Thought for the Day? - things haven't changed much

[cbd2cai 0]

America

in the poems of Walt Whitman

Langston Hughes

Allen Ginsberg

the songs of Woody Guthrie

and Joan Baez

I made you mine

rushing to you

at night and daybreak

by air and water--

on the land

getting a social security number

in the year nineteen hundred seventy

passing through barbed wires

and waiting for hours in the INS lobbies

facing grouchy secretaries

overwhelmed by the languages

they can't speak and accents

they can't enjoy

Ali Zarrin (Iranian American poet)

[incanada1234 0]

This guy sounds appreciative.

Edited February 2, 2006 by approvemedammit

[Fuzzness 2]

I like it

[cbd2cai 0]

I got the poem from an email I receive weekly from a Dallas area international organization:DFW International

Here's something from the Irish side of the house:

[

I lately took the notion

To cross the briny ocean

And I’m off to Philadelphia in the morning.

Thousands are sailing

Across the Western Ocean

To a land of opportunity

That some of them will never see

Fortune prevailing

Across the Western Ocean

Their bellies full

And their spirits free

They'll break the chains of poverty!

(Irish immigrant's song, 1892)

Edited February 2, 2006 by cbarrosmostafa

[pedroh 21]

America

in the poems of Walt Whitman

Langston Hughes

Allen Ginsberg

the songs of Woody Guthrie

and Joan Baez

I made you mine

rushing to you

at night and daybreak

by air and water--

on the land

getting a social security number

in the year nineteen hundred seventy

passing through barbed wires

and waiting for hours in the INS lobbies

facing grouchy secretaries

overwhelmed by the languages

they can't speak and accents

they can't enjoy

Ali Zarrin (Iranian American poet)

wow.. that is great.. specially the last part.. very deep

[almaty 19]

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