Best Relocation Poems

Moved everything here to be with you, 
What more did you want me to do,
Let my job go so I could be in your world,
Then my settled life became unfurled,

These eyes watch you turn my world to an end, 
These arms long to hold you...

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Saw a man at a snowy bus stop

Tall and lean

Black as black can be

Probably in his Sunday best

This Monday morning.

My guess Sudanese.

Here on compassionate grounds

Home country ripped apart

Tribal and religious strife.

What might he have seen Lord?

What atrocities and robbery?

What loved ones abandoned?

With no other apparent...

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We’ve moved
my wife and I from home 
to the last place

we’ll ever live and she 
wants to know why 
I’m sitting around

not helping to unpack.
So I tell her the problem
which is her problem too

but she keeps unpacking.
I’m not at home, I tell her,
but I’m not...

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People flocked round badly hurt Paul,
Ten minutes ago had a fall
While he was playing rough football...
And they had to a doctor call, 
Then with chess players in a hall, 
Loved more than the card's near a mall
"No! His treatment not in this hall, 
For not...

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