Showing posts with label Refugee poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Refugee poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Poems for Trump #21 Chuckles.

Chuckles

CHUCKLES ...

Giulani ...
looking much like
a radiated & mutant tortoise
from the walking dead,
& the always golden-hearted
Judge Jeanine Pirro
casually chat
on Fox News
all chuckles & smiles
about Muslim bans
& refugees,
while youngsters
languish in camps,
die in cities,
get cold
in mountains.

Chuckle on
you two
chuckle on.

Poems for Trump #18 In case you didn't know ...

In case

In case you didn’t know.

Just in case,
you know,
just filling you in,
a word in your ear,
having a little
mention
& such,
Muslims breathe air,
like snacks,
wear clothes,
bite into apples,
make babies,
just like us.
Some like soccer,
Monopoly,
Spongebob Squarepants,
even going for
a short walk,
actually
just
like us.
They too marvel
at the starry night sky,
caress soft fur,
love their children,
read books,
like music,
which is
just
like us.
The fact
this needs
pointing out,
is a tragedy
of such proportion
that my poem
just ends
right
here …

Poems for Trump #16 Maryam Hani.

Maryam Hani

Maryam Hani
is six years old
is from Iraq
has leukemia
& now lives
in a
refugee
camp.
So now the sick
& desperate children
of a country
the U.S. invaded
for little reason
& bombed
to all hell,
are now barred
from this
Shining City
on a
Hill,
this Home of
The Brave.
Maryam Hani

Poems for Trump #15 Quebec.


Quebec ...

6 Muslims
were killed
in Canada
in one day
last week,
this is
a higher
figure
than that
of Americans
killed by refugees
over the last
20 years,
the killer
was a white guy,
a Supremacist,
and as far as
I know
Trump has shared
not a word
of sympathy
or condolence
on this tragic
crime,
as of today,
not
a
single
solitary
word.
Quebec

Poems for Trump #13 The Immigration Act ...

The Immigration Act of 1917

The Immigration Act
of 1917,
barred
"all idiots & imbeciles,
feeble-minded persons,
epileptics,
insane persons,
... persons with chronic alcoholism;
paupers,

& professional beggars,
and those with tuberculosis"
It barred ...
"felons,
polygamists,
prostitutes
& their traffickers."
Trump & Bannon's
Immigration Act of 2017
bars Muslims,
able-bodied Muslims,
needy Muslims,
starving Muslims,
fleeing Muslims.
Muslims in refugee camps,
student doctor Muslims,
short-sighted Muslims,
limping Muslims,
school-teacher Muslims,
ordinary Muslims,
in a word,
Muslims.

Immigration Act