“Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the i…
...some have to flee their homelands
A six word story
War can not be justified! War is a major problem.
My work speaks for itself.
This is a refugee from the war of Georgia-Russia. He’s living in one of the schools in the capital of Georgia… hundreds of Georgians ar…
First foot on land and the candy is pink / Here the packages are right to left / There they are left to right / Here they too came on boats…
“Yes, I know all of that,” said the woman’s sharp voice in English from the kitchen where the happy plant sat on the window sill. “But is…
‘To market, to market’ – when the produce for sale is something a little more serious.
Yes, I could, feel the land, / I had left as a child! / The earth under my feet, / And the fragrances escaping from the gardens. / The rain…
shadows of recalls from saigon!
Silhouettes of passing figures wind between a web of streets / and under giant figs, / their shapes morphed in dark reflections / on the age…
My grandfather Meier Zable was Polish Jew who immigrated to Melbourne before WWII. The rest of his family died in Poland at the hands of the Nazis. A prolific poet, he wrote his last poem in Yiddish on the final page of an exercise book before dying from a heart attack. A line translated from this poem was: “I feel like I am a leaf, falling into eternity”
Just a comment on a few places in the world that go through crisis and displacement to have some mineral company move in later to claim what was “abandoned’; while the refugees that own the land waste away in refugee centres. / And then their is the “Intervention” in the Northern Territory of Australia that is robbing Indigenous peoples of their assets…. too..
WE’RE ALL BOAT PEOPLE! / FROM THE FIRST FLEET / TO THE PRESENT, THIS ISLAND CONTINENT / HAS SEEN WAVES OF PE…
THE WORLD IS FACING A FLOOD OF REFUGEES FROM WAR TORN COUNTRIES. / WE NEED A HUMANE WAY OF DEALING WITH THEM!!
Where do you now hide / When all the Churches are locked / Once a Sanctuary and a guide / When your World had been rocked
Writen for a Creative writting and Poetry Challenge, Sanctuary … Even after the Labor government in Australia took over from the Liberals, nothing much seems to have changed in regard to those who seek sanctuary here. They are processed off shore and kept in Consentration style facilities; or taken to Indonesia to be left in possibly worse conditions..
He knows to keep moving, / Or the enemy will see, / No time for brooding / When your a refugee.
The sacrificed and the deprived / Who have no food or clothes, / Refugees who walk endless sands, / In search of endless roads.
Brief words about world migration changes and trends
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