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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is pretty powerful. A poem with a twist called "Refugees"
(Seeing as how my last OP in GD went over like a lead balloon - about the Super Bowl - I'll try and atone! )
I found this on Twitter
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This is pretty powerful. A poem with a twist called "Refugees" (Original Post)
A HERETIC I AM
Mar 2023
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tblue37
(65,275 posts)1. K&R & thanks!
malaise
(268,885 posts)2. Get thee to the greatest pAge
RFN!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,888 posts)3. WOW
Atticus
(15,124 posts)4. Thank you for the clever verse. nt
Emrys
(7,227 posts)5. Brian Bilston has been described as the poet laureate of Twitter
That's his pen name, his real one is Paul Millicheap.
He wrote "Refugees" in 2016. Here's an extended BBC profile of him from that year: 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter'
Here's another of his:
Here's his website: https://brianbilston.com/
And here's his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/brian_bilston
I've given his collections You Took the Last Bus Home, Diary of a Somebody and Alexa, what is there to know about love? to my serious poetry buff wife on successive Christmases, and she's loved them.
malaise
(268,885 posts)6. Thanks for this