know not why we ran away from home lands,
know not how to fit in the new lands!
in the depths of our hearts still there must be a beat,
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Loved the subdued plea: very poignant, all lines charged with deep emotion. Wish I could open up like that and let emotions pour out when I write a poem, but I'm more like a fortress, content with merely hurling little snippets of cerebral musings over the battlements.
Nature! ! Unsafe. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
Thanks for inviting me to comment on your poems, I've read a few pieces from your portfolio and find them colorful and interesting, imagery's appealing, I believe English is not your mother language, and it sometimes shows which frankly inhibit the joy of reading it for UK and American readers, you might want to explore the option to write your poems in two languages British English and German and be active in two geographical markets, good luck–
Beautiful poem, thank you for sharing, it speaks great truth, not only for Roma people but could be the same for immigrants, for all the uprooted people and why not for any plant carried by the wind or human hand...As you previously said in another poem nature balance itself. All we need is will for peace and harmony.
It's with a full certain sadness that forces by force the good out.. iip
reflective and deep... contemporary isssue....in olden times led to epics like biographies and saved snippets of history and knowledge...invaluable then and now... today a totally diff overlay has cjhanged the complxion of this intercourse... written with deep insight and feeling well done cheers
I love the way you used words to tell the emotions of moving it was very good!
You convey the complex emotions of moving to a foreign land beautifully Alf
i can feel the message of this poem...i can fully realte since our history complement with it
in the depths of our hearts still there must be a beat, that no one cares to understand or to repeat it! ...........................evocatively ingenious, utterly feeling of love for own land as when in far off from and its beauty by its culture awakes rocking the heart....10++, thank for sharing
People ran away froom their homelands for many different reasons. A well penned poem.