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  by Guero Davila 1 month ago

  Like Poetry? Like Football? Try this! http://writing-community.writersworkshop.co.uk/groups/profile/5464
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  by Tony 2 months ago

  Oh, btw, for all recently joined members, It's actually much better to start a new topic (see Forum - Create topic, above) for each new poem you want to post. Puting it on the wall, here, means it soon scrolls down and is lost, and comments can get intermingled with unrelated ones. If it's in its own Topic it remains accessable and all the comments stay with it.
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  by Tony 2 months ago

  I see, GDQ. I couldn't 'determine' the original, which is why I said 'appears' to be the original. I took the one you posted first (in Spanish) to be the original, especially as your second post was headed 'Translation'. I'm afraid I have no Spanish, so I can't do that version justice. It just appeared to me to have only the two rhyming lines - the first and third of the second stanza (Can 'nariz' be rhymed with 'eligio' and 'pagina' with 'rabia'? As I say, I'm sorry don't know the pronounciation, so perhaps they can.) It's quite an achievement to write bilingually simultaneously - and quite a unique area of expertise to be able to lay claim to :-)
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  by GhostDogQ 2 months ago

  I had intended to post the following to began to show a bit of breadth, but wanted to address Tony's post first.
  
  All eyes fall upon his confident, charismatic stroll; all feel his presence; all aware of the room's stares. A simultaneous stroke of chord and light, tightened nerves to which her soul vibrates. His eyes hold her fears at dusk like closely guarded profit from her gentle, generous spirit. Her eyes an easel rifling his shoulder, all women having evolved from her. Her island forest, open and enclose him like a rare butterfly between its leaves. Something inside them broke subtly, like a vein, magical, magnetic, pallets quenched. Drawn to one dance, one marriage, one life together like chocolate and Chianti.
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  by GhostDogQ 2 months ago

  Not sure what you've determined to be "the original." I wrote the "translation" and the "original" simultaneously, and my rhyme scheme is evident within both, but Spanish tends to be a bit easier to rhyme than English. To be clear, the poem(s) were written in response to a bilingual woman's question, "Why do you identify with Cyrano?" I fancy myself an expert at producing a poem that is in response to a woman's question in English & Spanish.
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  by Tony 2 months ago

  It's odd that the translation rhymes (to some extent), but what would appear to be the original doesn't.
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  by GhostDogQ 2 months ago

  Translation:
  
  Letter to Roxanne
  
  I am Cyrano
  Forever cursed by love.
  
  Yet my protuberance
  Is not my nose,
  Nor my exuberance
  For her whom I chose.
  
  But my great ugliness
  As is writ upon this page
  Not my wit, but my rage!
  
  My esteemed and dear Roxanne,
  I fall upon Love's sabre
  At your request.
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  by GhostDogQ 2 months ago

  This poem is written from the perspective of a Spanish speaking Cyrano de Bergerac. Let me know if translation is needed.
  
  Una Carta a Roxanne
  
  
  Yo soy Cyrano,
  Malditio por siempre amor
  
  Sin embargo, mi protuberancia
  No es mi nariz,
  Ni mi exuberancia
  Para ella quien eligio;
  Pero mi gran fealdad
  Como esta escrito un esta pagina
  No mi ingenio, pero mi rabia!
  
  Mi estimada y querida Roxanne,
  Me caigo en el Amor de sabre
  En su solicitud
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  by The Alien 2 months ago

  Has anyone out there thought about our feet. We just take them for granted in spite of all they do for us every day. And do we treat them properly? And what about our poor toes, how much attention do they get? So, Ithought it's about time someone wrote a poem about them.
  
  WIGGLY TOES
  Wiggly toes
  wiggly toes
  why we’ve got ten
  nobody knows
  although with both hands full
  they can help kick open a door
  and the clever ones
  for no apparent reason
  can pick up a loose pen from the floor
  but it’s plain to see
  they can also be
  on close inspection
  a continual source
  of annoying infection
  and checking for this
  can sometimes be tricky
  when some of them
  seem to be pointing
  in the entirely wrong direction
  and what’s the point
  of all those joints
  we know
  big toe
  bending at ninety degrees
  sometimes has the knack
  and if you squeeze and pull hard enough
  you can even make
  some of them crack
  and yet I do suppose
  as every toe knows
  when both legs set out
  on some arduous route
  they can depend on their toes
  on the end of each foot
  to be ever ready
  to keep them both steady
  by bending their joints
  at various degrees
  even though they may be suffering
  form arthritic disease
  with no complaints
  not even squabbling
  thus preventing
  their proud upright owner
  from suffering
  any sensation of wabbling.
  in each quintet
  it could be said
  that Big Toe
  is the appointed head
  for, the three in the middle
  don’t seem to know
  where to go
  or what to do
  waiting in line
  as if they’re in some sort of queue
  and what about little piggy
  right at the very end
  try as he may
  he can’t really bend
  like his four other companions
  who when going on walkies
  display a modum of agility
  and altogether
  have more flexibility
  whilst alone poor little piggy
  can do very little
  and looks rather harassed
  no wonder he curls under
  apparently quite embarrassed
  so who can blame them
  for generally being
  unhappy with their lot
  in old sweaty socks and shoes
  getting unbearably hot
  their owners insistently insisting
  on a long daily trot
  but when all cries for help
  all seem to fail
  they rightly seek their revenge
  with an ingrowing nail
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  by Tony 3 months ago

  Dis anybody else notice Infinite Author's blog about how to write poetry?
  
  http://writing-community.writersworkshop.co.uk/members/profile/4693/blog-view/blog_4639.html
  
  She gives some very sensible guidlines.