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Thursday
Apr292004

A little bad poetry

As I was going through my archives the other day, I came across a few of my poems that I wrote in college (you know, everyone is a poet when nineteen). I've tried my hand at translating a couple of them into English and found it to be extremely difficult (mostly due to the lack of ability to express myself in a foreign landuage), so I took it as a challenge, and attempted a translation of the shortest and least rhymed one. Here's the result:



Your face is a ripe peach
On it rottenness has no place
Very, very boring face...

1995

It has lost a bit of meaning and rhythm, but it's better rhymed now :-)


Update: Russian version of the poem could be found here.


Reader Comments (1)

hah! i like it. little poetry is the best.

August 8, 2004 | Unregistered Commenterbritta

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