By Dana Finland is a cowardly and paranoic country that does not believe in humanity. But I respect humanity because GOD is the great Creator of man, and all of God’s creatures are important and valuable to me. Man is a creature of God. I am a disciple of truth, and the truth is my
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Dana’s Alppikulma diary: 10 homeless people and others
MAY 19: Yesterday, in front of the Alppikulma gate, more than 10 homeless people were waiting at 5 o’clock to enter the building. A foreigner from an African country who shaves his head is under so much pressure that he does strange things. But I will only describe his work yesterday. He has to carry
Read on »Dana’s Alppikulma diary (May 18 and 19)
Migrant Tales comment: Our longtime editor, Dana, has promised to update a diary of her life in Alppikulma, a shelter for the homeless. We publish this for others to know what a special woman Dana is but to get an insight into the lives of the homeless. Today, 18. May. 2021 was a rainy day,
Read on »Dana: Finland’s black case
Finland is a country of addiction, alcohol, and drugs, but there are no facts in its newspapers.Finland is a land of garbage and cigarette butts and spit; the streets are full of cigarette butts and spit and feces and piss of dogs. But no one cares. There is no smoking only in front of the Parliament
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Galactic prayer
By Dana دعای کهکشانیای خدایا دستهایم را بگیر، مرا با خود به آسمانها ببر، به زیبایی و شکوه بی نظیرکهکشانها ببرای خدا نامم را صدا کن، کنارم بیا و کلماتم را ادا کن، مرا به سرزمینهایی ببر که تنها باشم، تنهای تنهای تنها• از فنلاند دورم کن که در امنیت و زنده و فرخنده و پا برجا
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Canary of light
By Dana رقناری آی قناریها برایم آواز بخوانید چون من اسیر دست فنلاندم، گرفتارم در یک قفس در بندماین قفس جنس آتشی دارد، بی نور و پنجره، نگهبان و پلیس های زشت وحشی و پا پتی دارد. فنلاند کشور سیاهچاله هاست، کشور شکنجه و قحطی و درد و مرگ و بلاست.من در این کشور بدام افتادم، بالهایم را شکستند و پاهایم
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: God, my commander
By Dana Alone, solo and it is hard to fight, O GODYes, in the depths of darkness and dancing is pain O GOD GOD Tearing under the clutches of enemies and slaveryIt is hard to roll in blood and be silent and shut up, O GOD GOD suffocates the songs of the heart and smiles?Yes,
Read on »Welcome back Dana!
Migrant Tales insight: Dana is a talented poet from Iran and a victim of the Finnish Immigration Service. I met her through this blog in 2012. I wrote back in 2015: “After a year and six months, I got an email from Dana, who has written many beautiful and powerful poems for us. I was
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Dedicated to asylum seeker in cell 406*
By Dana I have some questions for both the Finnish people and foreigners who live in Finland. What do you think about laws that work against humanity? About laws that send you to your execution? Those laws are policies that take the person and kill him /her with a gun or with a rope. What
Read on »Dana: Stand up Finland this is your moment of truth
Dana Who are you if you’re afraid of a hijab and a woman?… this is what she chose, not your problem, not mine, are you really human? Who are you if you afraid of color?… are you working for Satan, is it your favor? Who are you if you afraid of black beards?… world will
Read on »Dana: Open racist wave
Migrant Tales insight: After a year and six months I got an email from Dana, who has written many beautiful and powerful poems for us. I was delighted to hear from her after such a long time. Those who remember, the passing away of her parents in such a short time was a terrible blow
Read on »Dana: Ymmärrättekö Finland – wild culture, wild picture and wild future
Dana How long will I have to endure these racist attacks and hostile looks? And what’s wrong with being a foreigner in Finland anyway? There are no rainbows here if there’s only one color: white. No matter how much you paint your society white, I’m alive and will always feel victorious before you. I have
Read on »Dana: You are not welcome in Finland – go back to where you came from!
