Get Your Premium Membership

Best Culture Shock Poems


Culture Shock
I saw it in a film: his city is beautiful.
Snow is everywhere, the trees are crowned
with it, and ice skims the harbor,
frosts ships, going nowhere. Even when
he held me, there was ice in his heart,

Ice in the pale blue of the washed-out
sky beyond his closed...

Continue reading...
© Nola Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Culture Shock
Building a bridge 
between two cultures,
is like swimming against the tide.

the up and down current,
often leads to a knock down.

to bridge the gap between two worlds,
is an encounter not so pleasant.

the culture shock,
quite difficult to encapsulate....

Continue reading...
Categories: culture shock, africa, analogy, art, career,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Culture Shock Rimas Dissolutas
I like to stay extremely vague,
born  alongside a culture shock;
Hype built by the publications,
a cinematic adventure;

Try but you will not guess my age;
People lined up around the block,
standing waiting with such patience
to race  into the movie theater;

New breed of film expectations,
we were both...

Continue reading...
Categories: culture shock, birthday, emotions, memory, mystery,
Form: Other

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Culture Shock Welcomed
culture shock welcomed
so weird taking it easy
been needing this long

skies are fully blue
time is my New Friend Again
calm now existing

happy disbelief
like writing with my right hand
change medicinal

blood pressure normal
fluid in my legs now gone
peeing away stress...

Continue reading...
© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, beautiful, blessing, change,
Form: Free verse
How To Evangelize Where Pigs Roam Free
Do not get down and dirty, if you are found evangelizing where pigs, chicken, dogs ... roam free....

Continue reading...
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, 12th grade, africa, animal,
Form: Monoku
He Does Not Stop
I write blank verse (justly)
Enjoying challenges (unjustly)
Good or evil (evil usually)
Not good myself (unusually)
But my God is GOOD (always)...

Continue reading...
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: culture shock, africa, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Blank verse




Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry