{"id":108003,"date":"2015-11-26T00:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.wordpress.com\/?p=108003"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T13:07:13","slug":"poetry-from-refugee-camps-25-nov-2015-by-paul-mc-ilhelley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/2015\/11\/26\/poetry-from-refugee-camps-25-nov-2015-by-paul-mc-ilhelley\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#8211; From  refugee camps  25 Nov 2015                                        By Paul McElhinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content clear\">\n<p>The Jungle\u2019s highway, where the refugees travel<br \/>\nTents sinking in the mud, amidst the harsh gravel.<br \/>\nContinents are crossed to reach this place,<br \/>\nWould it be so hard for us to offer an embrace?<\/p>\n<p>From Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia,<br \/>\nVaried people flood into this modern dystopia.<br \/>\nThey make their way from Iraq and Syria,<br \/>\nHearts full of hope, that they\u2019ll meet the criteria.<\/p>\n<p>An act of brave and untold desperation,<br \/>\nThousands dreaming of their legalisation,<br \/>\nHope for a life not beset by brutality,<br \/>\nWhere now is our western morality?<\/p>\n<p>We take for granted safety and security,<br \/>\nWhilst they fade into complete obscurity,<br \/>\nThey fly from their oppressive regimes,<br \/>\nWould we not all share similar dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Hope and despair are sisters here,<br \/>\nPeople come and go and just disappear,<br \/>\nSuch beauty in the small things of life,<br \/>\nNot having to worry about previous strife.<\/p>\n<p>Every night, the bold dance with the trains,<br \/>\nAnd we just casually scrape up their remains,<br \/>\n\u201cShit, our bloody train has been delayed<br \/>\nFuck giving more of that foreign aid\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where is our compassion and solidarity?<br \/>\nWith our brothers and sisters in humanity.<br \/>\nWhat sort of world do we leave behind?<br \/>\nFor the next generation of mankind\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"_5yl5\">\u00a0<\/span>Paul McElhinney<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a refugee camp somewhere in Europe:\u00a0 https:\/\/therovingaye.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/15\/poetry\/#more-2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A public reading of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pvmUWKRTSqQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">another Paul McElhinney poem<\/a> on the Underground, in London:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jungle\u2019s highway, where the refugees travel Tents sinking in the mud, amidst the harsh gravel. Continents are crossed to reach this place, Would it be so hard for us to offer an embrace? From Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Varied people flood into this modern dystopia. They make their way from Iraq and Syria, Hearts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-108003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["gb","es","fr","pt","ru","no","ar"],"languages":{"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"pt":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"no":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballagainstapartheid.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}