National Poetry Month: Day #28

Today the challenge was to find a news article, and to write a poem using (mostly, if not only) words from the article!

the ordeal

desperate

he hopped a fence
bound for Hawaii
despite dangers
he stowed away.

desperate.

displaced in ethiopia.
a somali woman
in a stick hut
weeps

desperate

distraught and alarmed
clutching her headscarf
she waits and hopes
to reunite.