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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Cultural >> ID #1396617  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
The Immigrant
Boonstra poem for Pond Poetry contest.
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THE IMMIGRANT

innocent eyes admire your world; however, you see an unwelcome foreigner
indignation envelops me as I contemplate your modern world
I struggle to communicate, but you mock my accent
my native customs, you carelessly ridicule
transplanted by choice, yet
trapped, isolated
alone

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