Languages Poems

Spiritual possession

Through an opal window I saw a cloud,
changing colors from blue to orange to red,
like a burning fire.
I was swept off my feet,
floating on a bridge between this world and the next.

My body no longer in my possession,
I hear voices beyond my choices,
juggled on a hawser like a puppet on strings ~
my entire being a
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Categories: languages, fantasy, heaven, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAround the World

One day I took the subway
and I went around the world
From one car to another 
a new nation’s flag unfurled
The train took off from Brooklyn
and I hopped on at Times Square
and by the time that I got home
I’d been most everywhere

The couple that spoke Yiddish,
and hurried on their way
were deep in conversation
which she ended with,
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Categories: languages, language,
Form: Rhyme


The many languages of black voices

We dont have to use our voice to scream
Because a voice isn't just words
It's art, it's our presence, it's how we exist
It's being unapologetically black

Our presence is like the rain after a drought
And the rain nourishes the ground
It's like walking into a room and it's brought back to life
Where once was darkness, has now been
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Categories: languages, discrimination, jealousy, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThere are signs in Israel in three languages pointing to the temple in Jerusalem etc

Recently this watch woman, noticed on a couple of Christian pod casts and CBN,
Jews are putting up road signs in three different languages, Hebrew, Arabic and
English.  Tom, of the Watchman River channel compared it to,"the signs that they
use to show us the way to state parks but they have no official status yet."

What else
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Categories: languages, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberThe five languages of love

My girlfriend Barbara one day introduced me to the five languages of love. I was in a relationship dilemna at the time and was hopeful it would shed much needed light.

I thought surely I could figure out which language I exhibited, but more importantly at the time I desperately wanted to identify which love language
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Categories: languages, giving, happiness, heart, introspection,
Form: Haibun


Premium MemberRo Manse Languages - Poriticary Incollect Rimelick

  Ro manse languages were once all the rage
  But Mandarin's now taken center stage ~
     Flankry, I can't stand it
     The Chinese are bandits ~
  It's rike leceiving kick in reft libcage
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Categories: languages, change, giggle, language, word
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberBasel

I am walking around Basel
The city not the herb
I’m not doing a Basel
Because Basel is not a verb

The streets spew tongue twisters
From mouths of many shapes
Beautiful river vistas
With succulent seedless grapes.

In a few hours I wish to emigrate
Set up my life in this efficient city
After a while I understand
It’s not that good, it’s a pity

I’m
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Categories: languages, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLANGUAGES OF NATIONS

What where HOW can we be we
Speak then cleave to fair flare FEAR?
Urwa we do DO WE SPEAK discrete
We deem how we speak! Unknown 
Language LUST dear DEMIER we
Share? Is this some Language such
As care WICK the FEAR this gist then
Flick the GLITCH of this aah dis 
DEIR who cares We have CHANGED
those words is
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Categories: languages, allusion, beach, business,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberMy Polyglot Pen

My pen writes in English
My pen writes in French
Mon stylo écrit en français
My pen writes in Spanish
Mi pluma escribe en español
My pen writes in Italian
La mia penna scrive in italiano
My pen writes in Portuguese
Minha caneta escreve em portugues
My pen writes in Creole
Plim mwen ekri an kreyòl
My pen writes in Latin
Calamum meum latine scribit
Believe me, friends,
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Categories: languages, class, freedom, inspiration, literature,
Form: Free verse

Languages Are Important

Languages are important its worth learning 
How nice it would be to understand other cultures
To communicate and converse with others in a variety of ways
Languages are diverse and unique in so many ways 
Languages are informative, expressive and directive in nature
Languages is another way of us getting along
Languages is like the rose of Heaven
Falling in
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Categories: languages, appreciation, culture, language,
Form: Free verse

Love Speaks All Languages

Love Speaks All Languages


‘Je t’aime’ he whispered with passion
By the Seine with the moon bright above
It sounded so very romantic
French, they say, is the language of love

‘Ti amo’ declared the young Roman
As he courted his lady so sweet
Mario, though, was a real gigolo
And Maria he’d met on the street!

‘Ich liebe dich’ said Fritz to his
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Categories: languages, love,
Form: Rhyme

Languages Poetrix

Oh these languages... 
strange, cultured and gallant
we need to discuss all them...
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Categories: languages, allusion, analogy, appreciation, language,
Form: Light Verse

Dead Languages Or Learning How To Speak

All my life I grew up stuttering
the words, the slang terms
the sentences
everything I say
coming from out of my mouth
always too complicated
for other people to comprehend
they all think
I am speaking
some dead language
like Latin, or Norse or Esperanto
or maybe Ancient Greek
or even talking backwards
while learning and forming
a whole different language
all on my own
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Categories: languages, language,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Love's Love Languages

The love language of my deeply beloved love and companion, 
whom I miss when were apart,
me waiting like a dog at the window;
my partner, my life, my rock when all times get rough, my tool girl, behind which, lies the mysterious power;
that dog again breathing deeply the odors of hope through that window with barely
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Categories: languages, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEulogy For Programming Languages

Good old COBOL's stubborn, sure
High-level FORTRAN still endures

   FOXPRO, SNOBAL, ALGOL, and BAL
   Did not compute, that's why they fell
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Categories: languages, eulogy, giggle, technology,
Form: Epigram

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