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Come Harvest Home, Extracts from a Migrant’s Diary

Copyright R. N. Taber 2017

Dreaming of distant lands,
sapphire seas, golden sands, treasures
of mind, body and spirit
equal to none, prize worthy of a poem,
cannot be counted out in coin

Dreaming of distant shores,
where birds sing a welcome in the ear,
reflected in the shy smile
of a passer-by, equal to none for peace
and love, cue for a better life

Dreams of landing on the moon,
peering back through time and space,
seeing how Here and Now
offers so much more than once a place
to call home before crisis-hit

Waking to street sounds roaring
like a pride of hungry lions hunting prey
in a concrete jungle,
no sapphire sea, golden sand, birdsong
a warning, wishing them gone

Waking to damp stains on walls,
courtesy of landlords whose first language
a prose counted out in coin,
invested in one-upmanship, measure
of nouveau custom status

Yet, an unconditional welcome
from skylarks at dawn and late nightingales
where nature sings its songs
of freedom, risen above human graffiti
(silent witness to hate crime)

No picture postcard, this Here and Now,
but a treasure of mind, body, and spirit equal
to none, prize well worthy
of a poem sowing seeds of peace and love;
endgame, harvest home...

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