Alien Invasion
Fear of the Outsider, the interloper, the alien
Is as old as humanity itself.
Xenophobia doesn’t just apply to someone foreign
And “not like us”,
It applies to anyone who may threaten
Our way of life, the status quo, the norm
And way “it’s always been.”
From local bar to climbing crag, surfing beach,
Ghetto corner, and Union shop floor,
The
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Categories:
xenophobia, anti bullying, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative
Administration '25
They're knocking at me door
In the middle of the night
They're knocking at me door
Giving me an awful fright.
They taking me
To a camp where
Ashes fall like black snow.
I'll not be overjoyed
By goose-stepping boys
With boots to their knees, oh hey,
And brown shirts and billy clubs
Cheese grater belly rubs
Coming to take me away.
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Categories:
xenophobia, abuse, america, betrayal, holocaust,
Form: Political Verse
Xenophobia
Life slithers satisfied in the self-made furrow,
I incise in the known terrain for tomorrow.
The journey I waver to take beyond the familiarity,
for the company of kinship is a kind of security.
The challenges of the unknown build impediment,
I strive boldly, but can't cross even being confident.
I may try to change the course of life to
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Categories:
xenophobia, fear, life,
Form: Rhyme
Xenophobia
When a tribalism person laugh at a racism person , it is like twin brothers mocking on themselves.
When someone who is xenophobic laugh at a hater , it is like two best friends mocking at each other.
Quote by poet
Xenophobia,
A victim of xenophobic attack,
It is always hard to condemn your bad
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Categories:
xenophobia, 12th grade, forgiveness, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Xenophobia
Every evening, I could witness, in my childhood,
Beggars, going from home to home, for daily food;
Fear filtered into my heart, as though from fountains,
I could see, within me, many terror mountains...!
Visits of soothsayers, snake charmers, and vendors,
Magic, jugglery, witchcraft, and comic blenders;
Each one was considered a guest and was well-homed,
Each, as though members,
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Categories:
xenophobia, fear, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Xenophobia
Because our world's too crowded, we fear strangers,
treating foreigners with disdain and contempt.
Yet, xenophobia is fraught with dangers;
laws can help, but the entitled feel exempt.
"Go back to where you came from;" such racial slurs
taunts many minority entrepreneurs.
How easily we tend to forget our roots
and what being a true Christian constitutes.
(Rispetto)
04/28/2023
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Categories:
xenophobia, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rispetto
Categories:
xenophobia, anger, angst, hate, violence,
Form: Verse
Xenophobia
“Prejudice wears a variety of hats, none of them becoming.”
~ Kevin Ansbro
Is it fear or is it hatred
Of a stranger, the unknown
The premise that the unworthy
Could deprive you of your throne?
Is it feeling self-important
With a right to underrate
Foreign people with behaviour
Prone to sow the seeds of hate?
Selfish, haughty, prejudicial
Are the stickers on your
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Categories:
xenophobia, fear, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Xenophobia
“Let not narrowness of ego decoy ~
Every delusion, seek, search and destroy”
~ quote by poet
Defined as dislike of foreign races,
xenophobia retards growth of soul,
for we look at outer form of faces
and not God’s light within that makes us whole.
Oh hermit, narrow judgment defaces
our heart, deflecting us from our life’s role,
so let’s look deeper than mind-body
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Categories:
xenophobia, judgement, prejudice, racism,
Form: Ottava rima
Nora Is Getting Poorer
I feel for next-house Nora
Getting poorer and poorer:
A plant facing stem borer
While she seems a goal scorer
Her idle hours rarer
State of things not fairer...
Nora's younger: Victoria
Is doing well in Pretoria
And her cousin Eugenia
Sure to become engineer ;
In South Africa clever
And there could live forever
No causeless xenophobia
When with host shares her beer...
I feel for
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Categories:
xenophobia, absence, allusion, cry, money,
Form: Rhyme
No To Xenophobia
What has befell onto us?
What is happening to us?
What are our problems?
Who can answer?
We are Africans.
Africa of great fortune.
We should live as one.
Not as two.
We are ourselves.
Fear, not foreigners,
Irrespective of their race.
We are ourselves.
Our hero's effort must not be sleeveless.
Let's be ourselves.
Egalitarianism must continue.
Africa my Africa.
Tribalism, societal conflicts, interstates' conflicts,
Must stop.
Fear, not foreigners.
United we stand,
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Categories:
xenophobia, abuse,
Form: Free verse
The Plague
Who brought us the plague?
"The strangers", they cried - "kill them!"
And the plague just laughed.
- #Haiku
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Categories:
xenophobia, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
The Narrow Path of Xenophobia
The dying day lies beautiful in the tender glow of the evening,
Her skin is black and glows with angelic beauty,
But a glacial pang of pain like the stab of a dagger of ice frozen from a poisoned well leaves her gasping for air,
She has been raped, abused, molested, and dwarfed to a symbol of worthlessness.
God
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Categories:
xenophobia, africa, anger, death,
Form: Free verse
Progeny of Adam -2-
We sow discord,
Yet we're thirsty of peace.
We chant war,
Yet our ears call for euphonia.
Racism infests our world;
Tribalism invades like malaria.
Although we have diverse languages,
With love there is no barrier.
We attack the weak,
And leave them with dysthymia.
We hunt strangers like Tiger,
And replace euphoria with dysphoria.
Oh children of Adam!
We are one family.
Do away with xenophobia,
And put on
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Categories:
xenophobia, conflict, corruption, earth, fear,
Form: Political Verse
Progeny of Adam -1-
We are Adam's progeny,
But we separate ourselves from each other.
We are no more our brother's keeper;
Like Cain, we are diabolical.
Xenophobia feasts on our heart;
No sympathy for strangers.
We chew hate speech in the home;
We utter hate speech on media.
We look down on other race;
We must have forgotten Pangea.
Superiority complex spawns slavery;
It is psychological.
The disease of the
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Categories:
xenophobia, africa, anxiety, black african
Form: Political Verse
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