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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’

Categories: foreign language, confusion, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme

Foreign language

Listening to my grandma speak Dutch wondering what kind of language it was

Categories: foreign language, language,
Form: Monoku

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

Categories: foreign language, absence, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

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

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

Categories: foreign language, absence, age, body, cry,
Form: Elegy

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!

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

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.

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

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