WithoutBorders

Sharing poetry and stories of immigrants, travelers, and people who live, above and beyond their borders - Our stories are without borders!

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“Our next issue of the Without Borders Magazine hopes to be a collective journal of our thoughts, feelings and experiences of 2020 in order to process and get past these feelings and thoughts for better healing and for a life...” — Florence Wanjiku https://t.co/WkmytIZkLE

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“Republican or Democrat doesn’t matter. The new boss is the same as the old boss — big business.” — @JimLatham15 https://t.co/wzMGrdkrnm

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“For now let this poem be those footsteps which you need to listen. For now let this poem pull my words from wihin. Somehow we need to talk. Suddenly too much silence. Suddenly night is too dark. Let this poem reach you even if it…” — @notyet100
https://t.co/jZKqku193f

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“sometimes you need to change the rules
for the sake of others.” —@notyet100
  https://t.co/6VOWJlMN22

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Stories of Ramadan — A Month of Fasting, Celebration, and Coming Together by @sabeena_writes https://t.co/ZEt1hVKDM9

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“if there is a dreamland take me there
I am tired of the real life” — Priyanka Srivastava https://t.co/nI0rcQy4an

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“What does each person need,
myself included,
in these uncertain times?” — Corina Oana https://t.co/zZ5ONdOxd0

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“I grew up in California — in wine country no less — where I witnessed firsthand the xenophobia and racism directed by the state and federal government, not to mention private citizens, toward Mexican-Americans and other Latinx people.” — @JimLatham15 https://t.co/XUInQGsaSW

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“The quetzal does not speak, does not say that pre-colonial Mayan rulers used its feathers in their headdresses.” — @JimLatham15 https://t.co/XUInQGsaSW

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“ see the remnants of memories looking back from the shelf waiting to be awakened. We don’t plan holidays now. We just have one wish list. To meet family in India soon.” —@notyet100
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“You know, the good thing about having a family is that we can be the cushions for each other. When my reserves of faith are dwindling, I know that somebody here will be able to lift me up. And the same goes the other way.” — Javier Ortega Araiza

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“my poems are shadowed by that virus
I can’t stop writing about that sadness.
one day I won’t need the screen to see your smile.
one day we will meet without any mask.” — @notyet100
https://t.co/Q89r3OIT5k

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“her life was full of postcard memories,
some which she had lost with time,
some which she had hidden in the pages of book
some which she would show off to the world.” —@notyet100
https://t.co/gEb6FBy7bd

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“The alphabets in the word HOME
they keep scattering in my mind.
Some days I pick the pieces
other time I let them become stars.” — @notyet100
https://t.co/ubPd6rt35f

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“we carry the weight of those dreams which we abandoned
we try to stay safe by not crossing that line.
with time we learn to safeguard our anxiety
we know that some days it is better to hide.” — @notyet100
https://t.co/GqY27RDZBn

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In response to @woborders writing prompt a poem by the amazing poet and writer Priyanka Srivastava. (@notyet100)

“The April clouds are looming in the sky.
The poems are ready to journey in the mind.” 
https://t.co/14DgNStLHu

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“��� I am enough for myself.” -@notyet100
https://t.co/14DgNStLHu

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“Hopes and dreams had broken free
from the shackles of popular opinions
and the subjugation of the twisted patriarchy.
Not defined by any need —
to see your heart bleed twice as much as a uterus can,
…” — @DAbbohjustwrite https://t.co/Z7wxqrQLll

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I’m Cutting Ties with My Home Country by Chetna Jai https://t.co/JrPyggh5FY

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We are excited for any and all writing prompts coming up for National Poetry Month!!! Here is one you don't want to miss by @ShabdAaweg @notyet100 https://t.co/8vSUk7zokg