By Dana Yes, who invited you here? If you don’t like it here, why don’t you go back to where you came from? This statement is aimed to tire and weaken you. It’s a dark trick with a dark ending for you. And who knows about those dark goals better than I? Back home you
Read on »Finnish Immigration Service terrorizes immigrants (Part II)
By Dana Why are we all so passive if we’re oppressed? What do you fear? What will you fear losing? Money? Benefits? What, then? Where’s your humanity? Who makes up your mind for you? Who controls your thoughts? How do you build and make your morals and values stronger each day? What is your religion?
Read on »Finnish Immigration Service terrorizes immigrants (Part I)
By Dana The Finnish Immigration Service (FIS) strikes terror in immigrants like me. I’ve lived for three years in uncertainty not knowing if I’d ever be reunited with my family. My mother died in May and my father in July. I hadn’t seen my beloved parents for seven years. I never thought that the last time
Read on »Dana: Forbidden questions
By Dana Questions need answers, silence is not an answer, silence has no wave, without a wave you can’t move, without a wave u cant build, without a wave you go and give up, without a wave u can’t wake up. 1. Is Sauli Niinisto your favor president? Why, if yes? Why not? Can you answer this
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Sharp-sighted bird and the Yellow Crocodile Kingdom
By Dana Once upon a day there were a pair of birds who made their first egg… after a short while the egg broke and a female baby bird emerged and tweeted her first song… Her parents were shocked and asked how come the little bird was so different from other ones…the bird had big
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Death
By Dana Death is calling me, caaall calling Because my life is a bore, booore bore Death is teaching me, hooow… why That i may enjoy Mama’s company, hiiigh high. Death is calling my name, oh that’s well Because in Finland i have nothing to heal Death is calling my heart, wow its dark Finnish
Read on »Darling Baba (Dad): You no longer need a visa to Finland
MT comment: I was sorry to hear from Dana that her father passed away. Two months ago her mother left her. She had been waiting for three years to bring her parents to her side under Finland’s strict family reunification law, which was tightened in 2011. Finland shows its human face by accepting refugees but then
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Hey Universe, Finnish Law beats me up
By Dana Dear universe, This is my lonely life in Finland… Finnish law beats me up in different ways, no/one nowhere takes responsibility; there’s not one place in Helsinki that i can go to complain about my loneliness and separation from my loved ones. No/one will listen to me because if i ask a question
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Moment of my world
By Dana Can you see the happiness of a tree when it is dancing with the wind? When the wind sings a song of war can you listen and move forward? Can you talk with the wet grass under your feet? Or can you dance with your big tears? Can you laugh when you cry?
Read on »Letter from Dana: This is especially for you Enrique Tessieri
MT Comment: Dana’s letter is humbling to say the least and proves that we have the strength as a community to change matters. The words and opinions we publish can move mountains, or at least those mountains that reside in us. Thank you Dana. ___________ By Dana I’m standing up for me…for my spirit… for me
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Mark or question mark
By Dana Source: www.aumethodists.org White or yellow or one step until yellow …Finish the race??? The question mark means that it is a question for you, so this story wants your ideas; u can prove them, ur idea as u wish. This is a colorful question so it isn’t an easy question to answer… but if
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Suomi tai Suola, Saltland or Finland (Part II)
By Dana Before a storm everything looks great but it will come and it will break and destroy perfectly Wind will clean all happiness And trees will cry their best When a sun can’t make you happy And when a rain is a curse When a child is singing about death And old men and
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Suomi tai Suola, Saltland or Finland (Part I)
By Dana YES, that’s it! Risk-land and jail-land What is the opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize? Is there a Nobel Ignoring Prize or such a prize in the world? I mean a Nobel that could be given to people who neglect others? For sure Finland does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize and never
Read on »Dana: Woes for you killers who kill without a knife
By Dana Why should I personally challenge Finland’s disgraceful family reunification obstacles? I won’t. Why should I? For whom? For other foreigners? But some abuse the laws. Not only some foreigners but some Finns too. I paid, as a result, a high price for their ways. Some foreigners live here for years, or maybe they
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: What Color is the Finnish Government?
