Refugees
Not aliens, once citizens
reduced to Stateless beings
Not because of own making
On run as find life simmering
due to anarchy set afire
by mindless Power bearers
Womb of their myopic terror
sans umbilical cord giving birth
to orphan refugees on Mother Earth
Refugees
ignored by
Heartless Progressive tribes
some busy in fun trip to Mars
some listed as Forbes billionaire
some relishing edible gold powder
some using gilted commodes,cars
while refugee families live in fear
in temporary abodes near border
sans food, clothes, clean water
Refugees
ensnared pawn in crossfire
beart brunt, while killers
of Refugee's Nationality
aren't probed, booked, jailed !
Lady Justice stands blindfolded
Scales tilted against Refugees
Sword not chopping cruelty gross
Killers of Refugee's identity
roaming scot-free with impunity
Refugees
man-made menace
pose a great challenge
Society should ensure
none is made to flee
as after effects are grave
Refugee can turn bad apple
rotting full basket of Humanity
shaming HIS Creativity
humiliating HIS Divinity
______________________________
© Dr Hitendra Mehta, India ????
Categories:
stateless, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Refugees
Not aliens, once citizens
reduced to Stateless beings
Not because of own making
On run as find life simmering
due to anarchy set afire
by mindless Power bearers
Womb of their myopic terror
sans umbilical cord giving birth
to orphan refugees on Mother Earth
Refugees
ignored by
Heartless Progressive tribes
some busy in fun trip to Mars
some listed as Forbes billionaire
some relishing edible gold powder
some using gilted commodes,cars
while refugee families live in fear
in temporary abodes near border
sans food, clothes, clean water
Refugees
ensnared pawn in crossfire
beart brunt, while killers
of Refugee's Nationality
aren't probed, booked, jailed !
Lady Justice stands blindfolded
Scales tilted against Refugees
Sword not chopping cruelty gross
Killers of Refugee's identity
roaming scot-free with impunity
Refugees
man-made menace
pose a great challenge
Society should ensure
none is made to flee
as after effects are grave
Refugee can turn bad apple
rotting full basket of Humanity
shaming HIS Creativity
humiliating HIS Divinity
______________________________
© Dr Hitendra Mehta, India ????
Categories:
stateless, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Some sense it
a tipping point being tilted.
You step back
into your mind's eye,
survey the present climate
sensing a dire change,
a new darker wind
stirs your thoughts.
Something went wrong,
something got too damaged.
In the stateless moment
where we were once unified
by the same dream
there is now a lack,
a narrowing of opportunities
for peace and harmony.
What you once loved and honored
is being dismantled,
its parts being carried away
by political gremlins.
The Great Divide is here
it rumbles under our feet
it pollutes the very air we share.
You want to run to the nearest hilltop
and shout:
"broken arrow, broken arrow!"
Alas ears are now blocked
and hearts sundered.
The rocking scale is off kilter
and a torn veil has fallen
from our eyes.
Categories:
stateless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Red undulating plain.
Blue tarpaulin.
Little orange tree.
Rice
Red Cross
On my plate.
Rohingya mouth.
This yellow dal.
Journalists, but
Admire
My agony
Distress pictures
Better!
Stateless boy
Singing
'Future'.
Silly song
Atop the Black rock.
Categories:
stateless, anxiety, dark, desire, remember,
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Gloom
Sorrowful October, rain hangs in the air to mean to fall
a murky joker without a sense of humour, I don`t care whether it rains or not,
it is just the persistent greyness makes my beard white,
my hand's thin so many rivers look like Bangladesh overrun by the stateless.
People born in October tend to be mournful, with the sudden outburst of ire.
Intemperate, I blame the weather, vengefully jealous of others success,
it is not the October`s child`s fault; it had two choices winter or summer,
but was pushed into late autumn, forsaken by god and man.
The rain didn`t fall, blew westerly and the afternoon sun was helpful.
