This is very true wandiola.
Immigrants always do have culture shock at first.
I love the fact that the metaphors you used could easily compare to the topic.

'Cos you become a pear in a critical world of perfect apples
-wonderful line there.^^

Keep writing.^^

Posted: May 4, 2008

True word there, Wandiola. Because of what I do I meet lots of immigrants, some good some bad, some make it and too many don't.

Good work!

Posted: May 4, 2008

whew, its so nice :) I love it... your one great writer eyy :)

Posted: May 5, 2008

Hey there!
I like this poem.
Very easy to read and the flow is just great.
But deep in meaning as well.
Keep it up!

Posted: May 6, 2008

another lovely poem here, though no moon in sight. Sometimes we criticise immigrants or treat them like second class citizens, but if you put yourself in their situation it must be very frightening at times and very lonely? R u an immigrant?

Posted: May 7, 2008

I'm not an immigrant. I was born and bred in England. However, I can imagine this was how my parents felt when they first came here. This was great. I can't wait to read more of your stuff.

Keep up the great work Wandy.

Olola.

Posted: May 9, 2008

Oh, yeah, I think its a hard time to be an immigrant in the US. But, I really am surprised that people don't flock to your English accent! I'm in Kansas, but most people here flip for it. I loved your poem and the message. I hope things keep improving for you in Texas.

Posted: May 10, 2008

hi! W. this and worse is the fate of an immigrant, immigrating to a first world country for they're considered uneducated and ignorant. if everyone could "Mould that one pear, into a new shining apple," it'd be another story. u relate to today. ;-)

Posted: May 15, 2008

AWW some one else who's an immigrant to the US. I was born in Alberta, Canada and only moved to the States recently. It is much of a culture shock moving from one place to another.
You captured that very well.!!
~Kaori

Posted: May 15, 2008

Great Poem ! I think and I'll keep thinking that the USA would never be this rich country without the help of the Imigrants. The Americans don't like to get their hands dirty , so any foreign one can do this work, once that must of the American got no Academical formation. Great that you have written about it .

Posted: May 17, 2008

Very interesting perspective. I loved reading it. I definately think it's very applicable in the US these days.

Posted: May 17, 2008

it is always difficult for the inmigrants,until they get addapted......

Posted: May 20, 2008

wow i for one love foreign people!!

Posted: May 29, 2008

I like the poem, it's so deep. I couldn't get the song to play,though. Give diz poem a 9.5 out of 10.

Posted: Jun 4, 2008

A fascinating take on the inner-turmoil of being an immigrant. We are so comfortable and arrogant sometimes with our American lives that we tend to be apethetic to anyone new or different. No one should have to be molded from a pear to an apple, but a mixture of the two could make a delicious treat. Nice.

Posted: Jun 6, 2008

I LOVED THIS ONE....I WISH THIS IS PUBLISHED EVERYWHERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE AND READ AND LEARN.....

HOW BAD IMMIGRANTS ARE TREATED WORLDWIDE ESP IN UK AND USA....OTHER PLACES R ALSO NOT FAR BEHIND....SICKENING....

HOW TRUE....THE WORDS, THE EMOTIONS , THE FEELINGS....WANDY, I TELL YOU BUDDY....U GOT GOD'S BLESSINGS TO SOOTHE SOULS WITH UR WRITING....

I LOVED THESE LINES FROM UR POEM....
Don't you know we can bring your life a whole new culture?

Immerse you into a completly different lifestyle

Ingross you with our own diverse world

Your part is simple

so so simple


Mould that one pear, into a new shining apple.

You'll be suprised just how much, your little box will change.


EVEN IF THE APPLES DON'T ACCEPT THE PEAR, DOESNOT MATTER, PEAR WILL BE LUCKY ALWAYS.....

Posted: Jun 6, 2008

PRATIBHA IS RIGHT!
Immigrants are treated like outcasts in the U.S. In my school those stupid kids'll literally follow you around teasing and getting on your nerves,(I got into many fights that way).
They work their tails off just to come here and get a living and when they do, everyone turns their backs at them. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and if you say that you've lived there or your family is from there you suddenly get cast aside like a ragdoll. The truth is just that whenever they see someone different they suddenly hate you and everyone like you...and well, THAT JUST AIN'T RIGHT!

*takes a deep breath*
sorry that i got a little carried away back there...
wonderful poem! I'm going to post it on my links and i'll post it on myspace and del.is.ous.com...You'll be hearing from a lot more ppl buddy!

Posted: Jun 24, 2008

I love your poem, I'm going to share it with my class of fifth graders so they can get a better understanding of what it is like for immigrants.
I was wondering about the line "Mould that one pear into a shining new apple". I'm interpreting it as that you want to be like everyone else. The whole melting pot perspective that wants everyone who comes to the US to give up their own culture just to fit in.
Is that how immigrants still feel today? You talked about bringing new culture for the "apples" to experience, but if you become an apple too then what happened to everything the pear believed in?
This is just my own interpretation and you could have meant something else.

Your poem is awesome and it really made me think:)

Posted: Sep 24, 2008