old times
Lost in misty chimes


Today sparkles bright
New cast of delight


In old hallway mist
Drifts yesterday's gist


Change hurls diaspora
A harsh agenda


We gather around
Footfalls on new grounds


Change makes most certain 
Times now forgotten


Glimpses of tight squeeze
Moments of stray breeze



Leon Enriquez
22 August 2017
Singapore...

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Don't sleep dear friends
In diaspora and  motherland 
When you see injustice 
on the head of Mama Africa.
Don't keep quiet
like some people who quitted
struggles because their demands 
had been heard 
and answered. 
Now they start living quite well. 
opening your eyes and 
Continue to quote true  messages
 which touch hearts of millions
 people in the World. 

July 14/2023...

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Born in Africa
Lovely and rare
Few others can compare
To the depths of beauty and of light
To the colors of her moods
Sometimes blue like Billie Holiday
Sometimes the color purple like Celie or even queen Nefertiti
She constantly amazes and changes
Never the same
Like an African woman
In Africa or in the diaspora
No one can destroy her
She grows, survives and thrives
She is a jewel infinitely bright
Her name is tanzanite...

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How far my friends in the west
How far my diaspora classmates
We are one in the race of life
For we are all labourers
So how far my good people
Of work and eat in the field
Of labour
School teachers how well
Can the pupils grow into 
Elite podium
How well can the leaders of 
The crown do as stars
My fellow trees of good fruits
How well can the apprentice do
Life is not about how far we
Have gone but how well
We are doing...

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