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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: REFUGEES Matches Found: 261 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 13TH ARRONDISSEMENT BLUES, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: When we sit down for yet another sublime meal Last Line: And if only we could swim, we might be free Subject(s): Food And Eating; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration 35-MM CLIPS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my past. I'm able to remember none of it Last Line: In this silent film, your back to the camera Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration A NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck / at the gold head of my grandchild Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; United States - Race Relations ABSENCE (1), by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some people like broken glass Last Line: Out of touch %with the times Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ALGERIAN REFUGEE CAMP, AIN-KHEMOUDA, by ALAN ROSS Poem Source First Line: You have black eyes Subject(s): Algeria; Refugees AMERICAN SUITE FOR A LOST DAUGHTER, by JACK ROGERS RIDL Poem Source First Line: I am the last greylag on the left side of the v Last Line: The nights we walked and tried %to see only the stars Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AND WAKE UP WHERE?, by DAVID LAZAR Poem Source First Line: A generation of mothers sings 'over the rainbow' in ruby bedroom slippers Last Line: Place like home, there was no place Subject(s): Family Life; Girls; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANGEL IN FLORIDA, by RANDALL MANN Poem Source First Line: And I, wishing to be back in cuba Last Line: Purpling only the mountains of cuba Variant Title(s): Dust And Broughtoni Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ANY TUNAY NA LALAKI STALKS THE STREETS OF NEW YORK, by NICK CARBO Poem Source First Line: Looking to harvest what makes him happy Last Line: For a preparation h commercial-al moranas, %american but with a filipino flair Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ARTURO, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: I told everyone Last Line: Do not call me marie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations AT THE BAR, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: German, who swam along the coast, %german, who reached guantanamo base Last Line: Dimelo. What do you get from those songs? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AUGER, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through cold salt wash %and the bilge stench Last Line: In the throes of dream at least %I listen and obey Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Beneath the dripping udders %of tarpaper roofs Last Line: Like a saxophone %noodling through broken english Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BARBIE, MADAME ALEXANDER, BRONISLAWA WAJS, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: I told jerzy ficowski, if you print my songs in problemy Last Line: Have more than the sound of one lifetime, more than my own Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BEACH ROGUE, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: Unevenness and sand giving away Last Line: Will run up to him %crying out his eminent name Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BIDING OUR TIME, by NGUYEN DAU Poem Source First Line: We refugees ply all trades over here Last Line: Is this all we deserve, this rotten lot Subject(s): Refugees BODWIN'S MADMEN, by JOHN LUNDBERG Poem Source First Line: Rain slams the window, ripples the hills Last Line: That pelts his face, and looses omnipotent yells Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all have a story to tell. Mine begins Last Line: Well-edged, sharp to the point, has been my fortune Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BOOK OF RUTH, by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW Poem Source First Line: I learn to live by guile, to do without love Last Line: To do without sleeping to avoid death, tired of sleep Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration BREAKING AND ENTERING, by WILLIAM BAER Poem Source First Line: When he was done, he sat in their living room Last Line: Too bad. He liked it here; it felt like home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CALIFORNIA, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the cool electric gaze of a hollywood enigma Last Line: Swallows borders. A wilderness shines Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CEANANNUS MOR, by GREGORY MCNAMEE Poem Source First Line: I, another refugee, have forgotten Last Line: Having instead discovered history, %adrift, ignorant of what else to seek Subject(s): Refugees CHANGING THE NAME TO OCHESTER, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: When other grandpas came to ellis island %the immigration people asked 'name?' Last Line: It was good and lasted %a long, long time Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Loss; Moving And Movers; New York City; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CHINA CAMP, CALIFORNIA, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Here's the long trough, covered by a screen Last Line: Tangling in the empty nets and sinking %to the coldest dark water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CITY OF ANGELS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out there, lies the city Last Line: Thundering against the sides of this %city of angels %so far removed from heaven Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Why did I not die at birth Last Line: And put the ash on my tongue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COACHING MY FATHER ON HIS TEMPORARILY MOVING INTO MY OLD BEDROOM, by MILES G. WATSON Poem Source First Line: When you sleep, don't pick sides Last Line: Bats held high and their eyes still on you, %waiting for the next signal Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COLORS OF A FREE LIFE, by MARIANNE POLOSKY Poem Source First Line: In the war, we were always %running out of things Last Line: I bask in the sunshine, %kissing the air with my song Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration COLOUR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the grass Last Line: Look at the grass Subject(s): Colors; Drowning; Grass; Refugees COME TO FIND OUT, by JACQUELINE DEE PARKER Poem Source First Line: Might can, they say in louisiana Last Line: This way, I might can %come to find out %more, for sure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CONFESSION, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, adonai, lord of the jews Last Line: What sort of job I have done on this earth Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CORAL WAY, NEAR THE ROADS, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: Though this sunday afternoon is torrid Last Line: Idyllic memories are merely a jeweled noose Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CREDO, by LILACE MELLIN Poem Source First Line: I believe in highways, %maps more healing than scripture Last Line: And the well-worn disappointments of home Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CROSS-CULTURAL GENRES, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Here is an eskimo abc book. Here is tununak graveyard, filled with snow Last Line: Graves fill, grass bows down, as bs cs tussle with sea wind. They leave, they %leave without saying Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CUBAN REFUGEE, by HOWELL L. PINER Poem Source First Line: Go back to cuba? No! No! Gentle priest Subject(s): Cuba; Refugees CZECH REFUGEE IN LONDON, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a very short, black velvet skirt Last Line: Every year I discover: I have no defense Subject(s): London; Refugees DARK SONGS: SLAVE HOUSE AND SYNAGOGUE, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: A few museum florid paintings by unknown Last Line: Dug up by their roots, torn from the soil & hurled %across the sea, from one tiny carib %outpost to Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DAVID'S RUMOR, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am busy doing drawings Last Line: This riot, that hall, that vacancy and pressure %wherein we draw towards goodbye Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DEATH OF A WAR HERO, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: So many rambo movies have been made Last Line: Opening wide so that he could escape Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Last Line: Surveying burning blocks by helicopter Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIASPORADIC, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: When I saw the jews floating, I knew Last Line: By the waters -- now where are they going Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIGGING UP PEONIES, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Overcoming fear of stalks that are too close Last Line: I can of my mother, of my father from this earth, %from the dissolution that binds us after all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISLOCATION, by RALPH ADAMO Poem Source First Line: We move the word into the river Last Line: If there ever were a word-deeply silenced Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DISTANCE, by CAROLINA HOSPITAL Poem Source First Line: Distance has made of us all strangers Last Line: And the habitual echoes of empty rooms Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DIXIE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had no idea Last Line: And wish the same old wish, that we were %anywhere but here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Southern States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration DWARF WITH VIOLIN, GOVERNMENT CENTER STATION, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long-distance connections fade and rectify Last Line: Everything looked alive as if forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EAST RIVER PRISON BARGE, by HUNT HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: The powerboats cut the water Last Line: Escape for their long weekends Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EASTER, CIRCA 1960, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a clattering of black shoes. Mine are very tight and have pointed toes Last Line: To my room. Lie down. Click my cuban heels Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EL BALSERITO, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: Because my spanish is chips-and-salsa simple, and I am desirous of improving Last Line: Of the journey, shells of arrival, shells of departure Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the child sitting alone planning her hope Subject(s): Refugees ELEGIES: FOURTH ELEGY. THE REFUGEES, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the child sitting alone planning her hope Last Line: To say and to remember and avenge. A lullaby for a believing child Subject(s): Refugees ELEGY WRITTEN ON A BLUE CEMENT GRAVESTONE (TO YOU, THE ARCHEOLOGIST), by BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ Poem Source First Line: What history is: %a mound of gathered rocks. In time the rocks will Last Line: The earth will break us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EMIGRANT, by KATHERINE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: I am the boy, stomach flat on the sand Last Line: I am the homeland. %your family sings %in my quicksand Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration END OF SOUP KITCHENS, by MARK TAKSA Poem Source First Line: You put your money on the pavement Last Line: Declares the end of soup kitchens Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ENDLESS LOOP, by CHERYL KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Have you ever loved a refugee? They scream at night Last Line: Have you ever loved a refugee? %(my boyfriend was made in hong kong.) Subject(s): Refugees ESTRANGEMENT OF LUIS MORONE, by STUART JOHN DYBEK Poem Source First Line: Luis morone %cuts adrift Last Line: Don't worry mother %you aren't blind %nobody sees him Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EVICTIONS, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: Precocious refugee, %between the ghettoes' fires Last Line: The flame's dilating eye, %eager for holocaust Subject(s): Ghettos; Refugees EXILE, by SANDRA M. CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: We are gitanas Last Line: Because he knows %he is my first