Expat Poems - Poems about Expat

Trading Rooms

...

2 weeks x 2

future. that’s what I put in notes 
to remind myself how often 
I’ll be able to see her and pretend
I’m easy to find, same 
as when we were kids trading rooms

on a regular b...

Categories: expat, family, i miss you,
Form: Free verse

Flight To Freedom

...We flew a million miles in eighteen hours
Amongst the cotton ball clouds
To a new land and new adventure
To do whatever we want ,whenever and whatever’s allowed

Plane travel is not my favourite...

Categories: expat, adventure, flying, freedom, humor,
Form: Rhyme

London

...London
Past meets present meets future,
Smoothed pavement meets uneven cobblestone, water filtering through the divots accumulated from consistently dull weather days,
Tall buildings, cathedrals, ...

Categories: expat, 12th grade, city, london,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

X-Ray Oscar

...(Pentagon E-ring office—executive officer knocks & enters—General motions him in)

XO,
Explain
examinees...

                              Examinee
                              X-11,...

Categories: expat, military, poetry,
Form: Alliteration

Pangs of Exile

...Pangs of exile


In the season of the fallen leaf
Pangs of exile, pangs of grief
Should I join the expat web?
I will still receive The Sheaf
Pangs of exile, pangs of grief

I listen to a for...

Categories: expat, emotions, feelings, time,
Form: Rhyme

What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About

...Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...

Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshi...

Categories: expat, abuse, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Bio

Date Syrup

...Dark as departure 
and sweet 
as reunion, it’s a 
romantic 
syrup resembling
an expat’s 
life. A sublime 
state of
sweetness like a 
wife’s wait.  

It’s forbidden to
a diabetic 
patient...

Categories: expat, life,
Form: Free verse

Nola

...there is a street in new orleans
it as a certain name
girls in feathers men they drink
the whole lot down the drain

there is a drug in new orleans
the strongest one can get
heavy users everyw...

Categories: expat, city, farewell, metaphor, missing,
Form: Quatrain

Expat Desert Commute

...Daily drive fraught with stress
One wrong move what a mess

Looking left, looking right
Praying neither will bring fright

All seems clear, so off we go
Straight and fast, avoiding foe

All ...

Categories: expat, car, fear,
Form: Couplet

Sajan's Sorrows

...His hopes take off like an Indian 
                           Airlines aircraft.


It’s a shelter – from the hundred 
                           degrees Celsius
issues – that Sajan seeks in the...

Categories: expat, life,
Form: Free verse

As Days Cool

...As the day cools

It is getting a bit lonely here
as I`m  not a member of the expat set
and my Portuguese friends have died 
or moved into town, living in a village that
lack what elderly peopl...

Categories: expat, clothes, color, community, confusion,
Form: Blank verse

Migrating Birds

...Bonuses have shrunk. 
Two ambitions now remain:
make Board or expat.

Sun-kissed and well-fed 
migrating birds, time to time 
reminisce of home. 

Open foreign minds,
gated local dwellings,
...

Categories: expat, home, money,
Form: Haiku

The Different Teachers At a Saudi School

...If you ask me, who are my favorite
Teachers at school –well, I’d say there are six;
All of them are good friends too, you know –they’re
Like a box of assorted chocolates!

Miss Latifa is Black A...

Categories: expat, funny, school, teacher, together,
Form: Rhyme