Categories:
stateless, abuse, age, allegory, angst,
Form: Blank verse
The Whites
It is not easy to be white these days, the whites
get the blame for the demise of the Red- Indians,
by students who do not understand history.
When a mass of poor white came to America, it was a population shift
of great dimension, a tsunami over the prairie and
the local tribes who, in a way, were stateless suffered.
But the whites worked hard and made America great, with the help,
in the beginning, of black slaves who became disadvantaged
and have not been able to rise above it and develop.
The whites didn`t invent slavery, Africa has always had slaves,
And here is slavery in many parts of the world that is not white.
The history of the whites is one of triumph, alas, also of
cruelty, but we must come to terms with our history it can`t
be eradicated by attacking statues,
Categories:
stateless, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Blank verse
Flies’ flew
Adamant fly flew giving me ticklish in nose tip
Hands were busy to drive them far hitting kick
Not only one or two time continuously turning back
As leaders of my town sit back for convention as lazy sack
It is not matter of one or two days but shameful present
By far leaders have tendency to attend in opening meeting
Proclamation of constitution cannot suppress hungers of poor
A doctor of my town sleeps to create health issue for natives
Poor people construing millions too cannot force for even rule
Environment of my town blows cheap dust formatting havoc
Such has been the culture and nature of my beautiful nose
A lovely town in world bearing name top Everest in the world
Women and even babies are not safe in homes and shades
Cruelties upon them always repeat in stateless affairs
A sick sigh in gentlemen’s face glooms being helpless naturally
Multiple times flies have attacked unhealthy facet of dirty politics.
Categories:
stateless, culture, dark, death, flying,
Form: Free verse
Education is life.
I want it but I can't.
It is my need.
Alternative learning I did.
I am called immigrant.
Oftentimes stateless.
I am trapped of nation-state.
When it was borderless.
Now in a boundary.
In history only we exist.
I am never free.
Never tied but trapped.
I want to sing.
Want to smile
Like others
Want to walk freely.
But I have no legal document.
I have only paper.
I am sometimes called refugees.
War and war
Never in peace
Because of tricks.
Politics and greed.
I am hopelessly drained.
But I want to put hope in life.
I want to live life like real life.
Not a fake life.
Doing fake smiles
Fake happiness.
I have kept it my heart.
But I don't want to hate.
I love peace.
I love to love.
I hug my self
And I scream.
I am finally free.
I now can read
Write and count.
Thank my God!
Lahad Datu.
Dam Road Area.
I love you reading.
Layag Sug!
Categories:
stateless, addiction, analogy, angst, change,
Form: Ballad
Limerick: Once an Anchor Woman at Sea Anne-Anne
Once an Anchor Woman at Sea Anne-Anne
Interviewed OFPRA* doing Can-Can
She said: Will you?
OF said: You, too!
And they rowed off in a rude bed-pan.
• Office français pour la Protection des réfugiés
et d’apatrides (French Office for the Protection
of Refugees and Stateless Persons)
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Categories:
stateless, humorous, woman, sea, sea,
Form: Limerick
Rondelet: Give me country
Give me country
Goddamn my values and cultures
Give me country
I'll not die for my family
Devil take mother and sisters
I'll lay my life down at borders
Give me country
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012 - (A Stateless Person for over 43 years.)
Categories:
stateless, freedom, home, patriotic, me,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Freedom!
Why to Sulu you cannot grant?
Independence!
To Sulu you don’t mind!
Freedom!
Sulus cried for once!
Independence!
Sulus need to embrace then…
Freedom!
Until this shall not achieve
Still the march towards it!
Independence!
Sulus need this to happen
United Nations please do what is due to them!
Freedom and independence
Are basic human rights
For the Sulu to regain!
Should other nations feel
What was their will to have their freedom?
They could have felt how Sulus
Wanted to be like them!
Do not add time to waste lives!
Please act to help Sulu stateless nation!
This could be done by United Nations?
For Decolonization!
Justice! Justice! Justice!
Categories:
stateless, history
Form: Narrative