obsession Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXILE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere I turn I find homes Last Line: But there are days when learning means nothing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXPEDITION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Again the grand eunuch was dispatched Last Line: Would cleave the indian ocean %and pry open our shores Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration EXTINCT HOMELAND-A CONVERSATION WITH CZESLAW MILOSZ, by ANA DOINA Poem Source First Line: Home? Somewhere we belong? The metaphor Last Line: I worshiped. I am my own myth, the first memory, nebulous %like any beginning Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FARRAGUT NORTH, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tunnel-light at the top of the station two or three Last Line: Truant spirit, moving dead leaves with the wind among the shadows Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOCK OF PHANTOM LIMBS GATHERS AT THE BORDER, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: An amputee is a brood of indecisions; %the scent of smoke lingers in her shirt Last Line: He hears the thrum of planes like some immense stone %bearing down through a hole in the world Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FLOOD PLAIN: THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, by JAMES LEONARD SHUGRUE Poem Source First Line: Are we ever anywhere, can we ever feel Last Line: Laying claim to absence, I will own %no region but the evicted heart Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR BORSCHT, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: A bowl of borscht-sea of blood Last Line: Borscht shekhinah, borscht mother of us all Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR SOMEONE CONSIDERING DEATH, by LOLA HASKINS Poem Source First Line: I told you. %life is one big hanon Last Line: In that small, closed room Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE OLD RIDER AT THE MALL IN SIOUX FALLS, by DONALD MORRILL Poem Source First Line: I didn't have change for a jug of thunderbird Last Line: And the helpless thing lives, bruising, human Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOR THE SAKE OF TIGER LILIES, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: In a clearing, in a swell of grasses Last Line: Always the sound, always the salt licking the air Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies FOUR CLOUDS LIKE THE IRISH IN MEMORY, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: First memory of school: sitting in the grass beneath a dogwood tree Last Line: I had no idea there were such great forests left Subject(s): Clouds; Loss; Memory; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GENERATIONS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a shop of hanging meats Last Line: An empty plate. This is the place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GENTLEMAN'S DREAM, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Dead drunk, he snores %like a bellows under the linden Last Line: He drowns them in an ocean of urine Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GHOST PASSENGER, DAY AND NIGHT, by MICHAEL DENNISON Poem Source First Line: Each morning, I wake batlike upside down Last Line: The face in here is here to stay, %even after the light is gone Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GUIDE TO THE TOKYO SUBWAY, by HALVARD JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: At shinjuku station %one entrance is haunted Last Line: Happy to be alive %not knowing which way to turn Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HARMATAN, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday also has its leaves, newspapers Last Line: Of the earth ceaselessly emptying itself Subject(s): Europe; Immigrants; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Poetry And Poets; Poverty; Protestantism; Racism; Refugees; Sahara Desert; Solitude; U.s. - Foreign Population HEAT WAVE: LIBERTY, MISSOURI, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: I can't wait to see %that evening sun go down Last Line: Before the bedroom mirror, %touching my nipples to the glass Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HISTORY CLASS, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To enter was to breathe in Last Line: And not the ones of infamy, %those of the blinding fraud Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOMECOMING, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time, thunder unshackles the rain Last Line: The bird for the objection its sustains? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOW IT BEGINS-HOW IT ENDS, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, somehow the clever dust slips in Last Line: Into an almost invisible earth I taste, inhale, take it in Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HOW THE REFUGEES WERE SAVED, by ELLEN KNIGHT BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: The sun had dropped low down the western sky Last Line: As freely as air or as sunshine from heaven Subject(s): Armenia; Refugees HOW THE STREETS IN FRONT OF KAUFMANN'S DEPARTURE STORE TELL ME ....., by RICK CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: For years I have been lost. Some nights I have known it Last Line: For the light to change, together at last Variant Title(s): How The Streets In Front Of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me.... Subject(s): Home; Loss; Moving And Movers; Night; Pennsylvania; Refugees; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Walking HOW TO LOOK WEST FROM MOUNT PLEASANT, UTAH, by SETH TUCKER Poem Source First Line: Your brushstrokes licked dryly at cheap canvas Last Line: At what the color of soil %looks like on canvas Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration HUNGARIANS: 2. THE WINTER OF THE REFUGEES, by ERICA (ERIKA) FUNKHOUSER Poem Source First Line: Saturdays during the opera sandor cooked Last Line: We'd all be showing off the same gold ring Subject(s): Hungary; Refugees IN CALIFORNIA, by KATHY FAGAN Poem Source First Line: One either believes in god %or believes one is Last Line: You have, maestro, who planted me here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN EXILE, by DAVID WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Other refugees come to him Last Line: Leaning