Responding to Refugees

Refugees by Brian Bilston

They have no need of our help

So do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

Should life have dealt a different hand

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and scroungers

Layabouts and loungers

With bombs up their sleeves

Cut-throats and thieves

They are not

Welcome here

We should make them

Go back to where they came from

They cannot

Share our food

Share our homes

Share our countries

Instead let us

Build a wall to keep them out

It is not okay to say

These are people just like us

A place should only belong to those who are born there

Do not be so stupid to think that

The world can be looked at another way

This poem is a very powerful poem. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

I certainly agree because it has a reason why it is written

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Some people will disagree with this poem. Why do you think?

They don’t think this poem will change the world

Why do you think Brian Bilston wrote this poem? So people know t

hat we can share countries, not like one country takes over another. 

Who is the target audience for this poem? Everybody

If you could choose the most powerful line in this poem, what would it

be and why?The world can be looked at another way. Because the

world CAN be looked in a another way

What do you think of when you hear the word refugee? People moving

to another country

What are refugees? When other people invade another country and they

have to move to another country

Find out some stories about refugees around the world. Create a DLO to

teach others about your findings. Examples - Syrian refugees,

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