By Dana There is a fist on earth, saying stop this crime oh human There is a fist on parliament, shouting stop the lie oh liar men Unresponsive Helsinki, there is a city in Saami -land Has a shame building in it, there is a city in Finnish – land Sham parliament, raw members oh
Read on »WHO?
By Dana Who takes responsibility for the racist crimes in Finland? Is that an easy question? The answer? Is that a difficult question?..it needs an answer, however, because it is a question. I have right to ask whom? Whom? The President of Finland? What responsibilities does a president have in Finland? Parliament? Ministries? What do
Read on »My Conscience Your Conscience
By Dana Who has conscience? Who doesn’t have conscience? Finnish law doesn’t because it made a deep wound in me and it could not feel it did anything bad, oh nothing at all. So why is this law so cruel to me and my situation??? Because it isn’t wise…. because wiseness has conscience. What about racist people? Black
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Voice of My Zeal
By Dana I have no weapon i have no gun but i have pen I have no crowd , I have me alone, but i am brave Am not terrorist, am not dirty one but you are fakes I have no army i have no soldiers but i am bless I have a soul in
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Black shirt
By Dana I need a few balck shirts now I only have one and my mom’s gone I need a few more i need to change Who r u mom – where are you? I need to comb my hair but i can’t Come on mom do it for me, i need you After seven
Read on »Dana: Am alone in a faraway land without my mom
Yes, it’s a few days since I got my citizenship, and you cruel ones got together. You hated me and my mother too. She is gone now. Dana _________ Am alone at home Alone in Finland I cannot cry I am standing in front of you, my enemies, and telling that you are very cruel.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Helloless culture
By Dana Hello! Well yes, hello! Hello! Let me tell you about a helloless culture. What is wrong with greeting people anyway? In Finland saying hello seems very difficult. It looks like they’re afraid to say hello even if u told them hello over and over again…and i’m wondering how many times i have to take
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott تحریم
By Dana نه رفیق و خانواده چهره ها پر از افاده نه در و نه پنجره، راه مهر وموم و قفل و هم چاه نه کلید و رحمت و نور همه کس بگویدت زور تازیانه می زند هار دیو زشت موذی
Read on »Enough is enough! I’ve had it with you Finns!
By Dana Yesterday was a dark black day but a blessed one even if it brought so much sadness. A racist couldn’t kill who I am and yet again, like so many times before in my life, God helped me to overcome a very difficult situation. For you racists out there, and those who support
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Elixir – اکسیر
Elixir – اکسیر By Dana در این دنیای بی حد شرو ظالم خداوندا تویی عادل و عالم In this unlimited evil and cruel world Oh GOD u r the right one and sage به درگاهت شب و روز ای الها بنام هر دم و هر لحظه جانا In
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: A letter to Jesus عیسا سلام
By Dana عیسا سلام ای نرگس زیبای من، عیسی سلام طاير تقدیربی همتای من، عیسی سلام ارغوا ن بنشسته بر اورنگ، شاه مهربان آفتاب لایزال، کشتی و کشتیبان من، عیسی سلام یاسمین، حاذق به هر درد و فغان، شاه زمان شاهراه جاودان، درمانگر و درمان من،عیسی سلام رازقی، خّرم ز رویت هم زمین و آسمان،
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: تب Fever
By Dana زارم مکن،خوارم مکن،از غصه بیمارم مکن شلاق را از من جدا،زخمی و بر دارم مکن Don’t feel sorry for me, don’t degrade me, don’t make me feel any sicker from my sorrow Don’t whip me, don’t injure me, don’t send me to the gallows. دیو خموش تیره راخجلان و زندان میکنم آب خنک
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: A warning: Finland