forward, listening, %his body forms a prayer he cannot hear Subject(s): Refugees IN HEAVY FOG OUTSIDE BISHOPVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: I held the slippery secret of life %between my thumb and forefinger Last Line: But I know I was at peace Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN THE CHIPS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: A self steps out of the self, pauses Last Line: An armful of white red & blue Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IN THE DEPOT ... REFUGEES, by NANCY CARDOZO Poem Source First Line: On the long benches some men sleeping Subject(s): Refugees IN THE REFUGEE CAMP, by SHARIF S. ELMUSA Poem Source First Line: The huts were of mud and hay Subject(s): Refugees IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE ALL I KNOW IS THE COMMERCIALS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big things in the wind: %big dirty things in the wind Last Line: Well I'd like to know whose they are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration INNER LANDSCAPES, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: The orchard is a musical refuge, full of poetry and Last Line: O my soul, forget the ancient idols! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Refugees INTERNAL EXILE, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What you will not grieve %is forced on you Last Line: As some enter a shrine, %not to worship %but to be forgotten Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration IT'S NOT COLD HERE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the flags are frozen Last Line: For the pure abandoned joy of sliding down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Home; Refugees; Rest JASMINE, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is no beginning and no end Last Line: Who and what you are Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JEW'S HARP, by RODGER LEE KAMENETZ Poem Source First Line: Held lightly against the teeth, lightly Last Line: Throb, a tone deep and urgent %and a breath like a sigh Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOINT VENTURE, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shanti doesn't talk -- sweet Last Line: And walk out, free, lonely Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JOSE CANSECO BREAKS OUR HEARTS AGAIN, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: Out for the season, what's new Last Line: When jose, like a certain country I know, %will break our hearts again Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration JULY 4TH, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: It doesn't attack %as scripture details Last Line: You can begin today %to be magnificent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration KING OF WOUNDS, by SEAN BRENDAN-BROWN Poem Source First Line: He lived on our place %since before I was born Last Line: On those barren islands %they die blamed and blaming Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAMENTATION CANZONE, by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Why after so much breath %do you return to me from the body, the city Last Line: My grasp is the suburb of your new city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you – beyond all accounting o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you-beyond all accounting-o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LETTER, by KASEY JUEDS Poem Source First Line: He didn't want to remember ireland, %my mother says: her grandfather Last Line: In the pit's extravagant black- %and just as fragile, as needed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LETTER TO MIRTA YANEZ, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: I read some place in ruins, %your recent book of poems, and that title Last Line: Invisible behind bars %of sugar cane Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOOKING FOR LEVEL GREEN, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Seneca once told a white man Last Line: Dark pines down in there %alive and holy, alive with her Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOOSE SUGAR, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: I hardly remember any sounds from childhood Last Line: I disagreed with the concept of 'need' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Last Line: Come back to me, you little fool, before I find I can live without you Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LOVE PENNED RED, by SEAN BRENDAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: My mother finished her life in side-boxes Last Line: That'd do it; god willing she'd be his halting place Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MANIFESTO, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: Look in the window and extract a name Last Line: Terraces erode, groves lie fallow- %order is cognate of joy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MASK, by MARCOS MCPEEK VILLATORO Poem Source First Line: Today I will consider tekum uman Last Line: Across my white carpet, newly shampooed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MAX BECKMANN & QUAPPI IN BLUE, by J. J. BLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: 1924 pleasure %possible bed fanatic clean Last Line: The tattooed crown and the reality %of the undreamed imagination Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: AN OPIUM SMOKER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: After the eleventh pipe Last Line: Twist like a possessed worm Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: ETIQUETTE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: As only one sun rules heaven Last Line: Actually the letter had been drafted before macartney came Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MEETING THE BARBARIANS: THE FIRST EUROPEAN, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Having waited for twenty years Last Line: Dangers encountered and labors endured Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Immigrants; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees MEETING THE BARBARIANS: TRADE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: The sea barbarians live by trade Last Line: Is no more than a crippled dinosaur Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Last Line: Caliche canyon and haul back barrels of water %from the river of the arms of god Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MI VIDA: WINGS OF FRIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The refugee's run Last Line: Found himself %knelling on the floor %with a paper towel Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: The shining of the soul, gives us each %character and beauty. Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Mink Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MISSION, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: He was sent by our emperor to the west Last Line: Use barbarians to subdue barbarians Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Last Line: Who must so love their lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MOTHER IN A REFUGEE CAMP, by CHINUA ACHEBE Poem Source First Line: No madonna and child could touch Last Line: Before his breakfast and school; now she did it %like putting flowrs on a tiny grave Variant Title(s): Refugee Mother And Chil Subject(s): Mothers; Refugees MY FATHER LEARNS TO SPEAK (AGAIN), by C. V. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: When you left the appalachian farm for Last Line: Safe in the valley between those mountains %you would soon leave behind Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration MY FATHER RECOUNTS A STORY FROM HIS YOUTH, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: He who discovered Last Line: And he is surrounded by everything that is Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NEW REFUGEE, by MARISELLA VEIGA Poem Source First Line: Stands %outside my door this morning Last Line: Come in. Have lunch. In this house %we are not without a gun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Refugees NEW YEAR'S WISH FOR A LITTLE REFUGEE, by TRAN MONG TU Poem Source First Line: Let me send you some words, a little wish Last Line: Your past of sorrows, all your world of griefs Subject(s): Refugees NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Five young men get off the boat in new york city Last Line: To the library, where he studies %astronomy and insects Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NEWS OF LOCAL MOURNING, by ROBERT STEWART Poem Source First Line: Boatloads of refugees wallow Subject(s): Refugees NINETY-ONE IN THE SHADE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It's always the same Last Line: Into the hot gust %like a word remembered %that we do not say Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NO LIVING IN PARKED VEHICLES, by STEVE FAY Poem Source First Line: Only the dead may park, all others Last Line: Happy motoring. Now, make it happy Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOD, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this mind %beyond dry cornstalks Last Line: If there's no solid place to go %no world called home Subject(s): Automobiles; Homosexuality; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NORTHERN DARKNESS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Winds die and shadows wrap us %in trunks of trees. We anticipate silence Last Line: The faint hymn of our breath %pales visibly Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck %at the gold head of my grandchild Last Line: The worst is true. %everything you did not want to know Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations ON BEING TOLD I DON'T SPEAK LIKE A BLACK PERSON, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Emphasize the h, you ignorant ass Last Line: Greetings familiar %in any language Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON FORGETTINGS, by PATTY SEYBURN Poem Source First Line: My father's cemetery planted squarely in detroit Last Line: We say the wait is worse when we mean, the forgetting Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PASSPORTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Naah,' she says, voice too low for a wheedle Last Line: The irishman I married %is half handsome chinese %half russian jew Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PATRIOT, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Confused, using no maps, oldies Last Line: No turning knob. No flowered oz. No hope of god Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PERSONA, by BRIGITTE BYRD Poem Source First Line: I suddenly feel slav, oh, no, not suave, rather slavic. You know Last Line: To the old rich uncle stories. I am la tante d'amerique who builds up a stock of words Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PHONOGRAPH, by TODD JAMES PIERCE Poem Source First Line: And so I come to you, my uncle Last Line: Can be found on my lips as well Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PHOTO, 1945, by FRANCISCO ARAGON Poem Source First Line: The only photo of you black and white Last Line: I've never really seen, %or touched Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PLUS SHIPPING, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly it was a premonition of a navajo warrior that men Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POEM AT AN UNMARKED GRAVE, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Your grave is untouched by flowers Last Line: A college education is a room with a fire %inside a strange city Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR A VIETNAMESE STUDENT, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Some words have tongues sharp as punji stakes Last Line: Repeat after me: gobbledygook, gobbledygook, gobbledygook Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FOR PANCHO GONZALES, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: This was the world of white lines, a game Last Line: A dish, a lamp, an ashtray at a time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POEM FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY, by MARGOT SCHILPP Poem Source First Line: The flowers have checked their suitcases Last Line: To heat me so that I didn't %burn from the inside out Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POLITICAL OR NOT, HERE COMES THAT POEM, by WENDY BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My mother, who happens to be dead, %had little or nothing to say about Last Line: Or the serviceable plaid pattern of our lives Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POLITICAL REFUGEE, by ALBERT HUFFSTICKLER Poem Source First