THIS POEM WAS UPDATED Where is your heart, Riikka Purra? Did you throw it away in a trash can? Or did you hungrily devour it after you saw your first refugee The bricks that line your political path will turn red hot and melt your shoe soles; even if you can only be tall for…
Tag: Migrant Tales Literary
Migrant Tales Literary: Dedicated to asylum seeker in cell 406*
By Dana I have some questions for both the Finnish people and foreigners who live in Finland. What do you think about laws that work against humanity? About laws that send you to your execution? Those laws are policies that take the person and kill him /her with a gun or with a rope. What…
Migrant Tales Literary: La vida entera
Ignacio Pérez Pérez La vida entera Pa escribir un poema El mismo poema lloroso Con pizcas de comedia Y romanticismo rancio La cosa son estas nubes grises El bansuri en tus audífonos Las caras de piedra alrededor El mantra de un amigo: “No temo: yo amo” Aquí conmigo como amuleto La lentitud es una virtud…
Migrant Tales Literary: Estoy aquí
por Ignacio Pérez Pérez* ESTOY AQUI Qué más le queda A un pobre diablo como yo Más que estar en el infierno Hellsinki se llama esto Lo digo en broma pero hablo en serio El frío es un incendio Vengo del reino del sol A ésta noche blanca que quema Abro mi tercer ojo Veo:…
Migrant Tales Literary: Would you buy a used car from PS’ Timo Soini?
Timo Soini is chairman of the nationalist populist Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. After the most recent opinion polls showed that the political future of the PS is bleak to say the least, what will Soini do after his party returns to the minor political leagues? Will he start to sell used cars?
Dana: Open racist wave
Migrant Tales insight: After a year and six months I got an email from Dana, who has written many beautiful and powerful poems for us. I was delighted to hear from her after such a long time. Those who remember, the passing away of her parents in such a short time was a terrible blow…
Camilla Edström Ödemark (March 29, 2015): Exposing White Voids
Camilla Edström Ödemark is an artist from Åland who moved from her native Mariehamn to Sweden after she graduated from high school. Her artwork hits a sensitive spot especially if you’re in that sometimes challenging situation of adapting to a new country. Ödemark says that her work focuses on what or who is “abnormal” or…
Migrant Tales Literary: A return in Pixles
I pulled out my laptop and went on Google Earth. I typed in my mother’s childhood home address, but Google Earth didn’t recognize any matching location. I decided to turn to my mother and carried the spacecraft-like laptop to her. After placing it on top of an orange table mat, I asked her to help me…
Anonymous: Humanity ushers
By Anonymous Humanity humanity we speak of issues of humanity can`t stay tight-lipped against brutality spur reactions toward our predicament deliberate on issues of humanity humanity………………….……. humanity you are a fresh breath against worlds insanity enlightens on pervading concerns against humanity draw boundary between humanity and inhumanity you spell genuine surface of humanity quell…
Migrants Tales Literary: Two poems by Anonymous
Below are two poems by Anonymous that she wants to share with our readers. “When I lived [in a city*] in Finland, I couldn’t use the phone or email because I had no money or any income assistance from the social office for 20 months,” Anonymous said. “This happened in 2013.” * The name of…