By Dana خشم است خوراک مرد بیمار عاقل نرود پی بد احوال Anger is the food of sick men wiser men don’t feed off such feelings گر زخم زنی به جان نیکان جان تو شود نصیب دیوان If u stab a good human’s spirit ur spirit will end up being
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary:ما بی من شد We was without i
By Dana چشمه اشکم خدا خشکیده شد جمله شبهایم خدا پوسیده شد The river of my tears oh GOD was seared All my nights oh GOD were rotten آن دلاور یار پاک خاطرم در نگاه عاشقم ژولیده شد That brave holy friend of my memories Unkempt in my lover’s look بال و پر ده ای
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Poetic essay for tomatoes and cucumbers
By Dana در دام اگرافتادی، جنگ مکن بیهوده به جان خود وما رشک مکن If u fall in a trap, don’t fight back Vanity and envy won’t help you to be free آشی که تو خود پزی، اول تو خوری پس بر سر خود مزن، برو، خشم مکن The porridge u cook , first
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: ترکم مکن Don’t leave me
ای رازهای زندگی ترکم مکن، ای امید سبز ترکم مکن، ای ایمان ابدی با من بمان،ا ی آهنگ خوش صدایم پرواز کن، پرواز، مرا با خود ببر به دوردست هایی که نامش ایران است. به سرزمینی کی ریشه ام آنجا مانده است، به خانه ای که مادرم را دارد ، به اتاقی که پدرم
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: خود من Myself ***present to your inner child ***
بدیدم کودکی در کنج خانه پریشان خسته، اما پر ترانه I saw a child in the corner of the house Distracted, tired, but filled with songs بگفتا یک دم آرامی ندارم
***present to your inner child ***">Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Love
عشق می کوبد به دربت باز کن نور و معنا شو، بیا آواز کن Love bangs on ur door, open it – be light and meaningful, come into song عشق قوت می دهد سر زندگی باز کن آغوش خود همراه شو Love gives
Read on »An email from a woman immigrant: Jungle law in Finland
Some foreigners and immigrants give birth to babies near-constantly and therefore are unemployed. After 15, 10 or 7 years they enroll in a Finnish-language course and complain that they don’t learn a thing. They claim that Finnish is too difficult to learn. Some Finns are more than happy to hear that their langauge is too difficult
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: خواب زشت Dirty dream
By Dana سرزمین گریه من رعد و طوفانی شده قلب زیبای لطیفم سخت و بارانی شده The land where my tears fall is thundering and stormy My beautiful heart is now hard and rainy موج وحشت میفرستد سوی من هر حادثه قطره های اشک من خونین و گل مالی شده
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Mother and daughter دختر و مادر
Mother and daughter دختر و مادر By Dana شب و روز منی ای مادر من خیالم فکر من اندیشه تن Ur my night and day oh mother mine My imagination, mind, thought and spirit همه هوش و حواسم فکر و ذکرم دعا تک خواهشم بوی بهشتم All intelligence, my attention, thought and mention Prayer,
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary – Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law نیش قانون
Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law نیش قانون By Dana تو میگریشن پلیس تنها بلایی تو میگریشن پلیس بد نا قلایی U migration police the only pain U migration police r underhanded تو میگریشن پلیس ظالم جفاکار تو میگریشن پلیس زشت و طلبکار U migration police are cruel, bring anguish U migration police are ugly
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: غریبه Garibeh (stranger, wanderer)
غریبه Garibeh (stranger, wanderer) By Dana کجایی اسمان پر ستارم کجا خورشید خانم شیرین نگارم Where r u my sky full of stars Where r u Ms. Sun, u sweet darling کجا ای مادر زیبای نازم کجا ای مهربانم دلنوازم دلنوازم Where r u my beautiful cute mother Where oh my kind, my hospitable
Read on »An immigrant’s life in Finland:* Dana misses her family
Things may get worse before they improve for Dana since Christian Democrat minister of the interior, Päivi Räsänen, announced plans last year to tighten further family reunification rules.
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