Line: Her children will call it home Subject(s): Refugees POLITICAL REFUGEE, ONE MONTH, by SANDY SOLOMON Poem Source First Line: What he's lost isn't the uninterrupted sun Last Line: Not saved by strayed, estranged and numb, a beast %in the field, wheeling for direction, knowing non Subject(s): Refugees PORTRAIT OF A COUPLE AT CENTURY'S END, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impatient for home, %the after-work traffic fanning out along Last Line: By a beeswax candle pooling beside %their dinnerware Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTCARDS FROM FLORIDA, by LARRY WAYNE JOHNS Poem Source First Line: The vertical blinds separate and come back together Last Line: By clearing the understory, %allowing more light to reach the ground Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear the ghost of drums approasching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear ghosts of drums approaching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PRODIGAL, by PETER COOLEY Poem Source First Line: You had walked out, carrying the rain Last Line: Erect, lifting how far it took you to get here Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Last Line: People who needed urgently to hear it, god kept a secret Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: Born exactly in aguadilla %north coast puerto rico Last Line: To the children of %eternal liberation Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration READING KEROUAC, YORKSHIRE, by STEVE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Today, jack, your words won't console Last Line: We would taste in our minds Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REAPPEARED, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: Long after we stopped remembering, word of him Last Line: Resurface, and simply swim away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RED FINGERNAILS, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Briefly I dwelt upon my mother's tongue Last Line: Before the first one has to be lifted away Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REFUGE, by ANNIE I. MUZZEY Poem Text First Line: Upon the tumult of the toiling street Last Line: Becomes once more an upward shining way. Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What is the name of your country? Last Line: He raised high the pleading %white flag of surrender Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by FRANCIS FALLER Poem Source First Line: To affirm a simple joy, he's told, is futile Last Line: A refugee is never lost. He builds, %with buckled stanzas, or a few rough planks Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by SANDY MEEK HENSON Poem Source First Line: When I went to your country, I went straight to the ocean Last Line: To build, the prison you wouldn't or %couldn't leave behind Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: He who lives in half-lit-rooms. He who looks for burnt-out ruins Last Line: The dog's friend, he who lets the lamp burn. He who looks blind Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by VLADIMIR LEVCHEV Poem Source First Line: Every minute Last Line: We might have traveled to eternity Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In england, on the downs Last Line: And over down and plain %all nature seemed to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): England; Refugees; World War Ii REFUGEE, by FELIX POLLAK Poem Source First Line: He was born in vienna Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by VIJAY SESHADRI Poem Source First Line: He feels himself at his mind's borders moving Last Line: Pinned like a flower on the genocidal past Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration REFUGEE, by PEGGY L. SHRIVER Poem Source First Line: Heavy with child Last Line: For them to use. %it seemed the human thing to do Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by CHRISTINE SNEED Poem Source First Line: Last night you used the word sampan, said Last Line: You traced a house in the sand Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by CARINE TOPAL Poem Source First Line: I am buried in an empty field Last Line: I'll take a winter by the swamp Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE, by JON VEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Because you have outrun your enemies Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Last Line: Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii REFUGEE DREAM, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: Last night you came to me Last Line: As if to a faraway country Subject(s): Dreams; Refugees REFUGEE MEMOIR, by HANS JUERGENSEN Poem Source First Line: Since over me the origins hung shadows Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE SCENES, by ANNE CASTON Poem Source First Line: The season of snow arrives Last Line: Has someone also put them out Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEE SHIP, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Say good-bye, veronica Last Line: And we may weave a wondrous cloth %for the life that laughs in your womb Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by YIORGOS CHOULIARAS Poem Source First Line: On the back Last Line: I don't know what to tell you Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by BONNIE ZUCKER GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: This man. %this woman Last Line: I brush by them when I pause %exhausted %with empty arms %onthe border between %two countries Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by CHAIM GRADE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: At night and in the wind and the rain Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by FLORENCE KREEGER HUNTING Poem Text First Line: Under cold stars they passed me by Last Line: "father, forgive this wrath that knows not what it does." Subject(s): Europe; Refugees REFUGEES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shabby train no seat is vacant Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: The wind is loaded with rain Last Line: We curse the monster that robs %the nests of innocent birds Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by ILYA KRICHEVSKY Poem Source First Line: On and on we go over steppes Last Line: To live is what we want, we want to live Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With prune-dark eyes, thick lips, jostling each other Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Refugees; War REFUGEES, by EDWARD LESLIE MAYO Poem Source First Line: By windowless and gutted shops where rain Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We walk through a lean land Last Line: Where love drinks dwindling air and panics. %this rush of rock-! Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Last Line: We must shape here a new philosophy Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii REFUGEES, by JANET SHELLY WHITE Poem Source First Line: They struggle along the rutted road Last Line: Even the mothers %even the children Subject(s): Refugees REFUGEES OF TUZLA, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: Pray for the others born Last Line: Born in their first long pants Subject(s): Refugees RETURNED CRANE, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: Then I land on the belfry Last Line: I was told I'd lose nothing %but my human flesh Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RUNNING TO AMERICA, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: They are night shadows %violating borders Last Line: Kissing black earth %then run to america Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration RURAL PARTICLES, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: Asters, yarrow, an enormous oak at the edge of the bank leading down Last Line: He won't be there to see, and it's time to go. It doesn't make sense at all. It's %something he unde Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SALT LONGING, by AUSTIN HUMMELL Poem Source First Line: Inland far though and away Last Line: Its scorched, ashen soil Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SCIENTIST, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: He was a refugee from a continent Last Line: Or last %to let angels die Subject(s): Politics; Refugees; Science SCOURED, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: My two daughters chase each other %in the laundromat, past the banks Last Line: I have nothing at all to give Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEIZURE, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: You spoke in a language only you could imagine Last Line: The entire hidden field, sparking and rumbling Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SEVEN & SEVEN, by PETER MEINKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back at it now he Last Line: Everything can be fixed o %lord anything can be fixed Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SHIPWRECK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three chinese in yellow coats stood on dunes, waist-high Last Line: Feeding everywhere. Subject(s): Disasters; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); James, Henry (1843-1916); Refugees; Shipwrecks; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Last Line: Anything for a minute. So that's what I said. They asked me %my name and I said I've forgotten Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Yiddish SIR HENRY CLINTON'S INVITATION TO THE REFUGEES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentlemen tories, firm, loyal, and true Last Line: Who are born to be hang'd, will never be shot. Subject(s): American Revolution; Clinton, Sir Henry (1738-1795); New York City; Refugees; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SIRENS OF LOS ANGELES, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: All summer as the blacktop softens, drugged Last Line: For land and feasting, longing to be poured Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SOME PEOPLE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people fleei some other people Subject(s): Refugees SORCERER, by XUEFEI JIN Poem Source First Line: When the slave arrived as %a tributary article from a vassal state Last Line: Though another sister of mine is widowed in her early teens Alternate Author Name(s): Jin, Ha; Ha Jin Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SOUL, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Each time I look at my friend's %red sunset maple, in season Last Line: Not even the occasional snick of a %delicate motor, %missing Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STEPS IN COMPOSITION: FOUR STUDENTS, by DIANE AVERILL Poem Source First Line: I %three years I spend in thailand refugee camp Last Line: Now, see if you can start a new paragraph Subject(s): Grammar; Refugees; Schools; Thailand STILL KICKING IN AMERICA, by G. S. SHARAT CHANDRA Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm older, %the old ones ask %the same questions Last Line: Hoping for words %to come out right in english Subject(s): Family Life - India; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration STRUNG UP IN ROBES OF GOLD, by PAUL WEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Claiming to be a war refugee Subject(s): Refugees SUNRISE, by H. PALMER HALL Poem Source First Line: A moment in the thicket, that time Last Line: Soft, moist, and in the light, white wings flutter Variant Title(s): Into The Thicket; Big Thicket Requie Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SURVIVOR'S SONG, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: All my good friends have gone away Last Line: There's nothing more I want to say Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration SYMMETRY, by BARRY BALLARD Poem Source First Line: This body's stretched with its patchwork tilled so Last Line: From a need for fences with no escapes? Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TEA FOR THE REFUGEE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Marvelling that the spirit known angular with hungers Last Line: Warfare of the mind. Subject(s): Refugees TESHUVAH, by LAMAR THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Gathering up all the dolphins %in my dreaming. %I'm coming home Last Line: Toward what must be made romantic %in a world that says no Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That second time they hunted me Last Line: It steals the time! To business now. Subject(s): Refugees; Italians In England THE MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: Character and beauty Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Minks Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE REFUGEES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shabby train no seat is vacant Subject(s): Refugees THE REFUGEES, by EDWIN MUIR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crack ran through our hearthstone long ago Subject(s): Refugees; World War Ii; Second World War THE REFUGEES' PETITION TO SIR GUY CARLETON, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humbly sheweth, that your honour's petitioners, tories by trade Last Line: We'll go to the rebels, and get our estates. -- Subject(s): American Revolution; Carleton, Sir Guy. 1st Baron Dorchester; Refugees THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THIEVES OF LIGHT, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We all knew about gus Last Line: I had to close my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THREE FOR MY FATHER: 2., by NEIL MYERS Poem Source First Line: Remember the refugees you took Last Line: Say I made a stone no mone %would bite Subject(s): Refugees TO A FRENCH POET AND REFUGEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is past - that time of little cheer Last Line: Bemoan the sorrows and defeats of france. Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Refugees TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country %by every roundabout Last Line: Because well-being needs a grief %to make the feeling last Subject(s): Literary Form; Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TO THE BOUGAINVILLAEA, by C. DALE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: How could I have imagined your absence? Last Line: And everywhere bougainvillaea, bougainvillaea Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; West Indies TODOROV AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The secret of narrative %in the sight of the lovely Last Line: To turn, as if spoken to %into what we represent Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TOWNS, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in midcentury %things spread out, scattered Last Line: Replied, 'yes. But our village %will not be here' Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TRANSLATING MY PARENTS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my father would growl, %wash the wares now, I always thought Last Line: As in zipper, as in zero, and write %it plainly, so I can read it Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO REFUGEES, by MORDECAI MARCUS Poem Source First Line: My father is a fugitive %from the villages of chagall Last Line: Puzzled me to blindness %and left him starved Subject(s): Refugees TWO SOUNDS, by MICHAEL H. BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Grandmother came here in the cargo hold Last Line: Which always fade, as I will, in the night Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TWO UNCERTAINTIES, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the attic bird, the century is silent Last Line: Please bind us to a version of ourselves Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration UNDERWATER, by HEATHER SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Well, we are underwater here and I am Last Line: Just one eye on the tiniest of the peculiar glowing fish Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VANITY OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, by JOHN BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Face it, michael. She never loved you. The ocean with as many lovers as there Last Line: Way memory spills when you try to remember, and all you get is sexless salt, %bisected water Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration VARIATIONS FOR HENDRIX AND VIETNAM, by MONIFA LOVE Poem Source First Line: We %not white %not yellow %corner sounds Last Line: A circle of grey petals %at our feet %quiet Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WAITING ON FAMILY COURT, by JEFF KNORR Poem Source First Line: I know little of lawyers and courts Last Line: After grandfather's slick-handled %brushes are hung, away on their nails Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WALKING BACK, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: I have no business here, a bearded stranger Last Line: On the last bell, rubs the shiny nickel in his pocket Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHAT HURTS, by GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT Poem Source First Line: We are called broken %because we do not humor the age Last Line: We break them with our brokenness %until they are broken too Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WHEN I WAS A REFUGEE, by BEATRICE JEAN K. BOROFF Poem Text First Line: She clasped my hand, this good samaritan Last Line: My strength is god. He is my staff, my power. Subject(s): Kindness; Refugees; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHEREABOUTS, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Isn't it odd how anyone who disappeared Last Line: Just before fadeout, their famous last scene Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WILLIE AND THE TRAIN, by CARISSA NEFF Poem Source First Line: Willie carsten opens the bakery early Last Line: Take my chances %like immigrants did Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WIND CHILL FACTOR, by GLORIA VANDO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You point to a photo of your family Last Line: Into a perfect circle at the nape of my neck, %insulating me, still, against the chill Variant Title(s): Wind-chill Facto Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YEARS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's russian/ %english dictionary-she must Last Line: Newspapers spill %the years into my eyes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: / a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: What he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: %a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: Then study his lips, wondering if I'll be able to decipher %what he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration YOU, IF NO ONE ELSE, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, you %who transformed your anguish Last Line: In this round hour now %where your voice strikes time Subject(s): Loss; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration |
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