Short Foreign Poems

Short Foreign Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Foreign by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Foreign by length and keyword.


Premium Member Foreign Cakes

An Austrian sachertorte
Swedish polynees
A Canadian date cake
Polish focworki
Russian rhubard cakes
It's party
time!
Form: Epulaeryu


Stands For

for us all she stands
flag presented to trembling hands…
shallow graves in foreign lands


Robb A. Kopp
© Nov.13.2012
war
Form: Senryu

AMINA

Ameituliza nafsi yangu
Mkuu wa yote duniani
Iwapo nitapoteza njia
Najua penzi lake 'tanipata
Anivite kwake, aniite wake
god
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Foreign Hearts

Amidst their poor land
Where their roots born
Ancestors' cherished land
Their identities shifting
Became foreign hearts.
Form: Tanka

Thief In Darkness

The thief had nothing
Darkness a foreign country
Desire made him bold
The moon a true mendicant
The thief a false supplicant
Form: Tanka


Inhuman War

THE soldier nvades
foreign land...
Dead or alive
he laughs and cries...
alive or dead
nature withers
and humanity suffers...!

International Relations

There was a foreign-looking chap
Who held a pussy on his lap
He stroked her fur
And heard her purr
But she had to draw him a map
Form: Limerick

Culture 2

Native Languages
Shunning  Dooms
Cultural And National Identity.
Preference To Foreign Languages
Invasion Of Strange Influences!
Form: Cinquain

Hypocrite

Tonight I feel like foreign waste In spoken words that I can’t taste
*Bite Size Poem #11 Contest- 2nd Place*
Form: Rhyme

Trump Should Divest

Trump Should Divest

For Trump what is best
Foreign ventures do divest
Bring lost jobs back west.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Whereinthehellisivordavies

So where in the hell did he go?
Can't be straight to hell you know
must be tucked in a foreign land
writing a book as fast as he can!
© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Truly Free

As my body slumbers my spirit soars
touching battle fields and foreign wars
my dreams relax the whole of me
astral travel is truly free

Slower Pace

Speed
Is a foreign concept
In the cool mountain air
As patience and observance
Take their rightful place
In the slower pace of 
Enjoyment

Inside Out

The past is a forgotten country,
tomorrow a foreign land
traveling inward I leave today
—free of times command

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Math and Me

math is a foreign language I do not speak
I do not embrace
I run from
I do not want
I do not need
I scoff at
I do not honor
I do not like

Premium Member trumpfinger

Trump’s plan for oil—a humdinger
Borrowed from Auric Goldfinger
Make foreign crude stale
While ours is for sale
At higher prices that linger
Form: Limerick

The Shield

Captain's America shield
Loves all the American people
It protects his country from
Danger and a take over
From villains foreign and domestic
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member A Foreign Body

Purse your lips
As you swing your hips
But don't swing your hips too high
Unpurse your lips so that you can scream
When your hip hits you in the eye
Form: Rhyme

He Sold His Ancestral Land

He sold his ancestral plot
located in free Africa
years later relatives searched
failed to obtain a plot
in foreign land faraway
to bury his remains

Premium Member Foreign Food

The Martians invaded our world Their plan very quickly unfurled On English cuisine They went very green And then doubled over and hurled
Form: Limerick

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’
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Anger is foreign to me

I don't feel angry much.
Betrayal stings, I end up feeling disappointed.
Disappointed in them and myself.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2026
Form: Other

A Poem by Someone Insane

To someone insane:
Hello, I am not insane--
Though--
Ignore I write in English--
Comprehensibly--

I say I am still unfamiliar with such a foreign matter.

Foreign War

Foreign War

How can we even contemplate 
Fighting any Foreign War
While the War on the Home Front
Is still raging before
Your very own Sons and Daughters
war

Remembrance

Today we remember the fallen
on foreign fields that were trodden
     by armies at odds.
     Our wreaths laid on sods
will ensure they are never forgotten.
Form: Limerick

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