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Foreign Language Poems - Poems about Foreign Language


Premium Member Speaking a Foreign Language
When I speak a foreign language I cross my eyes and dot my teas Little wonder I substitute ~ ‘Thank you’ for ‘Please’ ...

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Categories: foreign language, confusion, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Foreign language
Listening to my grandma speak Dutch wondering what kind of language it was...

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Categories: foreign language, language,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member When Love Commands the Train Fulfills
What Love commands the train fulfills, The six thirty bounds to Coney Island Where the green Ubers awaits the passengers Morning greetings, (Urdu) of few words, were the Pakistan, rules Mermaid Street with the neon green Were too mama? where too, two dollars: A repeat routine for most of us, Whether you’re a...

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Categories: foreign language, absence, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
L'Etrangere
Ma langue française n'est pas assez bonne pour te dire ce que je veux tellement à dire. Les mots sont nécessaires pour tout l'amour, surtout pour le français: il va tiédir sans confessions très chaudes. Les belles paroles dédiées à ta beauté et les mots doux entre bisous allument l’aureole heureuse autour d'une tête de...

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Categories: foreign language, language, love,
Form: Sonnet
Love Is a Foreign Language
Who ever came up with falling in love, Letting one person be the apple of our eye, the one who makes us smile, the light and joy of our world. Who made hearts so fragile, easily shattered with a harsh word or action. Who had made falling in love a cycle, one no one can...

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Categories: foreign language, boyfriend, crush, first love,
Form: Free verse



A Foreign Language
My lips are sealed Tightened by pain Locked with secrets Perhaps I should tell you... My life and my memories, My troubles and struggles. I could teach you a thing or two, Respect, loyalty and class, The 1950's and the 1960's. If you want to know my dear- Watch closely. Look beyond the tears in my eyes, Translate the tremble of my hands That is...

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Categories: foreign language, absence, age, body, cry,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Credit For Foreign Language
Merde! Nous sommes a la plage Is all I can remember how to say. Merde! Was back in the (high-schoolish) day when French was all the rage. Merde! Nous sommes a la plage. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HA! And I actually got admitted to college!...

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Categories: foreign language, education,
Form: Triolet
[her Foreign Language]
her foreign language rubbed my chest to empty my lungs of recent smog. glazed eyes begging her to close them. to help. each word danced its rhythm, silhouetting mockingbirds pace their movement into my ears. vulnerable lids try not to shut. makes it...

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Categories: foreign language, love, mother, son, for
Form: Free verse
Now a Foreign Language
Sanskrit sweeping bronze and spine riddled there when you were mine underneath the spice and sun cinnamon skin and sleepy rum Now the wind has blown the words riddled once and then disturbed blown to dust and settled seas salt and brined the lurid breeze....

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Categories: foreign language, lost love,
Form: Couplet
Foreign Language
Have you heard any body speak in foreign language, and compared it to the growl of a tiger, or even the bark of a dog, both weigh the same, they are unintelligible sounds, the only difference is that, you know it is the human, who spake with self interest in full, and the animal, with his limited self interest, and it is the self interest, which...

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Categories: foreign language, inspirational, life, philosophy, self,
Form: Free verse

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