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Best Culture Shock Poems

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Culture Shock
I saw it in a film: his city is beautiful.
Snow is everywhere, the trees are crowned
with it, and ice skims the harbor,
frosts ships, going nowhere....

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© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, angst,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Freedom Exposure
“… The 1986 revolution in the Philippines … brought an end to the martial law imposed by Marcos’ regime in 1972, and saw the accession...

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Categories: culture shock, blessing, christian, faith, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
The Light of Love
Do not tell me anymore of mythical mermaids lurking
In the fine gradient of the sea, eyes heavy with a snaring desire,
A monalisa smile framed on...

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Categories: culture shock,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ole Poppycock
Ole Poppycock said the British clock maker.
While setting his alarm clock which was the building block
of his foundation.He purchased penny stock at four o'clock
and future...

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Categories: culture shock, humor, nonsense, satire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Shopping Cart
I'm driving down the street
Taking in the sight & sounds.
I see a disturbing sight
A family pushing a shopping cart around.
Their clothes are dirty
They look like...

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Categories: culture shock, community, courage, sad,
Form: Bio



Nothing Is Easy
Nothing is easy.
Looking for God and His truths, His spirituality.
It's not for all to know.
No matter were you travel or go.

God's Holy Bible.
Is necessary for...

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Categories: culture shock, faith, world,
Form: Rhyme
Bardstown Road At a Glance
The old, the new barely meet on the street of Bardstown road, yet diversity so unique, from Cherokee to the rarity, stepping forth in time...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, abuse, age, america, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
My Life
early 50's
don't mean maybe
here i come
slap the baby
hear me screaming
now i'm breathing
the proud parents
really beaming
mid december
it is chilly
named me mike 
instead of billy
adolescence
before you know...

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Categories: culture shock, adventure, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Northern Exposure
Set in Cicely in Alaska
running from 1990 to 1995
centres around Dr Joel Fleischman
star Rob Morrow brought him alive

This a real quirky town Cicely
characters of every...

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Categories: culture shock, celebrity, community, life, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Riffs In Time
Two soldiers. One fancies himself a punk rocking soldier of fortune and the other, nicknamed hillbilly, because he lost his shoes, they plan a trip...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, addiction, america, crazy, culture,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Separation Anguish
Dread of separation anxiety
Anguish I felt with certainty
Yet due to childhood’s knowledge-obscurity
I could not fathom its reality.

Such awful feeling I experienced when my mother left...

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Categories: culture shock, absence, death, emotions, farewell,
Form: Narrative
Searching
You say I AM that person you've been searching for,
Your life partner I'd love to be.
But how? When I dont know who I am,
what I'm...

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Categories: culture shock, journey,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Dread of Separation
Facing struggles of separation anxiety
such darkness midst anguish I felt with certainty
yet due to childhood’s knowledge-obscurity
I could not fathom its reality.

I dreaded being far from...

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Categories: culture shock, anxiety, character, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Trump and Big Battle Scenes
Trump and Big Battle Scenes

Trump seems to like big battle scenes
Where everything is blown to smithereens
And other atrocious things he does enjoy
Apparently to all of...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Couplet
The Story of My Life
early 50's
don't mean maybe
here i come
slap the baby
hear me screaming
now i'm breathing
the proud parents
really beaming
mid december
it is chilly
named me mike 
instead of billy
adolescence
before you know...

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Categories: culture shock, birthday, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs