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We are Proud Transgender People (a poem by a trans refugee)
We are who we are
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We love who love us
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We love who hate us
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We love our Gender
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Call us Girls /
@etherealtherapy
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Refugee
Teary eyes with heavy heart,
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Moving towards a new land
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A place where I will be called a refugee
@shubhwicked
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REFUGEE FROM A RAINBOW
I see you at my door,
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huddled against the night
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in your Kermit-green jacket
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and purple pants /
@andrew-m-bell
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Syrian child washes ashore
salt stings wounds
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salt stings eyes, entering, leaving...
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healing, healing. The sea will take yo
@h-w-erellson
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Refugee For Love
*"every heart, every heart, to love must come, but like a refugee."*
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Be wary, little, pretty one:
@mike-essig
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Spirit
I've repainted the wall
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and dusted the shelf
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as very soon I will become
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myself.
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I've given b
@SazKells
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The Last Gardener of Aleppo
Do green fingers still pull triggers?
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Or do they only till the fields of hair?
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Ploughing furrows
@storygiver
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entry 7
my mind may have layers
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stairs and levels
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twisting
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and turning
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halls and rooms
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but don't b
@ghost_memoirs
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Addiction
I came here to seek refuge
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I came here and slept in refuse
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And when I searched for help, I found
@stripperthoughts
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Cockroach and Maiden
The cockroaches surrounded but one
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Fair
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Maiden;
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Seeking Singapore and suns absent the, “other.
@liam-c-calhoun
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Pressed flowers
are like some people,
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they are victimized to death
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within one's palm
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they're taken down and th
@Aziza
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Refugees in Search of Refuge
As we walk,
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The grass bends beneath our feet,
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The stars whisper secrets we do not understand, /
@uncaged
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OutSider
*When you've grown up being
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called a stranger wherever
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you go, you learn to make
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home of whate
@ignatius-hosiana
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2k
Refugee
A lifejacket whistle becomes a toy
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Instead of a call for help
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Chilling new games on the beach /
@jhilmil-breckenridge
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Love Me Tender
I saw you walk away from me, your eyes like burnt pastries
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Tasteless was your gaze and tainted was
@Atalanta
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The Refugee
I was born into this
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I had no choice
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I love my war-torn country
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It is, er, was my home
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But I
@neville-johnson
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The Immigration Act of 1917.
The Immigration Act
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of 1917,
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barred
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"all idiots & imbeciles,
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feeble-minded persons,
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epilep
@martin-bailes
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1.9k
Refugee
There is more to a refugee than what you see,
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behind the closed doors lies tragedy surely,
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often
@mark-donnelly
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1.8k
Modern Refugee
When I was a child, I was told the story of my Grandfathers mother she was a refugee from mother Rus
@MichaelKreitman
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1.7k
Libya dreams
Look at the child with the rifle
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She's posing for a photo
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She just doesn't know what it means. /
@z-atari
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Nature's own refugee
A sallowest silence drips,
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drop by drop,
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into open muddy palms
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The ripple in the gathering cup
@wildisthewind
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