Best Foreigner Poems

Vania Konstantinova was born, lives and works in Sofia. She graduated Classical Ballet in
her native town and in Petersburg as well as Polish Philology in Sofia University and
Jagiellonian University, Krakow. She's co-author of the poetic book Four Cycles (along
with Bozhidar Pangelov). Her collection of short...

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You have stolen my soul O foreigner
I have lost self-control O foreigner

You have given sweet dream O foreigner
My passion turns extreme O foreigner

You are so beautiful O foreigner
You are so warm and cool O foreigner

I am impressed so much O foreigner
I long for your sweet...

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Useless and awful, 
Far away from beautiful,
Not a friend, not a foe,
Minding my life and my woe,
Down with the fever of a nympho,
I cried ho… ho… ho,
When came your eyes toward pointing at my low,
Darling unleashed into the jungle of prejudice and honey and silk...

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I have one and only one profit: 
I am looking for 
A particular type 
Of eyes....

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Seafaring Foreigner 

In steerage on a steamer with
Figs conceiving in Vesuvian soil 
Hidden in a pot of a sturdy trunk
Made of hope and adventure. Fear of
Sights unseen and joys unbeknownst
Of sons and daughters yet.

Hazy canyons of skyscraping giants 
Overshadow brick row houses
Hard at work, ethnic...

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In a cutter he sailed
This tanned foreign man
Muscled and handsome
As i watched him step on my island

His long brown hair
Mm, shoulder length
I went weak at the knees
Losing my strength

The evening drew in
As i sat on the beach
Admiring his ship
Craving his reach

When i heard a voice
Saying...

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It is a pity how people
Treat me down here
They say I am a sojourner
This is not my home

I laugh though in pity
Remembering it is no home
Everyone is a sojourner
Waiting to hence home

Dust to dust home we be
Clay we are too hard to believe
Flesh to bone...

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A foreigner in my own life
A passport not yet stamped
The language that is spoken
One I don’t understand

I slipped across the border
An undetected alien
No guide that can help
Here in this strange land

Maybe I needed a visa
I should have thought this through
I thought it would be easier
Didn't...

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En route trapped in transit in Turkey
   loopholes, restrictions, oppositions and
   unfamiliar faces, language barriers in a
  foreign sovereignty, disoriented, feeling
   Out of place amongst hired help, ill-
    treatment doesn't feel so hospitable
  ...

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Let me sing a foreign song
To the hears of my foreign friend
Let me dance with foreign moves
To the beat of my foreign art

She said she believed a foreign friend
That came far from a foreign land
She speaks calm to the foreign quest
And two foreigners look like...

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In transit to Africa destination delayed, 
trapped  in Turkey loopholes restrictions, 
Oppositions, unfamiliar faces, language barriers a nightmare,  disoriented,  feeling out
of place amongst hired help especially at a airport,  ill treatment doesn't  feel so hospitable,  lack of comprehension enroute
trapped...

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There's this nasty lady living right 
by ours
A cranky old mare holed up next to our house 
Her garden is minging and her blinds 
are a lot worse
She acts dead weird, I reckon she's proper mental 
Her knees are knobby and her walk is
a bit...

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The Foreigner

What does one do when your pension is small?
He lived in an industrial town in England not green and pleasant.
Rows of brick houses, a tiny front yard too narrow for a car.
He could not thrive here; going back to Sweden was out
too expensive he...

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What he bore for me
was at a price of what cost?
This stranger an foreigner
he died at Calvary.

This stranger to make me his friend,
a foreigner that shared his home.
At a great cost his life he paid.
Great Stranger, I worship and fall at your feet.
No longer estranged...

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     Little Jackie Foreigner
     Was not born here
     Now he’s in Queens, a New Yorker… 

     He says, ‘Vote for Mamdani
     He’s sure to protect...

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